#history the stories surrounding the figure of Our Lady of Carmen are purely religious, and the writings take the origin of this celebration to Israel, specifically to Mount Carmel Karmel which means garden. In view of a severe drought, the scriptures say that the prophet Elijah promised God that King Ajaab and the people would abandon the god Baal to end the drought, and he climbed Mount Carmel on several occasions to see if his promise would work. It was the seventh time he saw a little cloud there no bigger than the palm of his hand, thus marking the beginning of a story that is commemorated to this day. The fact is that with this connection with Elijah, many believers went to Mount Carmel to venerate the place, and that is where the Order of the Carmelites was born.

There are several miracles attributed to this virgin, and always related to the sea. For example, the one that gave its name to the Mexican city Ciudad del Carmen, in the Campeche region: it is said that on July 16 but in 1717 the Virgen del Carmen managed to defeat the pirates, whom she expelled from the island in the fort of San Felipe. He is also credited with the miracle of Galileo, a merchant ship that wrecked in 1913 off Caño Island, in Costa Rica. Without news from the crew, the ship's owner began a prayer to the Virgen del Carmen for her sailors, but when the whole town was praying in the temple next to him, a ship arrived in port with good news

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