They built in the midst of their hermitages a chapel which they dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, whom they conceived of in chivalric terms as the "Lady of the place."

The institution of the feast may have come in the wake of the vindication of their title "Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary" at Cambridge, England, in 1374.

A tradition first attested to in the late 14th century says that Simon Stock, believed to be an early English prior general of the Carmelite Order soon after its migration to England,[5] had a vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary in which she gave him the Brown Scapular.

[7] In 1642, a Carmelite named John Cheron published a document which he said was a 13th-century letter written by Simon Stock's secretary, Peter Swanington.

Based on available historical documentation, the liturgical feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel did not originally have a specific association with the Brown Scapular or the tradition of Stock's vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Vatican II resorted to scrutiny of the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, as well as that of Simon Stock, because of the historical uncertainties about the origins.

An annual festival, known as Mamacha Carmen, is held in the highland Paucartambo District, Peru, featuring a procession with the Virgin and traditional dancers.

Veneration of the Virgen del Carmen (often also associated with the Stella Maris) is particularly strong in coastal towns of Spain.

The feast day of Our Lady of Mount Carmel is celebrated for ten days each July in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, where an approximately sixty-five foot tall "giglio" – a tower with a statue of Our Lady of Mount Carmel affixed atop it – is lifted and paraded on multiple dates during the festival.

[12] In the Bronx neighborhood of Belmont (Little Italy), a procession is held on 187th street, where the parish church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel is located.

In the town of Hammonton New Jersey the feast is commemorated each year with a week long festival culminating with a parade of saints on the sixteenth.

Celebration of the feast has been ongoing since 1875 and is widely recognized as the longest running Italian American festival in the United States.

Carmel, fruitful vine, splendor of Heaven, Blessed Mother of the Son of God, Immaculate Virgin, assist me in my necessity.

O Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth, I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to succor me in this necessity (make request).

On the 19th of April 1901, the regent María Cristina de Habsburgo and the minister of Marina Cristóbal Colón de la Cerda, duke of Veragua, signed the Real Orden (Order) in which the Lady of Mount Carmel (Santísima Virgen del Carmen) was proclaimed as patron of the Spanish Army.

In the general chapter of London (1254), the Carmelites were ordered to confer in Spain, thus in 1270, the first founding of some of the most important cities in Aragón took place.

During the XVI century, Saint Theresa of Jesus and John of the Cross introduced profound reforms in the senate of the Order.

Most cities and villages in Spain practically participate in a religious manner toward Our Lady of Mount Carmel, where processions and maritime pilgrimages using her image take part every 16 of July.

In the Cordoba capital, we can observe two great devotions with this advocacy: Our Lady of Mount Carmel in San Cayetano and in Puerta Nueva.

It was inserted in its entirety (except for the words forbidding the painting of the pictures) into the list of the indulgences and privileges of the Confraternity of the Scapular of Mount Carmel.

There is today a small sanctuary at Acquafondata, Italy, where the Virgin of Mount Carmel reportedly appeared on 16 July 1841.

For 17 days preceding this earthquake, many of the faithful had reported strange eye movements and changes in the coloring of the face in a statue of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

[citation needed] The first atomic bomb was exploded in the United States at the Trinity test site on 16 July 1945, near Alamogordo, New Mexico.

Emmanuel Charles McCarthy, a priest of the Eastern Rite (Byzantine-Melkite) of the Catholic Church, initiated the "16 July Twenty-Four Hours Day of Prayer," for forgiveness and protection from Our Lady of Mount Carmel, at Trinity Site in the New Mexico desert.

Each year on 16 July, a prayer vigil is conducted at the Trinity site to pray for peace and the elimination of nuclear weapons.