Mount Carmel: a link between Garabandal, Lourdes and Fatima

The title Mary gave herself in Garabandal, Spain(1), "Our Lady of Mount Carmel", suggests a link with the apparitions in Lourdes, France and Fatima, Portugal.

"In closing her visits to Lourdes on July 16, 1858, on the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Mary placed the symbol of Mount Carmel at the culmination of a spiritual journey of which the previous apparitions were the necessary stages."(2)

In Fatima, on October 13, 1917, after the Miracle of the Sun, Lucia alone saw Our Lady of Sorrows and Our Lord, who was still blessing the world, and then Our Lady of Mount Carmel giving the scapular.

In Garabandal, Mary herself wearing the scapular invites us to (re)discover its meaning: the devotion of the Carmelite scapular is a variant of the consecration to Jesus by Mary.

F. Breynaert, April 19, 2013

(1) The Marian apparitions of Garabandal refer to the apparitions of the Virgin Mary that took place in the village of San Sebastián de Garabandal in Cantabria, Spain, from 1961 to 1965.

(2) Patrick Sandrin, A ciel ouvert, EDB, Nouan 2013, p. 134-135