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Sunday, May 20, 2012

Carmelite Origins


Icon of Saint Albert of Jerusalem (left) and
Saint Brocard (right) on Mount Carmel.


Icon written by Sister Petra Clare, a Benedictine hermit living in Scotland.


Sister Petra Clare with one of the icons she had written.

The icon above depicts Saint Albert giving the Carmelite 'way of life' (Rule document) to Saint Brocard on Mount Carmel... (more).


St. Simon Stock. A Kentish man who became Prior General of the Order in the 1250s and who died in Bordeaux, France, in 1265. Our tradition associates him with a strong devotion to the Mother of God.
From: the British Province of Carmelite Friars.