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Saint Kuriakos Elias Chavara, the co-founder and first Prior General of the Congregation of the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate, was born at Kainakary in Kerala, India, on February 10, 1805. He entered the seminary in 1818 and was ordained a priest in 1829. He made his religious profession in 1855, within the congregation he established. In 1861, he was appointed vicar general for the...
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Born in Turin, Italy, in 1661, she died there in 1717 after a lifetime spent in the city. In 1675, she entered the Discalced Carmelite Convent of St. Christina and, several times, filled the offices of Prioress and Novice Mistress. She underwent continual spiritual trials but was constant in her ardent love of God. She was outstandingly faithful to prayer and particularly devoted to...
St. John of the Cross - December 14th - Carmelite Saints
Doctor of the Church. Author of Spiritual Canticles. Living Flame of Love. Ascent of Mount Carmel and poetry so sublime it is studied by Spanish literature students still! Our beloved saint was born in Fontiveros, Castile, Spain, most likely in 1540. As Dr. Lilies has pointed out, his childhood was not easy. His father, who had mar...
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Maria Maravillas was born in Madrid in 1891. She entered the El Escorial Carmel in Madrid on October 12, 1919. In 1924, she was inspired to found a Carmel at Cerro de los Angeles, alongside the monument to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. From this foundation, nine others followed in Spain and one in India. She always gave first place to prayer and self-sacrifice. She had a true, passiona...
Pope Leo in Constantinople: Littleness, Love, and the Battle for the Human Heart
This is Pope Leo’s first apostolic journey, and on Friday 28 November he spoke in the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit in Istanbul to the Catholic Christians of Turkey.
Let me declare an interest. I have found the years since my reception into the Catholic Church difficult in the years of the previous papac...
