Carmelites in a sentence

The Discalced Carmelites also faced much opposition from other unreformed Carmelite houses (famously exemplified in the arrest and imprisonment in their own monastery of John of the Cross by Carmelites from Toledo).

The Carmelites arrived in Malta in 1418.

At this time, the city also was home to houses of the Carmelites (Whitefriars) and Franciscans (Greyfriars), the latter of which surviving in modified form as the chapel of Marischal College as late as the early 20th century.

Carmelites understand contemplation in a broad sense encompassing prayer, community, and service.

Controversies with other orders By the middle of the 17th century the Carmelites had reached their zenith.

In 1432 the Carmelites obtained from Pope Eugenius IV the bull Romani pontificis, which mitigated the Rule of St Albert and the 1247 modification, on the ground that the original demanded too much of the friars.

In 1593, the Discalced Carmelites had their own superior general styled propositus general - the first being Fr. Nicholas Doria.

In Castile, the Visitor was Pedro Fernández, who prudently balanced the interests of the Discalced Carmelites against those of the friars and nuns who did not desire reform.

In May 1585, at the General Chapter of the Discalced Carmelites in Lisbon, John was elected Provincial Vicar of Andalusia, a post which required him to travel frequently, making annual visitations of the houses of friars and nuns in Andalusia.

It was from this last observance that the followers of Teresa among the Carmelites were becoming known as "discalced", i.e., barefoot, differentiating themselves from the non-reformed friars and nuns.

Only in the 1580s did the Discalced Carmelites gain official approval of their status.

Quite early in their history the Carmelites began to develop ministries in keeping with their new status as mendicant religious.

The Carmelites, as an order whose Rule had only been promulgated by the Pope after 1215, should in theory have been included in this set.

The Lay Carmelites of the Third Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel wear a scapular which is smaller than the shortened scapular worn by some Carmelite religious for sleeping, but still larger than the devotional scapulars.

There, in part as a result of the opposition faced from other Carmelites in recent years, they decided to demand from the Pope their formal separation from the rest of the Carmelite Order.

The special objects of attack were the traditional origin of the Carmelites and the source of their scapular.

The split with the Discalced Carmelites in Spain, and the rise of Protestantism in many other parts of Europe, made the need for wider reform of the Carmelite order even more apparent.

They could assist religious superiors in their office, and could depute other superiors from either the Dominicans or Carmelites.