Editing Carmelites (section)

===Habit and scapular===
[[File:Coustumes - Carmes.png|thumb|left|Calced Carmelite.|alt=]]
[[File:Coustumes - Carmes déchaussés.png|thumb|upright|Discalced Carmelite.|alt=]]
[[File:Coustumes - Carmelites.png|thumb|left|Calced Carmélites.|alt=]]
[[File:Coustumes - Carmelites déchaussées.png|thumb|upright|Discalced Carmelite.|alt=]]

{{Scapulars}}
In 1287, the original way of life of the order was changed to conform to that of the [[mendicant orders]] on the initiative of [[Simon Stock]] and at the command of [[Pope Innocent IV]]. Their former habit of a mantle with black and white or brown and white stripes{{snd}}the black or brown stripes representing the scorches the mantle of Elijah received from the fiery chariot as it fell from his shoulders{{snd}}was discarded. They wore the same habit as the [[Dominican Order|Dominicans]], except that the [[cloak]] was white. They also borrowed much from the Dominican and [[Franciscan]] constitutions. Their distinctive garment was a [[scapular]] of two strips of dark cloth, worn on the breast and back, and fastened at the shoulders. Tradition holds that this was given to Simon Stock by the [[Blessed Virgin Mary]], who appeared to him and promised that all who wore it with faith and piety and who died clothed in it would be saved.<ref>{{cite web |website=[[EWTN]] |title=Brown Scapular or Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel |url=http://www.ewtn.com/expert/answers/brown_scapular.HTM |first1=Colin B. |last1=Donovan |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706000907/http://www.ewtn.com:80/expert/answers/brown_scapular.HTM |archive-date= Jul 6, 2019 }}</ref><ref>Matthew Bunson, 2008, ''The Catholic Almanac'', {{ISBN|978-1-59276-441-9}} p. 155</ref><ref>Gerald M. Costello, 2001, ''Treasury of Catholic Stories'', OSV Press, {{ISBN|978-0-87973-979-9}}, p. 128</ref> There arose a [[Sodality (Catholic Church)|sodality]] of the scapular, which affiliated a large number of laymen with the Carmelites.

[[File:Brown scapular showing the Blessed Virgin of Mount Carmel, E Wellcome L0058985.jpg|thumb|left|Brown Scapular.|alt=]]
A miniature version of the Carmelite scapular is popular among Catholics and is one of the most popular [[Catholic devotions|devotions]] in the church. Wearers usually believe that if they faithfully wear the Carmelite scapular (also called "the brown scapular" or simply "the scapular") and die in a state of [[divine grace|grace]], they will be saved from [[hell|eternal torment]]. Catholics who decide to wear the scapular are usually enrolled by a [[Presbyter|priest]], and some choose to enter the Scapular [[Confraternity]]. The Lay Carmelites of the [[Third Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel]] wear a scapular which is smaller than the shortened scapular worn by some Carmelite religious for sleeping, but still larger than the devotional scapulars.