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This smaller version of Incarnation Magazineis dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel,

chief patron of the Order, who appeared toSaint Simon Stock on July 16, 1251, with thesmall Brown Scapular and this promise:

"Take this Scapular, it shall be a sign of salvation, a protection in danger and a pledge of peace. Whosoeverdies wearing this Scapular shall not suffer eternal fire."

"One of the most remarkable effects ofsacramentals is the virtue to drive away evil spirits whose mysterious andbaleful operations affect sometimes the physical activity of man. To combatthis occult power the Church has recourse to exorcism, and sacramental." (The Catholic Encyclopedia., 1913, VXIII, p. 293) The promise of Our Lady tothose who wear the Brown Scapular is a traditional sacramental of the RomanCatholic Church, believed to impart efficacious grace to those who enroll inthe Scapular Confraternity or who simply choose to wear one.

Saint Pope John Paul II wore a BrownScapular his entire life. In the photo to theleft is Karol Wojtyla as a young factoryworker wearing his Brown Scapular.When Saint Pope John Paul II was shot

and operated on in 1981, he asked thedoctors not to remove his Brown Scapular.

IN THIS ISSUENot all of the new Saints and Blesseds of the Carmelite Calendar arerepresented in this issue: Bl. Candelaria of St. Joseph, Bl. Teresa MariaManetti of the Cross, St. Joachina de Vedruna de Mas, Bl. Maria

Crocifissa de Curcio, Bl. Josepha Naval Girbes, Bl. Maria MercedesPrat, Bl. Maria Teresa Scrilli, St. Henry de Osso, and Bl. KuriakosChavara. Look for them and others in future issues ofINCARNATION MAGAZINE!


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SAINT MARY OF JESUS CRUCIFIEDEverything passes here on earth. What are we?Nothing but dust, nothingness, and God is so great, so beautiful, so lovable and He is notloved. – St. Mary

Holy Spirit, inspire me. Love of God consumeme. Along the true road, lead me. Mary, my good mother, look down upon me. With Jesus,bless me. From all evil, all illusion, all danger, preserve me. – St. Mary

Mary Baouardy was born in 1846 in Abellin, near Nazareth. She wasthe first surviving child of Georges and Mary Baouardy, poor powder-

makers who had lost twelve boys in infancy. Mary was born in answerto a novena to the Blessed Virgin in Bethlehem, with the promise thatshe would be named for her. Two years later, her brother Paul wasborn, and then, tragically, both parents died of an infectious disease,leaving Mary and Paul orphaned. They went to live with differentrelatives, and never saw each other again. These events were only thefirst of many sufferings in store for little Mary. Her wealthy uncletreated her well, but as was the custom during those times, he had

arranged a marriage for her when she was only thirteen. Mary hadalways loved Jesus and the Virgin, and she did not want to marry. She prayed. The night before her wedding, Jesus spoke to her, telling herthat He would help her. She cut off her beautiful long braids, wrappedthe jewels she had been given in them, and sent them to heruncle. This made him furious, and from that day Mary was treated asa household slave. In her anguish, she befriended another servant, aman who was a Muslim. He promised to help her to deliver a letter to

her brother in a different town. But when she went to his home withthe letter, he tried to force her to renounce her faith in Christ. This sherefused to do, and the angry man slit her throat. The next thing Maryremembered was a beautiful woman in blue came to her and gave her

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a delicious broth that gave her strength. The woman dressed her wound, and then told her that she would enter a Carmelite monastery,make her vows in another, and die in another. This prediction provedtrue, because Mary later entered the Carmel of Pau, France. Sheassisted a foundation in India where she made her vows, and she diedin the Carmel that she had helped to found in Bethlehem. Awaking ina confessional in a Franciscan church located in Jerusalem, Marybegan working as a domestic. A series of positions led her to the familythat brought her to France, where she began her religious life as aSister of St. Joseph of the Apparition, but her mystical graces alarmedthe sisters, and they did not accept her there. Her novice mistressbrought her to the Carmel of Pau, where she was accepted and giventhe name Mary of Jesus Crucified. She died in the Carmelof Bethlehem from a fall that wounded her leg in 1878. Mary of JesusCrucified was just canonized by Pope Francis on May 17, 2015.

St. Mary is shown here as a novice and as a professednun of the black veil. Although she made her professionas a “lay nun,” that is, a sister who does not chant in

the choir and wears a white veil, she was given the black veil. Mary of Jesus Crucified, also known as “the Little Arab,” received many gifts of the Holy Spirit.


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SAINT

TERESA OF

THE ANDES

Jesus alone

is beautiful.

He is my

only joy.

I call for

Him I cry after Him I search

for Him within my heart.

—

St. Teresa of the Andes

Born in Santiago, Chile, on July 13, 1900, Juanita Fernandez

Solar, one of six children of devoted Catholic parents, began

her life with Jesus at an early age. At the age of fifteen, she

made a private vow of virginity, which she renewed

continually until she entered the Carmel of the Holy Spirit in

the town of Los Andes at the age of eighteen. Juanita had been

praying for many years, and had worked to overcome her

difficult personality traits such as pride and anger. Her


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prioress recognized holiness in her new postulant, who

confided to her that Jesus had told her that she would die

young. Within a few months after her clothing day, Juanita,

now Sister Teresa of Jesus, contracted typhus and died in her

convent. Her prioress allowed her to make her solemn

vows on her deathbed. Juanita was not yet twenty years of

age. She was beatified in 1987 and canonized in 1993 by Saint

Pope John Paul II, who proposed her example as a model for

youth. She is the first Chilean canonized saint. Her feast day

is celebrated on July 13

th

, the day of her birth.

