Our Lady on Mount Carmel
Our Lady on Mount Carmel (also from Mount Carmel ) is an honorary title of the Blessed Mother as the patron saint of the Order of the Carmelites . The first Carmelites lived as hermits on Mount Carmel in the Holy Land . The chapel they built was dedicated to Our Lady. The title's del Monte Carmelo was also slipped into del Camino , and then del Carmen .
Remembrance Day and Scapular Festival
The feast day of Our Lady on Mount Carmel on July 16 is first attested in 1386 in English Carmelite monasteries as a festival of the Order on July 17. In 1595 the celebration of this day of remembrance was made possible by the Vatican Congregation for Rites outside the order, in 1726 it was approved by Pope Benedict XIII. introduced for the whole Catholic Church .
This day of remembrance is also popularly known as the Scapular Festival . This name is derived from the scapular, a part of the order's habit . The festival was particularly significant because of its association with the brown scapular . This sacramental is based on a vision of St. Simon Stock , a superior general of the Carmelites, to whom the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared. In the vision she carried a scapular in her hand and gave St. Simon Stock's promise that everyone who wears it is under their special protection. Members of other orders and finally lay people then asked to be allowed to wear such a scapular.
Adoration
In Palmi ( Calabria ) on November 16 every year the memory of the miracle of Our Lady of Mount Carmel is celebrated, which took place there between October 31, 1894 and November 16, 1894. During these seventeen days, the eyes of the statue of Our Lady are said to have moved and changed the color of the face several times. When the faithful carried the statue with them in a procession on the evening of November 16, a strong earthquake struck, in which most of the houses were destroyed, but only nine were killed because of the large participation of 15,000 inhabitants in the procession. The miracle was recognized by the Catholic Church and in the procession of 1896 the statue of Our Lady was crowned at the behest of the Holy See .
See also
literature
- Gerd Josef Weisensee: The dress from heaven. An introduction to the science of scapular wearing - with special consideration of the fivefold scapular and the associated five scapular fraternities . Theresia-Verlag, Lauerz 2000, ISBN 3-908542-96-0 .
