Elijah fed by the ravens, by Giovanni Lanfranco. (Credit: Wikicommons.) Listen The witness of the prophet Elijah echoes through the ages. The holy man’s life was filled with intense prayer and ...

The feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, celebrated on July 16, was first instituted in the late 14th century in commemoration of the approval of the rule of the Carmelite Order a hundred years earlier.