“I want to be athirst with love so that other souls may

possess this love. I would die to creatures and to

myself so that He may live in

me.”

-- St. Teresa of the Andes

Juanita at her First

Communion.

“Is there anything good beautiful or true that would not be

in Jesus? … He is my unending wealth my bliss my heaven.”

uanita at eighteen months.

Sr. Teresa after her death.


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SAINTEDITH STEIN(SR. TERESABENEDICTA

OF THE CROSS)Born on the holiest day of the Jewishcalendar, Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement), the youngest of elevenchildren of an observant Jewish familyin Breslau, Germany, in 1891, "smart Edith" as she was called byfriends and family renounced her faith as a young girl. Her

search for truth led her to the study of philosophy, at which sheexcelled at the University of Gottingen and the University ofFreiburg. In 1916, she received her doctorate at the University ofFreiburg with her dissertation On theProblem of Empathy. She became a memberof the faculty and worked as assistant to the phenomenologist Edmund Husserl, a

Protestant Christian. After reading the Life ofSaint Teresa of Avila, Edith was baptized aCatholic on January 1st, 1922. She taught at aDominican Catholic school in Speyer until1931, and then served as a lecturer at theCatholic affiliated Institute for Scientific Pedagogy inMunster until forced to resign in 1933 by Nazi persecution. In

October of 1934, she entered the Carmelite monastery inCologne, taking the name Teresa Benedicta of the Cross(Blessed of the Cross). In obedience to superiors, Sr. TeresaBenedicta continued her contribution to the field of philosophy


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with the work Finite and Eternal Being, an exploration of the possibilities of a Catholic phenomenology by combining the

teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas and Husserl. As Nazi persecution increased, Sr. Teresa Benedicta and her sister Rosa, who had become a Catholic and was serving the monastery as anextern sister, took shelter in the Carmelite monastery of Echt,Holland where she wrote The Science of the Cross, a study ofSaint John of the Cross. In June of 1939, Sr. Teresa Benedictarequested permission of her prioress to offer her life for her people, for the Church, for the salvation of Germany and for the peace of the world. "I beg the Lord to take my life and mydeath....for all concerns of the sacred hearts of Jesusand Mary and the holy Church, especially for the

preservation of our holy Order, in particular theCarmelite monasteries of Cologne and Echt, asatonement for the unbelief of the Jewish people, and

that the Lord will be received by His own people, andHis kingdom shall come in glory, for the salvation ofGermany and the peace of the world; at last for my ownloved ones, living or dead, for all that God gave to me:that none of them will go astray.” By August of thefollowing year, the Nazis had invaded the Netherlands. Sister

Teresa Benedicta of the Cross and her sister Rosa werearrested along with two hundred and forty-three baptized Jewsliving in the Netherlands. Several days later, at the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp, Saint Edith Stein was martyredtogether with her sister Rosa and many other Jewish Christians.


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SAINTMARIAMARAVILLAS

OF JESUS

“The St. Teresa Association isa group of monasteries ofDiscalced Carmelite Nuns formed in 1975 to strengthenone another in living ourcontemplative vocation in the Church. Membership isbased on spiritual affinity rather than geographicalboundaries, and we share a common desire to bearwitness in these times to the charism and spirit of theOrder of Discalced Carmelite Nuns founded by SaintTeresa of Avila in 1562.” Maria de las Maravillas was bornin Madrid, Spain, on November 1, 1891 to Luis and ChristinaPidal, devout Catholics. Her father was the Spanish Ambassador

to the Vatican. Maria was a deeply religious child who made a vow of chastity at the age of five. She wanted to enter the Carmelof Madrid after reading the works of St. John of the Cross and St.Teresa of Avila, but her entrance was delayed until the age oftwenty-seven after her father's death. Before making her solemn vows in 1924, Sr. Maria had already founded a Carmelitemonastery six miles south of Madrid, in Getafe. This was thefirst of many Teresian Carmelite Monasteries founded by MotherMaravillas, who served as prioress throughout her life. In 1972,she received permission from the Holy See to establish the Association of Saint Teresa as members of the Order ofDiscalced Carmelites. Although beginning in Spain, there are


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now at least ten monasteries of the Association in Canada andthe United States. The monasteries belonging to the Association

keep the observance as established by St. Teresa of Avila in 1582. After a life of service, Mother Maravillas died peacefully in oneof the Carmels she had founded in Aldehuela, Spain, at the ageof eighty-four, on December 11, 1974.

Mother Maravillas of Jesus was canonized bySaint Pope John Paul II in 2003.

Her feastday is December 11

th

.

