Mount Carmel High School - Oriflamme Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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SEM Administration - the Faculty l-IALLS CF CARMEL these are the halls Where under the kindly guidance ot the Carmelite Fathers the students receive a true Catholic edu Q3 cation Where strong friendships are made he tween priests and students Where Catholic boys are rnade into Catholic rnen prepared spiritually intellectually and physically These are the Halls ot Carrnel and they will ever echo the glorious tradition that is Carmel s f 2 . . . . . - I . . I I I . . , . I 1 1 1 I , X. Q , V C X - u , XX 1-v I, . 1 , f vi rf'

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REV RAPHAEL KIEFER REV ANSELM WERNER O OC REV URBAN I-AGER REV CHRYSOSTOM f Sf ANDERSON O RSV. IULIUS MERATZ REXA TERRENQE FITZGERALD O. Corm.. amish i t C.. 6lCll fb EPORE the coming of Christ the prophet Elias with a band of followers living on Mount Carmel in Palestine dedi cated their lives to the Virgin who would be the mother of God Their Christian suc cessors devoted their lives to the service of God until they were driven from the I-loly Land by persecution In Europe they found a new home but the persecution continued St Simon Stock Superior General of the Order prayed to Our Lady of Mt Carmel to give him a sign that she approved of the labors of the Order On luly 16th 1251 Mary appeared to him and gave him the Brown Scapular promising that Whosoever shall die wear ing this Scapular shall never suffer he pains of hell Fired with zeal by this commission the Carmelites went forth preaching and teach ing devotion to Marys Scapular They accompanied Columbus to America but no permanent foundation was made until 865 The idea of a Catholic educational 1nst1 tution in Woodlawn was conceived by the Carmelites in 1902 and carried out in the founding of St Cyril s College It became evident however in 1924 that the school had outgrown its old quarters necessi tating an expansion program which re sulted in the present Mt Carmel the name being changed at that time in honor of Our Lady of Mt Carmel the special patroness of the school and of the Order The old building is still being used for a chapel a priests refectory a school cafeteria and a library besides accommodating the offices of the Little Flower Society. For location environment and accessi- bility Mt. Carmel is ideally situated. The school building faces east on Dante Avenue at Sixty-fourth Street. On the north is the Carmelite Monastery and on the south St. Cyrils Parish Rectory To the south is a district almost exclu- sively residential, and yet a moments walk in a northerly direction will bring one to the shopping section of Woodlawn. The Electrified Illinois Central Suburban Service has a station within a block of the school, and provides fast convenient service for the entire South Shore district, as well as +5tl3lf'f