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Quote of the day, 28 November: St. Teresa of Avila describes the first convent of the Discalced Carmelite friars that was founded on 28 November 1568 in Duruelo, Spain: "I never forget a little cross made for the holy water font."

On the First or Second Sunday of Advent (I don’t remember which of these Sundays it was), in the year 1568, the first Mass was said in that little stable of Bethlehem, for it doesn’t seem to me the house was any better [In fact, it was the First Sunday of Advent, 28 November 1568 that Fray Antonio de Heredia and St. John of the Cross began to observe the “Primitive Rule” of Pope Innocent IV in…

At age 21, St. John of the Cross joined the Carmelites but he was dissatisfied with the order’s way of life. Inspired by St. Teresa of Avila, he helped to launch her reform for the friars on 28 November 1568. Our blog has the details!

At twenty-one [St. John of the Cross] had decided his future: he left the hospital [where he worked as a nurse] to join a community of Carmelite friars. This movement traces its roots back to a group of hermits on Mount Carmel in Israel. On moving west to Europe in the thirteenth century they came to the major cities, professing a life of prayer, brotherhood and ministry, under the patronage of…

Quote of the day, 13 January: The apostolic visitation of Discalced Carmelite religious caused many headaches for St. Teresa of Avila. Today is the anniversary of Pius V’s decision to entrust those visitations to the Dominican friars.

On the matter of apostolic visitations At the very time that [Carmelite Prior General Juan Bautista] Rubeo had been in Spain on his mission of reform [1567], Philip II was engaged in plans for his own reform of the religious orders, the Carmelites among them. This comes as no surprise when it is pointed out that according to Philip’s information, the cause for the success of Lutheranism in the…

Quote of the day, 28 November: On this day in 1568, the Discalced friars began their new life in Duruelo. St Teresa wrote: “the first Mass was said in that little stable of Bethlehem, for it doesn't seem to me the house was any better.”

The Foundation of the Discalced Carmelite Friars Having the permission of these two provincials [Fray Alonso González, O.Carm. and his predecessor Fray Angel de Salazar, O.Carm., the Carmelite provincials of Spain], I now figured that nothing was lacking. We arranged that Father Fray John of the Cross would go to the house and get it ready so that, in spite of all, it could be lived in. For me,…

Quote of the day, 27 November: Fray Antonio de Heredia and his companion left for Duruelo, Spain on 27 November 1568 to begin the Teresian Reform for men on the next day, the First Sunday of Advent. St. Teresa tells us their story.

Fray Antonio de Heredia, who had resigned as Prior of Medina del Campo, and Fray José de Cristo, a deacon, left for Duruelo on 27 November 1568 to begin the Teresian Reform for men on the next day, the First Sunday of Advent, 28 November. They had renounced the mitigated Rule of Pope Eugene IV and promised obedience and observance of the Primitive Rule of Pope Innocent IV that was chosen by Saint…

Quote of the day: 28 November 1568, the founding of the Discalced Carmelite Friars at their first convent in Duruelo

The Foundation of the

Discalced Carmelite Friars

  Having the permission of these two provincials, I now figured that nothing was lacking. We arranged that Father Fray John of the Cross would go to the house and get it ready so that, in spite of all, it could be lived in. For me, what was most urgent was that the friars begin, for I was very fearful lest some obstacle would come along our path.…