Blessed Mary of Jesus Crucified
(The Little Arab)
was born of the Baouardy family, Catholics of the Greek Melkite Rite, at Abellin in Galilee in 1846. In 1867 she entered the Discalced Carmelites at Pau in France and was sent with the founding group to the Carmel in Mangalore in India where, in 1870, she made her profession. She returned to France in 1872. In 1875 she went to the Holy Land where she built a monastery in Bethlehem and began planning for another in Nazareth. Noted for her supernatural gifts, especially for humility, for her devotion to the Holy Spirit, and her great 
love for the Church and the Pope, she died at Bethlehem in 1878.
love for the Church and the Pope, she died at Bethlehem in 1878.
From the Carmelite Proper
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Peace be with you!
Rosemarie, OCDS
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