It was The victory of Saladin at Hattin in 1187 put the quietus on religious life, cenobitical and eremitical, in Palestine. So After Hattin, the eremitical life in the open countryside became difficult, if not impossible, for Latins. One place remained where hermits might follow their vocation undisturbed: Mount Carmel until the end of the kingdom lay within the sphere of Frankish power. Carmel offered an ideal setting for retirement and reflection. Its rugged slopes, dense ...

It was The victory of Saladin at Hattin in 1187 put the quietus on religious life, cenobitical and eremitical, in Palestine. So After Hattin, the eremitical life in the open countryside became difficult, if not impossible, for Latins. One place remained where hermits might follow their vocation undisturbed: Mount Carmel until the end of the kingdom lay within the sphere of Frankish power. Carmel offered an ideal setting for retirement and reflection. Its rugged slopes, dense ...

"Others, in imitation of the holy anchorite, the prophet Elijah, led solitary lives on Mount Carmel, especially on that part thereof which overhangs the city of Porphyria, now called Haifa, near the well called Elijah’s Well, not far from the Convent of St. Margaret the Virgin, where in little comb-like cells, those bees of the Lord laid up sweet spiritual honey. The Carmelites follow a rich heritage of hermetic figures from Palestine, including Hilarion, Cariton, ...

"Others, in imitation of the holy anchorite, the prophet Elijah, led solitary lives on Mount Carmel, especially on that part thereof which overhangs the city of Porphyria, now called Haifa, near the well called Elijah’s Well, not far from the Convent of St. Margaret the Virgin, where in little comb-like cells, those bees of the Lord laid up sweet spiritual honey. The Carmelites follow a rich heritage of hermetic figures from Palestine, including Hilarion, Cariton, ...

Chapter 1 “Every Order taketh its name either from a place or from a saint,” writes John Baconthorpe, 14th century English Carmelite; “from a place, like the Cistercians who are called after Citeaux, and our Order after Carmel.” As a matter of fact, it is to Mount Carmel, a mountain in Palestine on the Bay of Haifa, that the Carmelite Order traces its origin. The date of its origin, the subject of an age-old controversy, ...

Chapter 1 “Every Order taketh its name either from a place or from a saint,” writes John Baconthorpe, 14th century English Carmelite; “from a place, like the Cistercians who are called after Citeaux, and our Order after Carmel.” As a matter of fact, it is to Mount Carmel, a mountain in Palestine on the Bay of Haifa, that the Carmelite Order traces its origin. The date of its origin, the subject of an age-old controversy, ...