Carmelites

Carmelites - monastic Catholic begging award Presvjatoj of Maiden Maria. It is based in the middle of XII century during crusades by the monks who arrived to the Sacred Earth from the Western Europe and have lodged at a source of St. Ilii on a grief Karmel. The founder of an award crusader Bertold Calabrian under which request patriarch Albert Ierusalimsky in 1214 has made the monastic charter, differing is considered especial severity the Purpose of monastic life of Carmelites — a unification good luck by an incessant prayer. The charter of Carmelites is extremely strict, attaches great value to an ascesis and includes even restriction of verbal dialogue, the great attention is given to honoring of the Virgin. In Belarus the award of Carmelites of barefooted parishioners living on alms operated. Large monasteries settled down in Grodno and Deep.
Monasteries of Carmelites are now in the majority of the countries of Europe and America. Carmelites work in Belarus (4 arrivals), Ukraine (in Kiev and Berdichev), and also in Russia (Usolye-Siberian, the Irkutsk region).