discalced

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In a harsh private letter to Father Felipe Sainz de Baranda, superior of the female and male Discalced Carmelites, the Cardinal indicated that Rome would side with the traditionalist minority in the new constitution.

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Discalced Carmelite Friar William McNamara also understands the lure of the East.

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Thus it was no routine matter last week when the Vatican confirmed that it is usurping this traditional prerogative and writing a new constitution for the Discalced* Carmelite nuns.

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Brief of Sixtus V Erection of the custodia of the Discalced Franciscans in the Philippines into a province Sixtus V, Pope: In perpetual remembrance of the affair.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 06 of 55 1583-1588 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander

Through her exertions other convents of the order adopted the reform, and in 1580 the existence of the Discalced Carmelites as a separate order was approved.

From History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution — Volume 1 by MacCaffrey, James