“ Yesterday, Sunday, on climbing the stairs to go to the upper choir for the sung Mass, I wasquite recollected, yet without any particularthought, when I heard clearly within me,"My delight is to be with the children ofmen." These words which made a strongimpression on me, I understood were not

for me this time, but rather in the nature of arequest the Lord was making me to offer thewhole of myself to give Him these souls Heso much desires. It is hard to explain, but Isaw clearly, that a soul which sanctifiesitself becomes fruitful in attracting souls to

God. This so deeply moved me that I offered with my whole heart

to the Lord all my sufferings of body and soul for this purpose,despite my poverty. It then seemed to me that this offering wasright, but what was strictly important was to surrendermyself, wholly and completely to the divine will, so that He coulddo what He desired in me and likewise I would accept the painalong with the pleasure. I seemed to understand that what pleased Him was not the greatest sacrifice but rather the exact

and loving fulfillment in the least detail of that will. In this Iunderstood many things I find hard to explain, and how Hewished me to be very sensitive in this fulfillment, which wouldcarry me a long way in self-sacrifice and love.”


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SAINTRAPHAELKALINOWSKICanonized in 1991 by Saint Pope

John Paul II, Raphael Kalinowski

is the first male Carmelite to be

raised to the altars since St. John

of the Cross. Born in 1835 in

Vilnius, Poland, which at the time

was under Russian rule (formerly

a Polish-Lithuanian territory), Joseph was the second of nine

children of Andrew Kalinowski, who remarried twice after the

death of Joseph s mother Josephine Polanska. Like his father

who taught mathematics, Joseph excelled at math and

engineering under the patronage of the Imperial Russian

Army, which he joined at the age of eighteen. Although

promoted to Lieutenant and then Captain, Joseph resigned

from the Russian army in 1863 to join the Polish uprising in

the Vilnius region, a choice which cost him dearly. In 1864 he

was arrested and sentenced to death, but his sentence was

commuted to ten years in the labor camps after a treacherous

nine-month trek through the salt-mines of Siberia. He was

able to continue some of his scholarly work for the Russian

Geographical Society during the later years of his

imprisonment, and then he was released 1873. Exiled from

his homeland of Lithuania, Joseph went to Paris and

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of Prince August Czartoryski, who later became a priest and

was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2004. In 1877, Joseph

joined the Carmelites in Linz, where he was given the name

Raphael of St. Joseph. He was ordained a priest in 1882 at the

monastery in Czerna, where he served as prior beginning in

1883. From there, St. Raphael Kalinowski worked to establish

the Carmelite monastery in Wadowice, where he served as

prior. He also helped to found two Carmelite monasteries for

Discalced Carmelite nuns. He died in Wadowice of

tuberculosis in 1907 where, fourteen years later, the future

Saint Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla) was born.

The photos above show Joseph Kalinowski as an officer in the Russian army,and later as a tutor to Prince August Czartoryski, who was beatified in 2004.

“Once a desert father was asked by a certain young hermit whatbooks he ought to study in order to advance in holiness. The oldman replied: My practice is to read two books only. In themorning hours I read the Gospel, and in the evening I read theRule. The first teaches me the way I should walk as a disciple ofthe Lord Jesus Christ. The other teaches me what I should do to

be a good religious. That is enough for me.”Saint Raphael Kalinowski


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BLESSED ELIAOF SAINT

CLEMENTTheodora, a name meaning "giftof God," was born January 17, 1901,in Bari, Italy. She entered the

Carmelite monastery there at theage of nineteen, and died seven years later on Christmas day aftermaking her total offering of herselfto God in 1924. She was beatifiedin 2005 by Pope Benedict XVI.From her writings: “My Delight, who could ever separate me

from You? Who could be capable of breaking these strongchains that keep my heart attached to Yours? Perhaps theabandonment of creatures? It is precisely this that unites thesoul to its Creator. . . . Perhaps tribulations, suffering, crosses? Itis in these thorns that the canticle of the soul that loves You isfreest and lightest. Perhaps death? But this will be nothing butthe beginning of true happiness for the soul. . . . Nothing,nothing can separate this soul from You, not even for a brief

moment. It was created for You and is lost if it does not abandonitself to you.” “My life is love; this sweet nectar surrounds me,this merciful love penetrates me, purifies me, renews me, and Ifeel it consuming me. The cry of my heart is: Love of my God,my soul searches for You alone. My soul, suffer and be quiet; loveand hope; offer yourself, but hide your suffering behind a smile,and always move on . . . .”

“I want to spend my life in deep silence, in the depths of myheart, in order to listen to the gentle voice of my sweet Jesus.”

Blessed Elia of St. Clement


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BLESSED

ISIDORE BAKANJA,MARTYR OF THEBROWN SCAPULARIsidore Bakanja (1887 – 1909) worked as amason for colonists in the Belgian Congo, now

known as Zaire. Converted to Christianity andbaptized in May of 1906 at the age of eighteen,Isidore wore a Brown Scapular and loved to praythe rosary. He moved to a village where there were some Christians so as to share his love forthe faith. But this zeal eventually cost him his

life in a most cruel manner. Working as a domestic on a Belgianrubber plantation, Isidore asked permission to go home. He was

refused, and furthermore forbidden to teach others how to pray withthe words, “You’ll have the whole village praying and no-one will work!” He was ordered to tear off his Scapular and to throw it away.When he refused to do this, he as flogged twice with a whip made ofelephant hide with nails on the tip. He was chained to the ground untilan inspector came to the plantation and sent him to a different village.Isidore tried to hide in the forest, but as his deep wounds began tofester, he dragged himself to the inspector. The agent tried to kill “that

animal,” as he called him, but the inspector prevented this finalcruelty. As the inspector testified later, “I saw a man come from theforest with his back torn apart by deep, festering, malodorous wounds,covered with filth, assaulted with flies. He leaned on two sticks inorder to get near me. He wasn’t walking, he was dragging himself.”He took Isidore to his home to heal, but Isidore knew that he wasdying. “If you see my mother, or if you go to the judge, or if you meeta priest, tell them that I am dying because I am a Christian.” Two

missionaries were able to give him the last sacraments, urging him toforgive the man who had assaulted him. Isidore assured them that hehad done so. He died six months later, on August 15, 1909, with hisrosary in hand, and Scapular around his neck. He was beatified bySaint Pope John Paul II in 1994. His feastday is August 12.


