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I am a Carmelite contemplative living an eremitical style of life in a monastery, in the Teresian Carmelite tradition. My rule is the rule of the Carmelite Desert houses and an adaptation of the Primitive Rule of St. Albert who wrote the rule for Carmelites some time between 1206 and 1214....
Andre Blanchard obtained in 1641 the papal approbation for the foundation of a convent at La Graville near Bernos, in France, where the original rule of St. Albert, without the mitigations of Innocent IV should be kept, and the, life led by the hermits on Mount Cannel copied; all went ...
The Carmelites are a Roman Catholic religious order and one of the four great mendicant orders of the church, dating to the Middle Ages. The order includes the Discalced Carmelites, founded by St. Teresa of Avila in 1562.