Carmelite:

(also ‘White Friar‘; plural: ‘Carmelites‘; pronunciation: the letters ‘car’ rhyme with the word “car”)

a member of the community of monks and nuns of the R.C.M. religion (a Roman Catholic religious order — the order of Our Lady of Carmel)

a Carmelite nun

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Carmelites wear a brown and white habit and live by certain standards, and, like all other Catholic orders, preach Christianity to the non-Christians in order to convert them to Christianity.

The followers of Carmelite order name themselves ‘Carmelites’ after a mount named Carmel near Israel.

To know the history of the Carmelite Order, please click here, for a present day status of the Carmelite Order, please click here.

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