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 Carmel of the Holy Spirit in Sheffield has been home to some of ... whose sister was a Carmelite nun. The sisters have lived there ever since and because the Carmelites are a closed order ...

“Our only wish is that the dismissed members of the Carmel would repent, so that the monastic property could again be rightly called a monastery, inhabited by Discalced Carmelite Nuns, in good ...