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Ann Teresa Mathews (religious name, Mother Bernardina Teresa Xavier of St. Joseph; [1] 1732 – June 18, 1800) was a nun from Port Tobacco, Maryland who in 1790 founded the first Roman Catholic religious order for women in the United States.
The Mt. Carmel Monastery is a historic monastery located in Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland, United States. It comprises a two-part frame house, with the main block constructed around 1790 and restored in 1936–37.
Abbey of Our Lady of the Holy Trinity, a Roman Catholic monastery located in Huntsville which closed in 2017. [86] Carmel of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Monastery, in Holladay. The Carmelite nuns originally took residence downtown Salt Lake City, in December 1952 and then moved to Holladay, three years later.
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.
The Carmelite Rite, based on the Rite of the Holy Sepulchre, was used by the Ancient Observance branch of the Carmelite Order from the time of the first hermits on Mount Carmel in the Holy Land in the late 12th century, until Vatican II at which time the Carmelites began to celebrate the ordinary form of the Roman Rite Mass.
Françoise d'Amboise (1427–1485), Widow; Professed Religious of the Carmelite Nuns of the Ancient Observance (France) Beatified: 16 July 1863 by Pope Pius IX; Eleanora Girlani (rel. name: Arcangela) (1460–1494), Professed Religious of the Carmelite Nuns of the Ancient Observance (Italy) Beatified: 1 October 1864 by Pope Pius IX
The Hermits of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel [1] [2] is a branch of the Carmelite Order of the Ancient Observance, who originated as hermit monks and have been mendicant friars since the 13th century. [3] [4] The male Carmelites of this branch of the order are not considered monastics as the cloistered Carmelite nuns are.
Ferns — St Aidan’s Monastery of Adoration Family of Adoration nuns founded 1990, on the site of a parochial church (built 1826) demolished 1970s St Aidan [1] Fethard Abbey early monastic site, founded 6th century by St Abban, patronized by St Maedoc Fiodh-ard; Fetherde