We begin on this feast day as Mount Carmel has a long-standing biblical history. In the OT it is where Elijah had a showdown with the prophets of Baal. In the 12th century, Carmelites built a church dedicated to the Blessed Virgin and established an Order which spread to Europe.

St. Simon Stock called upon Mary in the midst of great persecutions and she handed him the brown scapular as a "sign of salvation", a "safeguard in danger", and a "special pledge of peace and protection until the end of time".

In her last appearance to the children at Fatima, Mary appeared as Our Lady of Carmel holding the infant, Jesus.

On September 19, 1846 in the parish of La Salette in the French Alps, Mary appeared to two young children, Melanie age 14, and Maximin age 11.

They noticed a bright light "much brighter than the sun", and saw in the light a beautiful lady seated with her head in her hands. They could see tears streaming down her face.

She told the children that unless people repented, the crops would fail and their would be famine. She explained that she was holding back the hand of her Son with her prayers for people who worked on Sundays, did not attend Mass, and used God's name in vain. She asked the children to pray at least an Our Father and Hail Mary at night and in the morning.

This apparition appeared in Knock Ireland on August 21, 1879. As the housekeeper walked past the chapel, she noticed a bright light shadowing what looked like three figures she guessed were new statues that the priest had purchased.

Upon closer examination, she saw against the gable wall actual people: Mary, St. Joseph, and St. John.

She ran to tell others and 18 people ranging from six to seventy years old came and witnessed the vision. Mary was in the center wearing white with a large crown on her head.

Many cures have been reported here and the church noted the apparition as probably in 1971.

She is also know as Our Lady of Silence.

With the apparitions of Our Lady of Atika, unlike the other apparitions, Sister Agnes Sasagawa heard the Blessed Virgin’s messages through a wooden statue and not a traditional appearance. Sister Agnes had already been experiencing signs of supernatural works before the apparitions, seeing a bright light emerging from the tabernacle at her convent, and receiving the stigmata in 1973.

Much like the story of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, Sister Agnes was led to the statue by what is believed to be her guardian angel, and on three different occasions, the statue spoke to her with messages similar to Our Lady of Fatima to the three children.

Along with these messages, countless miracles have been attributed to Our Lady of Akita, such as the healing of Sister Agnes’s hearing, the sisters finding the statue bleeding from a wound in her hand, and the statue crying 101 times over the course of eight years.