Events in November 2025
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Bl. Frances d’Amboise Bl. Frances d’Amboise
5 November 2025
Religious — Optional Memorial
Frances of Amboise (1427-1485) married Pierre II, Duke of Brittany, at the age of 15. Widowed at the age of 30, she vowed not to remarry. With the help of Blessed Jean Soreth, she founded a monastery of nuns near Vannes, where she took the habit. Her concern for the poor, her Marian piety, her zeal for maintaining the fervour of religious life and her devotion to the Eucharist were just some of the features that characterised the spiritual character of the "Good Duchess".
Bl. Frances d’Amboise Bl. Frances d’Amboise
5 November 2025
Religious — Optional Memorial
Frances of Amboise (1427-1485) married Pierre II, Duke of Brittany, at the age of 15. Widowed at the age of 30, she vowed not to remarry. With the help of Blessed Jean Soreth, she founded a monastery of nuns near Vannes, where she took the habit. Her concern for the poor, her Marian piety, her zeal for maintaining the fervour of religious life and her devotion to the Eucharist were just some of the features that characterised the spiritual character of the "Good Duchess".
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St. Nuno of St. Mary (Alvares Pereira) St. Nuno of St. Mary (Alvares Pereira)
6 November 2025
Religious — Optional Memorial
🇵🇹 In Portugal: Memorial
Nuno was born in 1360 and fought for many years as a soldier for the independence of Portugal. After his wife’s death he entered the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel as a brother in the house he had founded in Lisbon, and took the name of Nuno of Saint Mary (1423). He died there in 1431, after distinguishing himself by his prayer, penance, and filial devotion to the Mother of God.
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Bl. Francis of Jesus Mary Joseph (Palau y Quer) Bl. Francis of Jesus Mary Joseph (Palau y Quer)
7 November 2025
Priest — Optional Memorial
Born in Aytona, Lerida, on December 29, 1811, Blessed Francis Palau y Quer entered the Order in 1832 and was ordained priest in 1836. Civil turmoil forced him to live in exile and outside his community. On his return to Spain in 1851, he founded his “School of Virtue”—which was a model of catechetical teaching—at Barcelona. The school was suppressed and he was unjustly exiled to Ibiza (1854-1860) where he lived at El Vedrá in solitude and experienced mystically the vicissitudes of the Church. While in the Balearic Islands he founded the Congregations of Carmelite Brothers and Carmelite Sisters (1860-1861). He preached popular missions and spread love for Our Lady wherever he went. He died at Tarragona on March 20, 1872, and was beatified by Pope John Paul II on April 24, 1980.
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St. Elizabeth of the Trinity (Catez) St. Elizabeth of the Trinity (Catez)
8 November 2025
Virgin — Memorial
Elizabeth Catez of the Trinity was born in 1880 in the diocese of Bourges. In 1901 she entered the Discalced Carmelite monastery of Dijon. There she made her profession of vows in 1903 and from there she was called “to light, to love and to life” by the Divine Spouse in 1906. A faithful adorer in spirit and in truth, her life was a “praise of glory” of the Most Blessed Trinity, present in her soul and loved amidst interior darkness and excruciating illness. In the mystery of divine inhabitation she found her “heaven on earth,” her special charism and her mission for the church.
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ALL SAINTS OF OUR ORDER ALL SAINTS OF OUR ORDER
14 November 2025
Feast
The whole family of Carmel in the homeland, with Mary its Mother at its head, is the reason for our joy and praise to the Father on this day. We recall our brothers and sisters who once dedicated their lives to continual prayer on earth and now share in the worship of heaven. We unite ourselves spiritually to their glory, all the while journeying along the paths they traveled with courage, as they lived in obedience to Christ and followed in the footsteps of Our Lady.
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Commemoration of all the Departed of Our Order Commemoration of all the Departed of Our Order
15 November 2025
🇦🇹 In Austria: Commemoration transferred to November 16
Just as the love of Christ and the service of the Blessed Virgin Mary have brought us together in a single family, fraternal charity unites those of us still striving to lead a life of allegiance to Jesus Christ in this world, and those already awaiting the vision of God in purgatory. Today the whole Order commends our departed brothers and sisters to God’s mercy through the intercession of Our Lady, sure sign of hope and consolation, and begs for their admission to the courts of heaven.
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St. Raphael of St. Joseph (Kalinowski) St. Raphael of St. Joseph (Kalinowski)
19 November 2025
Priest — Memorial
In 🇵🇱 Poland: Memorial transferred to November 20
In 🇦🇹 Austria and 🇩🇪 Germany: Memorial transferred to November 23
Raphael Kalinowski was born to Polish parents in the city of Vilnius in 1835. Following military service, he was condemned in 1864 to ten years of forced labor in Siberia. In 1877 he became a Carmelite and was ordained a priest in 1882. He contributed greatly to the restoration of the Discalced Carmelites in Poland. His life was distinguished by zeal for Church unity and by his unflagging devotion to his ministry as confessor and spiritual director. He died in Wadowice in 1907.
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Bls. Denis of the Nativity, Priest, and Redemptus of the Cross, Religious Bls. Denis of the Nativity, Priest, and Redemptus of the Cross, Religious
29 November 2025
Martyrs — Optional Memorial
In 🇮🇳 India and 🇮🇩 Indonesia: Memorial
Denis of the Nativity, a priest, called in the world Pierre Berthelot, was born in Honfleur in France in 1600. He was a cartographer and naval commander for the kings of Portugal and France before he joined the Discalced Carmelites in Goa in 1635. It was also at Goa that the Portuguese lay brother, Thomas Rodriguez da Cunha, born in 1598, had made his profession in 1615, taking the name Redemptus of the Cross. They were sent to the island of Sumatra, where, in the town of Achen, they received the martyr’s crown on November 29, 1638.
