Carmelite Order, The

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• The Carmelite Order —     The Carmelite Order     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Carmelite Order     One of the mendicant orders.     Origin     The date of the foundation of the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel has been under discussion from the fourteenth century to …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Constitutions of the Carmelite Order — The Constitutions of the Carmelite Order stand as an expression of the ideals and spirit of the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Foundational sources for the Constitutions include the desert hermit vocation as exemplified in the life of the… …   Wikipedia

• Carmelite order — noun a Roman Catholic mendicant order founded in the 12th century • Syn: ↑Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel • Hypernyms: ↑order, ↑monastic order • Member Meronyms: ↑Carmelite, ↑White Friar …   Useful english dictionary

• Carmelite Rite — The Rite of the Holy Sepulchre commonly called the Carmelite Rite is the liturgical rite that was used by the Canons Regular of the Holy Sepulchre, Hospitallers, Templars, Carmelites and the other orders founded within the Latin Patriarchate of… …   Wikipedia

• Carmelite Rule of St. Albert — The eremitic Rule of St. Albert is the shortest of the rules of consecrated life in existence in the Roman Catholic spiritual tradition. St. Albert Avogadro, a priest of the Canons Regular and Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, wrote the Rule in the… …   Wikipedia

• Carmelite Daughters of the Divine Heart of Jesus — The Roman Catholic religious order of the Carmelite Sisters of the Divine Heart of Jesus was founded by Blessed Maria Teresa of St. Joseph (Anna Maria Tauscher) in July 2, 1891 [http://www.carmelitedcj.org/foundress.asp] . Mother Mary Teresa… …   Wikipedia

• Carmelite Church, Warsaw — Carmelite Church Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and of St. Joseph. General information Architectural style Baroque …   Wikipedia

• The Bollandists —     The Bollandists     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Bollandists     An association of ecclesiastical scholars engaged in editing the Acta Sanctorum. This work is a great hagiographical collection begun during the first years of the seventeenth… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Order of Saint Augustine — Abbreviation OSA Formation March, 1256 Type Catholic religious ord …   Wikipedia

• Carmelite — Car mel*ite, n. 1. (Eccl. Hist.) A friar of a mendicant order (the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel) established on Mount Carmel, in Syria, in the twelfth century; a White Friar. [1913 Webster] 2. A nun of the Order of Our lady of Mount Carmel.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English