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c. 900 BC |
The prophet Elijah, living on Mt. Carmel in the Holy Land, experiences God in a deep and personal way. In turn, he instructs the first hermits of Mt. Carmel. |
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c. 1-33 AD |
Jesus lives |
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c. 4 |
St. Helena, Queen and Mother of Emperor Constantine, constructs the Basilica of Elijah in Palestine |
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c. 614 |
Persians invade Palestine, destroy the Basilica of Elijah- many Jews and Christians flee the Holy Land |
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1095-1291 |
The time of the Crusades |
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1155 |
St. Berthold, Italian priest-monk, settles with 10 ex-Crusaders on Mt. Carmel, living in the caves as hermits, like in the days of Elijah |
| c. 1190 |
Christian hermits living on Mt. Carmel construct and dedicate the first chapel to Our Lady-demonstrating the important Marian character of the Order |
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1206 |
The Brothers of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel receive a written rule from St. Albert of Jerusalem. The rule embodies their understanding of the Elijahan prophetic tradition |
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c. 1238 |
Muslims in the Holy Land begin causing problems for the Carmelite Brothers living on Mt. Carmel. The Carmelites begin moving all over Europe |
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1242 |
Sir Richard de Grey returns from the Crusades in the Holy Land and brings Carmelite brothers to England |
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1247 |
English Carmelite Simon Stock is elected Prior General |
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July 16, 1251 |
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel appears to St. Simon Stock and gives him the scapular promise: "Whosoever dies clothed with this habit shall be saved from eternal fire." |
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August 24, 1562 |
St. Teresa of Jesus begins her reform of Carmel. She establishes the convent of St. Joseph, following the rule of Carmel "in its entirety and without mitigation" -the first of 17 Discalced Carmelite Convents and many Discalced Carmelite Friaries |
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c. 1890 |
St. Therese, the Little Flower, forms her "little way of perfection" in the Monastery of Lisieux |
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July 2, 1891 |
Mother Maria Teresa of St. Joseph founds the Carmelite Sisters of the Divine Heart of Jesus, putting the contemplative spirit of Carmel into the active service of the apostolate |
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