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LOUIS and AZELIEMARTINSOON-TO-

BE SAINTSThe parents of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus(Therese of Lisieux) will be canonized onOctober 18th of this year. They will be the firstmarried couple to be canonized together. LouisMartin (1823 – 1894) was born in Bordeaux, France, into amilitary family. From his youth he longed for monastic life, andattempted to join the Augustinians and later, the Carthusians, inthe hope of becoming a priest. His difficulty learning Latin andfurther discernment led him to abandon these efforts. Resolvedto live piously as a single man, Louis moved to Alencon, wherehe set up a successful watchmaking and jeweler’s shop. He livedhappily there for several years. God had other plans. One day, at

the age of thirty-five, as he was crossing the Saint-LeonardBridge, he noticed a young lady, who noticed him. An interior voice spoke then to Marie- Azelie Guerin, known as Zelie. “Thisis he whom I have prepared for you.”

Zelie Guerin Martin (1831 – 1877), also born into a militaryfamily whose father served in the police force and later retired at Alencon, had longed to be a religious sister of the Daughters of

Charity. She studied under the Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, where she learned the delicate skill of lacemaking. Before theirmarriage in 1858, Zelie had already established a successfullacemaking business, operated from her home.


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Within three months of their providential meeting, Louis andZelie were married at midnight, July 13th, at the cathedral of the

Assumption in Alencon. The couple saw their marriage as a work of God, deciding that God would always be “the firstserved” in their home. From the beginning, they decided to tryto maintain perfect chastity, adopting an eleven-year-old child ofa distressed widower as an act of charity and parenthood. Uponthe advice of a priest-friend, after ten months the happily marriedcouple decided to have as many children as possible to offer tothe Lord. They were blessed with nine children, all given thefirst name of Marie. But only five survived to adult life. Thesefive young women all entered religious life, for which theirmother Zelie had prayed fervently.

Family life at the Martin household was joyful and pious. Thefamily prayed together each day, with daily Mass and a readingfrom the daily liturgy of the hours. Among the saints familiar tothe family were St. Louis de Montfort, St. Francis de Sales and

St. Vincent de Paul. In the city of Paris, in 1830, a young memberof the congregation of the Daughters of Charity, founded by St. Vincent de Paul, named Catherine Laboure had received a visionof the Blessed Virgin Mary, asking her to promote the use of what is now known as the Miraculous Medal, with the words,“Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse toThee.” The devotion was approved and spread rapidly

throughout France, although the dogma of the ImmaculateConception had not yet been proclaimed. On the other side ofFrance, in the southern town of Lourdes, in 1858 a young peasantgirl named Bernadette Soubirous reported the apparition of “abeautiful lady” who identified herself as “the ImmaculateConception,” confirming the recent dogmatic proclamation ofPope Pius IX. Surely these events influenced the spirituality of

the Martin family.

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The death of Zelie in August of1877 of breast cancer at the age of

forty-six left Louis with his fivedaughters, the youngest beingonly four years old. Grief-stricken, he sold Zelie’s lace-making business and moved thefamily to Lisieux, where Zelie’sbrother’s family also lived. Hisoldest daughters Marie andPauline cared for the youngergirls, with the help of hiredservants. During these years,Louis gave himself over moreand more to his first love – thelove of God – even maintaining asmall “hermitage” on some

property in the country, where heloved to retire for contemplation

and a bit of fishing. Therese, for whom he held a deep, fatherlyaffection, calling her “his little queen,” would sometimesaccompany him on these excursions, and on visits to the BlessedSacrament.

One by one, Louis’ daughters left the family circle to enter

convents. First Marie entered the Carmel of Lisieux, and laterPauline. This left three girls, Leonie, Celine and Therese, athome. Asking for her father’s permission to enter the Carmel ofLisieux at the age of fifteen must have been one of the most painful sacrifices of Therese’s life. Not long after she hadentered, her father confided to his three daughters in Carmel thathe had visited the church where he had married their mother.

“My God, I am too happy. It’s not possible to go to Heaven likethat. I want to suffer something for you.” He offered himself thento God. This was in May of 1888. Less than ten years later, hisdaughter Therese would offer herself as Victim of Merciful Love.

Youngest daughter of Louis and Zelie

Martin, the future Saint and Doctor of

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In 1889, after suffering two paralyzing strokes, Louis Martin wascommitted to the care of the Good Savior hospital in Caen, a

decision that was enforced by his devoted brother-in-law IsidoreGuerin, who became legal guardian of the family. In 1892,returning to the home in Lisieux paralyzed and unable to speak,Louis was cared for devotedly by his daughters Leonie andCeline until his death in 1894. Soon both Leonie and Celine hadentered convents. The deepest desire of Louis and Zelie Martinhad been fulfilled: all of their children on earth had beenconsecrated to God.

