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One of the most famous aspects of devotion to Our Lady of Mount Carmel is the scapular. According to tradition, the Virgin Mary appeared on July 16, 1251, to Saint Simon Stock, Superior General of the Carmelite Order, in England, and gave him a scapular.

The story of the Blessed Virgin of Lourdes is linked to the Marian apparitions that took place in 1858 in Lourdes, a small town in the southwest of France. These events have become one of the most famous Catholic pilgrimages in the world.

The story of Our Lady of Guadalupe begins in December 1531, when the Virgin Mary appeared to Juan Diego, a Nahua indigenous man who had recently converted to Christianity, on the hill of Tepeyac (near Mexico City). She asked him to build a church there. To convince the bishop, she left a miraculous proof: her image imprinted on Juan Diego's tilma (cloak).