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The motherhouse of the congregation is St. Teresa's at Avila-on-Hudson in Germantown, New York. At present, there are approximately 200 Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm who operate 24 homes caring for 5,200 elderly persons. [8]
Mary Angeline Teresa McCrory (January 21, 1893 – January 21, 1984) was an Ireland-born immigrant to the United States.She was a Roman Catholic religious sister who worked as an advocate for the impoverished elderly, founding a new religious congregation for this purpose, the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm.
St. Vincent's Hospital Westchester - Established by the Sisters of Charity of New York as a suburban branch of their primary hospital founded in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan which was founded in 1850; when the Manhattan site was closed in 2010, this facility was transferred to St. Joseph's Medical Center in Yonkers, New York ...
The Carmelite Sisters of Charity (Spanish: Hermanas Carmelitas de la Caridad de Vedruna; Latin: Institutum Sororum Carmelitarum a Caritate; abbreviation: C.C.V. or C. a Ch.) is a religious institute of pontifical right whose members profess public vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience and follow the evangelical way of life in common.
Paula Delpuig Gelabert (rel. name: Paula of Saint Aloysius) (1811–1889), Professed Religious of the Carmelite Sisters of Charity "Vedruna" (Spain) Declared "Venerable": 10 May 1973; María Teresa González-Quevedo Cadarso (1930-1950), Professed Religious of the Carmelite Sisters of Charity "Vedruna" (Spain) Declared "Venerable": 9 June 1983
Jerónimo Gracián or Jerome Gratian, O.Carm (6 June 1545 – 21 September 1614) was a Spanish Carmelite and writer. He was the spiritual director of St Teresa of Ávila, who took a vow of obedience to him. [2] He was the first Provincial of the Discalced Carmelites. [1]
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The Prophet Elijah is regarded as the spiritual father of the Carmelite order.. The Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel (Latin: Ordo Fratrum Beatissimæ Virginis Mariæ de Monte Carmelo; abbreviated OCarm), known as the Carmelites or sometimes by synecdoche known simply as Carmel, is a mendicant order in the Catholic Church for both men and women.