BREAKING NEWS: Bishop Jean-Claude Boulanger of the

diocese of Lisieux announced his intention of officially

opening the CAUSE FOR THE BEATIFICATION OF LEONIE

MARTIN, third child of Louis

and Zelie Martin and SISTER

OF ST. THERESE. Leonie

Martin (Sister Francoise-

Therese) June 3, 1863 to June

16, 1941, was a Visitandine

Nun at the convent of Caen,

France, for most of her life.

Miracles have been reported to

have occurred at her

gravesite. Leonie was known

as “the difficult child” of the family. She attempted to join

the Poor Clares three times before finally discovering her

true vocation with the Visitation Nuns, founded by Saint

Francis de Sales and Saint Jane Frances Chantal in 1610.

It was Therese’s “Little Way of Spiritual Childhood,” of

which Leonie was a devoted disciple, which opened up for

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BLESSED

MARIACANDIDA

OF THEEUCHARIST

Maria Barba was born in1884 and grew up inPalermo, Sicily where herfather served as a judge. She wanted to begin religious lifeat the age of fifteen, but hadto wait twenty years. After her entrance and formation in theCarmel of Ragusa, she was elected prioress. She worked to revivethe spirit of St. Teresa of Avila in her community. Under herleadership the community grew enough to make a foundation inSyracuse. She also helped to bring the Carmelite friars back toSicily. But she is best known for her many writings on the HolyEucharist: “To contemplate with deep faith our Beloved in theSacrament, to live with Him Who comes to us every day, toremain with Him in the depths of our hearts, this is our life! The

more intense this intimate life is the more we will be Carmelitesand make progress in perfection. This contact, this union with Jesus is everything: what fruits of virtue will come from it! Youmust have this experience. To live with Jesus and to live byHis virtues, is to listen to His beautiful voice, to His most lovingwish and immediately obey it, to please quickly Him. Our eyesclose, longing to find Him again, to contemplate Him in the

depths of our hearts: is this not the reason why He gives us HolyCommunion in the morning? Is it not the attraction for Him thatremains in the Blessed Sacrament, where He lives? I do not knowhow to separate the ciborium in the sacred Tabernacle from the


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ciborium in our hearts! Oh how many times, even though we arein the choir, before His sacred Presence, at times exposed, we

experience with our Jesus the need to go deeply into ourselves,and there rediscover and remain! What mystery of love is thisintimacy with our Beloved! I reflect on this, sometimes withemotion, and give praise to Him Who is Love! And with tears Icontemplate this intimacy. Everything here on this earth isnothing for us, withdrawn as we are, far from Him Who loved usso much; our eyes no longer see anything: we close them againto lose ourselves in the same sacred environment, we close themanxious to find Him again, to see Jesus! The most delightfulMystery of Love! He allows Himself to be found by the heart thatsearches for Him, by the soul that knows how to do withoutmany things for love of Him. To be close to our Lord in theBlessed Sacrament, like the Saints in Heaven, who contemplatethe supreme Good, is what we must do, according to our HolyMother Teresa. Seven times a day, we come together around the

throne (of our Good God), the sacred Tabernacle, reciting thedivine praises: oh how much faith merits such lofty activity, whatdying to self! May adoration and love accompany and beautifyeverything!” (from Eucharist: True Jewel of EucharisticSpirituality)

After serving as prioress until 1947, Mother Candida was

diagnosed with a tumor in her liver. She died on the 12th June1949. It was the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity. She was beatifiedMarch 21, 2004, by Saint Pope

John Paul II, who described MariaCandida as "an authentic mystic of the Eucharist … the unifyingcenter of the whole of life, following the Carmelite tradition.”

"She was so in love with Jesus in the Eucharist

that she felt a constant and ardent desire to be atireless apostle of the Eucharist."

Saint Pope John Paul II


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BLESSEDTITUSBRANDSMABorn 1881 Anno Brandsma to Titus andTjitsje Brandsma, small dairy farmers inFriesland, Holland. Five of their sixchildren entered religious life. Titusbegan his studies with the Franciscans,and entered the Carmelite novitiate inBoxmeer in 1898, taking his father's

name Titus for his religious name. He was ordained in 1905,studied at the Roman Gregorian University, and graduated in

1909 with a doctorate in philosophy. Titus dedicated his life toeducation, particularly to Carmelite mysticism, philosophy, andjournalism. In 1923 he helped found the Catholic University ofNijmegen in Holland, where he taught and served asrector. In 1935, he completed a lecture tour in the United Statesat various Carmelite institutions, and in the same year he wasappointed by his archbishop to serve as advisor to Catholic

journalists in Holland. In January of 1942, the Third Reich hadinvaded Holland and ordered Catholic newspapers to print Nazi propaganda. Titus hand-delivered a letter written by the Dutchbishops to the editors of 14 newspapers asking them not to obey,before he was arrested on the 19th of January. By the 19th of June,he was in Dachau concentration camp, where he washospitalized. On the 26th of July he was killed with a lethal

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Above: Titus as a boy, as a young Carmelite (left) with his family, andas an adult. Below: Titus as a scholar and journalist; his prison cell.

