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The Discalced Carmelite Order is a Roman Catholic Religious Order
founded by St. Teresa of Avila. Her great work of reform began with herself. She made a
vow always to follow the most perfect course, and resolved to keep the rule as perfectly
as she could. A group of nuns assembled in her cell one September evening in
1560, taking their inspiration from the primitive tradition of Carmel and the discalced
reform of St. Peter of Alcantara, proposed the foundation of a monastery of an eremitical
type. On August 24 1562, the new monastery dedicated to St. Joseph was founded. Then in
Duruelo, with St. John of the Cross and Anthony of Jesus founded the first convent of
Discalced Brethren in November 1568.
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