Optional Memorial
Our Lady of Mount Carmel
- Feast day
- July 16
Patron of
- the Carmelite Order
Life
This memorial honors the Blessed Virgin Mary under her title of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, patroness of the Carmelite Order, which traces its origins to hermits living on Mount Carmel in the Holy Land in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. According to Carmelite tradition, Mary appeared to Saint Simon Stock and gave him the brown scapular, a devotion that later spread throughout the Church.
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