Blessed Titus Brandsma was beatified by

Saint Pope John Paul II in 1985.“When we speak of and pray for the coming of the kingdom, it isnot a prayer for a kingdom based on differences of race and bloodbut on universal brotherhood. In union with Him who makesthe sun rise on the good and on the evil, all men are our brothers – even those who hate us and fight us. We do not want a relapseinto the sin of the earthly paradise, into the sin of makingourselves equal to God. We do not wish to begin a cult of heroesbased on the divinization of human nature. We acknowledge thelaw of God and we submit to it.”— Blessed Titus Brandsma


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BLESSEDMARIASAGRARIOOF SAINT

ALOYSIUSGONZAGA

Born in Lilo, Spain, toRicardo Moragas and Isabel Cantarero January 8, 1881,Elvira was the first woman in Spain to become a

pharmacist, like her father, at which she excelled. Sheentered a Carmelite monastery in Madrid at the age ofthirty-five, made her solemn profession of vows onEpiphany 1920, was elected prioress in 1927 andbecame novice mistress in 1930. Her desire to be amartyr was fulfilled when, on July 20th of 1936, (a few

weeks earlier she had again been elected prioress of thecommunity), her convent was attacked. Mother Mariafound shelter for all of her daughters in the homes offriends, but was herself arrested, along with anotherSister, on August 14th. Refusing to reveal the hiding

places of her daughters, Blessed Maria was shot todeath on August 15th, Feast of the Assumption of the

Blessed Virgin Mary. Her daughters survived theordeal and were spared. She was beatified in 1998 bySaint Pope John Paul II.


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BLESSEDSMARIAPILAR,TERESA,

AND MARIA ANGELESMurdered by communists in1936 during the Spanish CivilWar: Sisters Maria Pilar ofSaint Francis Borgia, 58 years

old, Teresa of the Child Jesus,27, and Maria of the Angels, 31. On July 22, eighteen nuns of theCarmelite monastery in Guadalajara went into hiding in seculardress. These three martyrs hid in the basement of a hotel. Twodays later, making their way along a street, a woman soldierrecognized them as nuns and ordered them to be shot. Sr. Mariaof the Angels died instantly. Sr. Maria Pilar, although wounded,cried out: "Long live Christ the King!" This infuriated the

soldiers, who shot at her and slashed her with a knife. She died with the words, "My God, pardon them. They do not know whatthey are doing." Sr. Teresa was led to a nearby cemetery where,after her words "Long live Christ the King!" she also was shot inthe back. They were beatified by Saint Pope John Paul II onMarch 29th, 1987. Their feast day is observed on July 24th, theday of their martyrdom.


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BLESSEDHILARY

JANUSZEWSKIBlessed Hilary was born June 12,1907, in Krajenki, Poland, andgiven the name Pawel. He

entered the Carmelite Order in1927 in Cracow, and was ordained priest in 1934 after completing hisstudies at the InternationalCollege of Saint Albert inRome. As one of the best students, he obtained a lectorate intheology from the Roman Academy of Saint Thomas, and

returned to Cracow in 1935 where he was appointed Professor ofDogmatic Theology and Church History at the Institute of thePolish Province. In 1939 he was appointed prior of thecommunity. The Nazis had invaded Poland a few weeksearlier. Within a year, several friars had been arrested anddeported. Father Hilary offered his life in exchange for an olderand sick friar. By April of 1941 he was imprisoned in the

concentration camp at Dachau along with several otherCarmelites, including Blessed Titus Brandsma whom he joinedin prayer. In response to an outbreak of typhus in the camp,thirty-two priests offered to help. Father Hilary joined them. OnMarch 25, 1945, just a few days before the liberation of the camp,Father Hilary died of typhus at Dachau.

Along with 108 Polish martyrs of the Second World War,Fr. Hilary Januszewski and Fr. Alfonse Maria Mazurek were

beatified by Saint Pope John Paul II in 1999.


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BLESSED ALFONSEMAZUREKBlessed Alfonse Maria Mazurek

was born March 1st, 1891, inPoland, and given the name Jozef (Joseph). He attendedseminary school during his youth, and joined the CarmeliteOrder in 1912, where he took thename Alfonsus Mary of the

Holy Spirit. He was placed in charge of the Minor Seminary. In 1930

he was elected prior of the Carmelite monastery in Czerna. On August24, 1944, Nazis invaded the monastery. Father Alfonsus was separatedfrom the others and tortured. He was taken by military car to a dirt path where he was kicked and forced to walk a great distance beforehe was shot and wounded. He was kicked more and his mouth filled with dirt by the Nazi guards who had mortally wounded him. Somebrother friars found him, and he received absolution before his deathon August 28th, the vigil of the martyrdom St. John the Baptist, to

whom he was devoted. The following words are from the address ofSaint Pope John Paul II: “Blessed are those who are persecut ed in thecause of uprightness: the kingdom of Heaven is theirs” (Matt.5:10)….To whom do these words still apply? To many, many peoplethroughout humanity’s history, to whom it was given to suffer persecution for the sake of justice….Even our century has written agreat martyrology. I myself, over the twenty years of my pontificate,have elevated to the glory of the altar numerous groups of martyrs:

Japanese, French, Vietnamese, Spanish, Mexican. How many there were during the period of the Second World War and under thecommunist totalitarian system! They suffered and gave their lives inthe Hitlerian or Soviet extermination camps. The time has now cometo remember ….”


