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Simon Stock was a 12th century superior of the Order (feast day May 16). He is shown with Saint Therese of Lisieux (the Little Flower), a 19th century Carmelite. |
| CENTER: | The Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (July 16) honors Mary as the patroness of the Carmelite Order, whose headquarters were once at Mt. Carmel in the Holy Land. |
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The first two American Carmelite houses are represented: the first, founded in 1790 in Port Tobacco, Maryland; and the second founded here in Baltimore in 1831 (just beneath Our Lady of Mount Carmel). |
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