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- Saint Simon Stock is often depicted in the representation of a Carmelite friar holding a scapular or receiving it from the Blessed Virgin. He is also shown surrounded by and praying for souls in purgatory, underscoring his devotion to intercession.
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Simon Stock, OCarm was an English Catholic priest and saint who lived in the 13th century and was an early prior of the Carmelite order. The Blessed Virgin Mary is traditionally said to have appeared to him and given him the Carmelite habit, the Brown Scapular. [1]
Simon Stock founded many Carmelite Communities, especially in University towns such as Cambridge, Oxford, Paris, and Bologna, and he helped to change the Carmelites from a hermit Order to one of mendicant friars. In 1254 he was elected Superior-General of his Order at London.
Saint Simon Stock, an Englishman who lived in the 13th century, is a celebrated saint in the Catholic Church. He was a hermit and lived in hollowed-out trunks of trees, which is how he got his name 'Stock' meaning 'tree stump'.
St. Simon governed the order with great sanctity and prudence during twenty years, and propagated it exceedingly from England over all Europe being himself famous for his eminent virtue, and a great gift of miracles and prophecy.
The first biographical accounts of Simon belong to the year 1430, but these are not entirely reliable. However, he was not at this time publicly venerated as a saint; it was not until 1435 that his feast was put in the choral books of the monastery at Bordeaux.
Saint Simon Stock, also known as Simon Anglus or Simon the Englishman, is a revered figure in the Catholic Church. Born around 1165 in Aylesford, County Kent, England, little is known about his early life.
St. Simon Stock is most famously known as the patron saint of the Carmelite Order. His vision of the Virgin Mary and the scapular, a piece of clothing worn as a devotional object, is central to his patronage.