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BLESSEDFRANCISPALAU Y QUER

Blessed Francis Palau y Quer, like so

many other Carmelites, writes beautifullyof the union of the soul with God inmystical marriage. He was born in Spainin 1811, the seventh of nine children of JosePalau and Maria Antonia Quer. He entered the Order in 1832and was ordained a priest in 1836 during a period of civil unrestthat resulted in the closing of his monastery. Blessed

Francis lived in exile and in solitude in France, coming back toSpain in 1851 to found what he called "The School of Virtue" forcatechetical instruction. The school was suppressed in 1854,forcing Francis into solitude again until 1860 on the rocky coastof Ibiza where he shared mystically in the sufferings of theChurch. It was here that his writings, "The Struggle of the Soul with God," were born. In 1861, Francis founded theCongregation of Carmelite Brothers and Sisters. He died at

Tarragona in 1872 and was beatified by Pope John Paul II on April 24th, 1980. From "Fr. Francisco Palau, OCD, Letters"Published Rome, Carmelite Missionares, 1997 (Note: Juana wasBl. Francisco's spiritual daughter; the direction in this letter isbeautiful for any to read and ponder.) “ JMJ, Day of Our Lady ofCarmel, 1857, Long Live Jesus! Dearest sister in Jesus Christ ,We are celebrating the octave of our most holy Mother, Our

Lady of Carmel, and I shall spend it putting my things in orderas though these were the last days of my life. Now for youraffairs. I am awaiting your letter in order to see to your exteriorlife. In the meantime, let us see the interior. God's great work in


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man takes place in the Interior. The order that appears and isshown outside is the work and effect of the order inside. The

three theological virtues of faith, hope and charity, aided by thehighest and most sublime gifts of the Holy Spirit, such asunderstanding, wisdom, knowledge, and counsel, unite thecreature, the human spirit, with his God, the soul with the Wordof God. It is this sacred union that you must seek, hold and possess; in it lie the spiritual life, health and strength, and fromit originate all the other virtues. The soul looks to God under twoaspects or forms: first as the object of all its affections, or as aninfinitely good and lovable being, and this imagining robs theheart; and insofar as he is good, infinitely beautiful, that is,infinitely perfect, he captures our intellectual vision, ourthoughts and meditations. In this regard, the theological virtuesand their gifts cause God and the soul to become one single thingthrough love and purity of thoughts. While this divine uniontakes place primarily and mainly in the soul, all the other virtues

are like aids, attendants and armies of that guard, that assist and protect this work. This is the love of God for the soul and the loveof the soul for God. Moreover, while the said union is worked outand ordered, another union begins; this is the one about which Ihave told you many times: the soul unites first with God as itsbeloved, as the center of its affection and vision, and then as itsKing, Lord, master and universal governor of the whole world.

The first union turns the soul into a goddess, that is, it deifies,divinizes and makes it God's spouse. The second one elevates itto the dignity of queen, co-redeemer of the world, lady and princess. The first is the love of God and the second, the love ofneighbor, and since the love of God and of neighbor sums up the whole of God's work in the heart of men, and since this is the work to be started, continued and perfected in us and the

fulfillment of the whole law, no one can enter the kingdom ofGod if this has not been done to a degree of perfection that Godalone knows.”


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BLESSEDS

JACQUESRETOURET, JOHNBAPTIST,MICHAEL

AND JAMES priests and martyrsfor their refusal to

take the oath of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy during theFrench Revolution which, among other things, demandedelection of future popes and bishops by popular vote. Saint Pope John Paul II beatified 63 priests and religious on October 1, 1995, who had been imprisoned on board two ships stationed in

Rochefort Bay, France, for ten months awaiting deportation intoslavery. The following are excerpts from Resolutions Drawn Upby the Priests Imprisoned on the Ship Les Deux Associes: “Theywill never give themselves up to useless worries about being setfree. Instead, they will make the effort to profit from the time oftheir detention by meditating on their past years, by making holyresolutions for the future, so that they can find in the captivity of

their bodies, freedom for their souls ... If God permits them torecover totally or in part this liberty nature longs for, they willavoid giving themselves up to an immoderate joy when theyreceive the news. By keeping their souls tranquil they will showthey support without murmur the cross placed on them, and thatthey are disposed to bear it even longer with courage and as trueChristians who never let themselves be beaten by adversity. Theywill not show grief over the loss of their goods, no haste to

recover them, no resentment against those who possess them.They will never get mixed up in the new politics, being contentto pray for the welfare of their country and prepare themselvesfor a new life, if God permits them to return to their homes ….”


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BLESSEDS

EUFRASIO ANDEUSEBIOOF THECHILD JESUSBorn February 8, 1897,

Eufrasio Barredo Fernandez (Eufrasio of the Child Jesus) in Asturias, Spain, where he was martyred on October 12, 1934. He was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI on October 12, 2007. OvidioFernandez Arenillas (Eusebio of the Child Jesus) was born 21February 1888 in Castifale, Leon, Spain. He was martyred duringthe Spanish Civil War, 1936, in Toledo, along with fifteen other

Carmelites who were beatified on October 28, 2007 by PopeBenedict XVI. (Please see newsaints.faithweb.com for moreinformation on the martyrs of the Spanish Civil War.)

