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| FOUNDATION 1206-1214 MOUNT CARMEL, PALESTINE |  | FOUNDER OF THE RULE BLESSED ALBERT OF JERUSALEM |
| HISTORY | ALBERT OF JERUSALEM | FOUNDATIONS |
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| HISTORY |
| CARMELITE TRADITION TRACES THE ORIGIN OF THE ORDER TO A COMMUNITY OF HERMITS ON MOUNT CARMEL ALTHOUGH THERE ARE NO CERTAIN RECORDS OF MONKS ON THIS MOUNTAIN BEFORE THE 1190’s WHEN A GROUP OF MEN GATHERED AT THE WELL OF ELIJAH. THESE MEN, WHO HAD GONE TO PALESTINE FROM EUROPE EITHER AS PILGRIMS OR AS A CRUSADERS, CHOSE MOUNT CARMEL IN PART BECAUSE IT WAS THE TRADITIONAL HOME OF ELIJAH. BETWEEN 1206 & 1214 THEY RECEIVED A RULE FROM THE PATRIARCH ALBERT OF JERUSALEM. THE RULE OF ST. ALBERT RECEIVED THE APPROVAL OF POPE HONORIUS III IN 1226. WITH THE INCREASING CLEAVAGE BETWEEN THE WEST AND THE EAST, HOWEVER, THE CARMELITES FOUND IT ADVISABLE TO LEAVE THEIR ORIGINAL HOME, AND IN 1238 THEY MOVED TO CYPRUS AND SICILY. OVER THE SUCCEEDING CENTURIES THEY UNDERWENT SEVERAL PERIODS OF REFORM LEADING TO THE FOUNDATION OF NEW BRANCHES. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, THE SECULARIZATION IN GERMANY, AND THE REPERCUSSIONS ON RELIGIOUS ORDERS FOLLOWING THE UNIFICATION OF ITALY WERE HEAVY BLOWS TO THE CARMELITES. BY THE END OF THE 19TH CENTURY, THERE WERE APPROXIMATELY 200 CARMELITE FRIARS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY NEW LEADERSHIP ALLOWED A REBIRTH OF THE ORDER. EXISTING PROVINCES BEGAN REFOUNDING PROVINCES THAT HAD GONE OUT OF EXISTENCE. BY 2001, THE MEMBERSHIP HAD INCREASED GREATLY TO APPROXIMATELY 2,100 FRIARS, 700 ENCLOSED NUNS, AND 13 AFFILIATED CONGREGATIONS AND INSTITUTES. |
| AUSTRALIAN FOUNDATION |
| THE FIRST CARMELITES TO ARRIVE IN AUSTRALIA WERE TWO LAY TERTIARIES SENTENCED TO TRANSPORTATION IN 1798. THEY WERE FOLLOWED IN 1824 BY A CARMELITE PRIEST, FR SAMUEL COOTE BUT IT WAS NOT UNTIL 1881 THAT A FORMAL FOUNDATION WAS MADE IN THIS COUNTRY BY THE IRISH PROVINCE AT THE REQUEST OF DR REYNOLDS, BISHOP OF ADELAIDE. IN THAT YEAR FIVE CARMELITE FRIARS LED BY FR JOSEPH BUTLER FOUNDED THE FIRST CARMELITE FRIARY IN AUSTRALIA AT THE TOWN OF GAWLER IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA. IN 1882 THE CARMELITES EXTENDED THEIR APOSTOLATE TO MELBOURNE FOLLOWED BY BRISBANE (1936) AND SYDNEY (1946). ALTHOUGH THEIR APOSTOLATE WAS PRIMARILY IN PARISH WORK THEY ALSO OPENED A SCHOOL AT DONVALE IN 1961. IN 1930 THE AUSTRALIAN HOUSES BECAME A COMMISSARIAT AND IN 1948 A PROVINCE DEDICATED TO OUR LADY HELP OF CHRISTIANS. FROM AUSTRALIA MISSIONS ALSO WENT OUT TO NEW ZEALAND AND EAST TIMOR. DESPITE A DECLINE IN NUMBERS SHARED WITH OTHER RELIGIOUS ORDERS, THE CARMELITE FATHERS AND BROTHERS TODAY CONTINUE TO RESPOND TO THE NEEDS OF THE TIME AND TO SERVE THEIR PARISHIONERS. |
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| FOUNDATIONS | ||||
THE FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF ALL CARMELITE FOUNDATIONS IN AUSTRALIA. FOUNDATIONS MADE OUTSIDE AUSTRALIA ARE NOT INCLUDED. | ||||
| PROVINCE OF OUR LADY HELP OF CHRISTIANS | ||||
ALBERT PARK |
BRIGHTON |
COORPAROO |
DONCASTER / DONVALE |
GAWLER |
HILTON |
HUNTERS HILL |
KEW |
LAWSON |
MIDDLE PARK |
PENNINGTON |
PORT ADELAIDE |
PORT MELBOURNE |
OLD TOONGABBIE |
WAHROONGA |
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WARBURTON |
WENTWORTHVILLE |
WOODVILLE |
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