Mount Carmel
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Mount Carmel, also known in Arabic as Mount Mar Elias, is a coastal mountain range in northern Israel stretching from the Mediterranean Sea towards the southeast. The range is a UNESCO biosphere reser
The southern tip of Mount Carmel at sunset, as seen from the entrance to Kibbutz Ma'agan Michael
A view of Mount Carmel
Coloured postcard of "Haifa, Mount Carmel", by Karimeh Abbud, c. 1925
Distribution of the Neanderthal, and main sites, including Tabun cave, 500,000 to around 40,000 BP
Carmelites
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The Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel, known as the Carmelites or sometimes by synecdoche known simply as Carmel, is a mendicant order in the Catholic Church for both me
Mount Carmel
…towns on the eastern slopes of Mount Carmel: Daliyat al-Karmel and Isfiya. A Catholic religious order was founded on Mount Carmel in 1209, named the Carmelites, in reference to the mountain range; the founder of the Carmelites is still unknown (d.1265). In the original Rule or 'Letter of Life' given by Albert…
Coat of arms of the order
The Prophet Elijah (here ascending to heaven while Elisha is looking on, 14th-century glass window) is regarded as the spiritual father of the Carmelite order.
Ruins of the first church on the slopes of Mount Carmel
The Martyrdom of the Carmelites marked the end of the hermit life of the Carmelites on Mount Carmel