History lesson for the feast day of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. A window at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Middletown, New York, depicts Our Lady appearing to St. Simon Stock in 1251 ...

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The brown scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. (Credit: Carmel of the Most Holy Trinity, Notting Hill.) Listen In a secular age, believers need all the help they can get. In a culture that ignores ...

My grandmother wore one. My lovely bride wears one. I carry one in my shirt pocket. Once they were almost ubiquitous in the Catholic world, so common that I would see them peeking from the necks of ...

Throughout the years many confraternities, churches and chapels have been dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel. The devotion towards Our Lady of Mount Carmel and the Holy Scapular dates back more ...

When the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to the English Carmelite, St. Simon Stock, she carried the Carmelite scapular in her hand and told him: "This shall be the privilege for you and for all the ...