These Carmelite convents were established throughout Europe, with nuns devoted to a cloistered life based on the original rule of Saint Albert, which emphasized solitude, silence, prayer, and fasting.

The Carmelite Nuns have left their home at a Christoval monastery. Site of a 'life of prayer and work,' what will be next for ...

In 1978 the monastery shut down because 10 of the 11 nuns remaining there were either too ill or too old to remain.

Garvey Manor administrator Sister Joachim Anne Ferenchak, of the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm, entered religious life in 1967. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski In Youngstown ...

He is based in St. Louis. After a string of controversies, a group of Carmelite nuns in Arlington, Texas, announced that they are associating with the Society of St. Pius X.