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The Prayer to Our Lady of Mount Carmel is a prayer in the Roman Catholic Church. [1] It is a part of a novena for prayer beginning on July 7, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] July 8, [ 4 ] and in time of need. [ 5 ]
Flos Carmeli (Latin, "Flower of Carmel") is a Marian Catholic hymn and prayer honouring Our Lady of Mount Carmel.. In the Carmelite Rite of the Mass, this hymn was the sequence for the Feast of Saint Simon Stock (c. 1165 - 1265), and since 1663, for the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel on 16 July throughout the Latin liturgical rites.
The feast day of Our Lady of Mount Carmel is celebrated for ten days each July in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, where an approximately sixty-five foot tall "giglio" – a tower with a statue of Our Lady of Mount Carmel affixed atop it – is lifted and paraded on multiple dates during the festival. [11]
Alphonsus Liguori of the Redemptorists and John Bosco of the Salesians were especially devoted to Our Lady of Mount Carmel and were both buried wearing their Brown Scapulars. John Bosco's Brown Scapular was later exhumed in very good condition and is kept as a relic in the Basilica of Our Lady Help of Christians, Turin, Italy. [26]
Simon Stock, OCarm was an English Catholic priest and saint who lived in the 13th century and was an early prior of the Carmelite Order. The Blessed Virgin Mary is traditionally said to have appeared to him and given him the Brown Scapular.
The Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (also known as the Brown Scapular) belongs to the habit of both the Carmelite Order and the Discalced Carmelite Order, both of which have Our Lady of Mount Carmel as their patroness. [1] In its small form, it is widely popular among Catholics. Today, it serves as the prototype of all devotional scapulars.
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Mary, the mother of Jesus in Christianity, is known by many different titles (Blessed Mother, Virgin Mary, Mother of God, Our Lady, Holy Virgin, Madonna), epithets (Star of the Sea, Queen of Heaven, Cause of Our Joy), invocations (Panagia, Mother of Mercy, God-bearer Theotokos), and several names associated with places (Our Lady of Loreto, Our Lady of Fátima).