Carmelites

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The Carmelites (Ordo Carmelitarum , abbreviation OCarm) are the female branch of the Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel , a mendicant order, founded in the 15th century .

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In 1452, the Beguines from Geldern , who already had a Carmelite priest as a spiritual director , turned to the Provincial Carmelite Chapter in Cologne with the request that they be admitted to the Carmel, since the cardinal Nikolaus von Kues had issued a decree in 1451 that all female clergymen Communities that did not live according to one of the old rules of the order would have to join one of the existing orders. Johannes Soreth , the provincial superior, asked for permission from Pope Nicholas V , who gave it in his bull Cum nulla fidelium .

From Germany, the Carmelites quickly spread to France, Italy and Spain. In Germany there are still two convents of the older branch of the Carmelite Order, namely

There are Carmelite monasteries of the old observance in Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Finland, Hungary, the United Kingdom and Ireland, Sweden, Portugal, Italy, Israel, Nicaragua, Brazil, Peru, Kenya, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Indonesia, the Dominican Republic and the United States. There are also four other Carmelite convents in which Carmelite hermits live according to their own constitutions: in Chester, New Jersey, in Florence, Tavullia and in S. Martino alla Palma, Italy.

Discalced Carmelites

The hll. Teresa of Ávila and John of the Cross founded the reform branch of the Discalced (Ordo Carmelitarum Discalceatorum) with the in the 16th century . With around 41,000 sisters, the Discalced Carmelites are the largest contemplative women's order in the world.

Congregations and Third Orders

Since the 19th century, in addition to the cloistered Carmelites, various communities have developed that are based on the rules of the order of the Carmel and are in some cases also active in the health, education and school service:

  • the Sisters of Mary of Carmel
  • the Carmelites of the Divine Heart of Jesus founded by Maria Tauscher (Carmelitae a Divino Corde Jesu, DCJ)
  • the Sisters of the Regulated Third Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel with mother house in Luxembourg
  • The Carmelites of Divine Love (CDA) are based in Taben-Rodt on the Saar. The congregation was founded in 1923 in Dahlem in the Diocese of Trier and is under episcopal law. The sisters ran a children's home in Taben-Rodt, and later a boarding school with a vocational school and elementary school. In the only house of the congregation, the Propstey St. Josef, lived by six sisters until 2015. The boarding school (an institution of child and youth welfare), the elementary and secondary school and the Catholic kindergarten have now been handed over to the Pallottines .
  • the Johannessisters of Maria Königin CSJ with mother house in Leutesdorf
  • the Congregação das Irmãs Carmelitas da Divina Providência in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  • the Irmas Missionarias Carmelits de Jesús in Cajazeiras, Paraibo, Brazil
  • the Kongregasi Putri Karmel in Malang, Indonesia
  • the Istituto di Nostra Signora del Carmelo in Rome, Italy
  • the Suore Carmelitane delle Grazie in Bologna, Italy
  • the Suore Carmelitane Missionarie di S. Teresa del Bambino Gesù in Rome, Italy
  • the Carmelite Sisters of Our Lady with motherhouse in Dumaguete City in the Philippines
  • the Hermanas Carmelitas del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús in Madrid, Spain
  • the Hermanas de la Virgen María del Monte Carmelo in Madrid, Spain
  • the Corpus Christi Carmelites in Tunapuna , Trinidad and Tobago
  • the Congregation of Our Lady of Mount Carmel with mother house in Lacombe, Louisiana, USA
  • the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm with parent company in Germantown, New York, USA
  • the Hermanas Carmelitas de Madre Candelaria in Caracas, Venezuela
  • the Handmaids of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Mutare, Zimbabwe
  • the Carmelite Sisters of Charity (CCV).

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