✦ Remembering Saints

Feast day: July 16

Our Lady of Mount Carmel

Our Lady of Mount Carmel

Marian Feast

Patron of The Carmelite Order, deliverance from purgatory

Patronal feast of the Carmelites, the order of hermits-turned-mystics that gave the Church Teresa of Ávila, John of the Cross, and Thérèse of Lisieux.

The brown scapular associated with this feast is one of the most worn devotional objects in history — two small squares of wool cloth.

Image: Pietro Novelli (Public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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