BLESSED LUKEOF SAINT JOSEPH“As long as God preserves my

vocation, I will not lower myhead in shame for anybodybecause I am a religious ... If wedie for the truth, we will have

triumphed.” Fr. Luke was beatifiedalong with four Carmelite friars from theCalifornia/Arizona Province on October

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Eduardo of the Child Jesus, Pedro of St. Elijah, Vincent of theCross, and Br. Angel of St. Joseph. The Spanish Carmelites had

established a monastery in the city of Durango, Mexico, in 1902,but religious persecution forced them to relocate to the Americancity of Tucson, Arizona, in 1912, where they established twenty-two mission churches in the surrounding mining towns andcamps. Father Luke was the first pastor of the Holy FamilyChurch in Tucson in 1915. He returned to Barcelona, Spain, in1924 and in 1936, when the conflict of the Spanish Civil War brokeout, he was serving as provincial and prior of the Carmelitemonastery there. On Sunday morning of July 19th, the friarsawoke to the sounds of shouting and banging on the doors as themonastery was invaded by anti-clerical militia.*******************************************************MARTYRDOM OF FATHER LUCAS AND COMPANIONS

“The cavalry had set a perimeter with soldiers on the bell tower,on windows inside the cells, and church areas….In the midst of

this chaos, the whole Carmelite community was able to celebrateSunday Mass and pray the Divine Office. As evening drew near,the wounded were transferred to the library where they would besafer and make more space for the incoming troops from thestreet. Early Monday morning, the friars celebrated Mass in themiddle of gunfire, which was heavier than Sunday. Throughoutthe morning, many officers and troops inside came to the

Carmelites to be enrolled in the Scapular of Our Lady of Mt.Carmel. With no reinforcements to relieve the soldiers, it was amatter of time before they could no longer hold down themonastery. Seeing that surrender was inevitable, the Carmelitecommunity gathered in the church and knelt before the BlessedSacrament. Father Lucas, the provincial, proceeded todistribute all the consecrated hosts to be consumed. Shortly after

this, everyone was alerted that there was an agreement tosurrender, with the condition that the lives of the officers, thetroops, the wounded, and the religious be spared…. One friarrecalls: “... all of us were ready to die after having received the


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From left to right: Father Eduardo of the Child Jesus, Father Pedro of St. Elijah, FatherVincent of the Cross, Brother Angel of St. Joseph

Sacrament of Reconciliation and the Eucharist.” The mob hadinfiltrated the monastery by breaking doors and windows. Thecivil guard was able to give some of the friars a safe passageoutside, but the mob became so uncontrollable that there was nolonger any guarantee for their safety. Witnesses testify to seeingFr. Lucas as he came out of the monastery through the smallerdoor adjacent to the tower bell with his face covered with blood,

his head bandaged with a coloured handkerchief, andaccompanied by two civil guards. The mob wanted to lynchFather, but the soldiers forced them back telling them they wanted to take him to the authorities …. Fr. Lucas crossedDiagonal Avenue alone under fire and took refuge before a large portal. A patrol, armed with two rifles, pushed him ruthlesslyonto the Avenue. The patrol approached him again striking himon the head with rifle butts. Fr. Lucas was ordered to walk downthe Avenue and “with an uncertain gait, he staggers slowly downthe Diagonal, his palms joined before his breast praying.” After walking a few yards, he was shot from behind and fell to theground. Wounded, Fr. Lucas was able to crawl some distancebefore he died near a small oak tree in front of a doctor’s clinicon Diagonal Avenue. Fr. Lucas was lying on the ground with hisface turned to the Carmelite monastery until eight o'clock that

night when a Red Cross ambulance came to take away thebody.” (Taken from tusconpriests.blogspot.com.)


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ANGEL PRAT AND SIXTEENCOMPANIONSOn July 28th, 1936, at the railwaystation in Tarrega, Spain, twelve

religious belonging to the Tarregacommunity were arrested and wereshot at dawn on July 29th. Thesemen were: Fr. Ángel Maria PratHostench, the prior, Father EliseoMaria Maneus Besalduch, novice

master, Fr. Anastasio Maria Dorca Coramina, from the community ofOlot (Girona) who had been preaching at Tarrega for the feast of Our

Lady of Mount Carmel, Father Eduardo Maria Serrano Buj, a professor. There were also philosophy students: Bros. Pedro MariaFerrer Marin, Andrés Maria Solé Rovina, Juan Maria Puigmitjà Rubió,Miguel Maria. Soler Sala and Pedro-Tomás MariaPrat Colledecarraraand the lay brother Eliseo Maria Fontdecaba Quiroga, as well as thenovices, Bros. Elías Maria Garre Egea and José Maria Escoto Ruíz.Sister Mary of St. Joseph Badía Flaquer, an enclosed nun from themonastery of Vic, was arrested during the night of August 13 th. She

was killed the same night defending her chastity and witnessing to herconsecration to Christ. Bro. Eufrosino Maria Raga Nadal, a subdeacon and member of the community of Olot was killed on 3 October.Bros. Ludovico Maria Ayet Canós and Angel Maria Presta Batlle,Carmelites from the community of Terrassa (Barcelona) were arrestedon 21 July and imprisoned in the Modelo jail in Barcelona. On 13 August they were shot in the cemetery in Terrassa. The prior of thecommunity of Olot, Fr. Fernando Maria Llobera Puigsech, was killed

in the ditches of Santa Elena of Montjuic (Barcelona) after a summarytrial, and for simply being a religious. On 26 June 2006, the HolyFather, Benedict XVI, signed the decree for their beatification. On 28October 2007 they were declared Blesseds among a group of 498Spanish Martyrs of the 20th Century.

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