Saint Albert of Trapani - British Province of Carmelite Friars

Mantua.
In the liturgical reform mandated by Vatican II the Order was permitted to
celebrate Saint Albert liturgically on 7 August with the rank of feast. The
proper texts used by the old branch of the Order were completely rewritten,
because the preceding rhymed texts were no longer usable. The hymns
remain as before, but revised and corrected by the Benedictine Dom
Anselmo Lentini. The plan of the Mass texts aims to set out the main
features of the saint as religious, Carmelite, and benefactor of the people.
3. Liturgical cult of Saint Albert in the Teresian Carmel
The importance which the cult of Saint Albert had assumed in the Order
passed via Saint Teresa of Jesus (of Avila) to the Discalced Reform. In the
“ancient” Constitutions of the nuns (1576) and the “definitive” ones of
1581, Saint Teresa included the feast of “our father Saint Albert” among the
days for Holy Communion. The saint also heads the list of Saint Teresa’s
holy protectors, according to the autograph transmitted to us by Ribera. We
should also recall that Saint Teresa wanted a picture of Saint Albert painted
for the monastery of Toledo, and persuaded a Dominican (perhaps Diego de
Yanguas) to translate an old biography from Latin, and then arranged that it
be printed by Don Teutonio de Braganza along with the Way of Perfection.
A statue of Saint Albert in the main altar façade of the Incarnation Monastery in Avila,
Spain,
where Saint Teresa began her Carmelite life.
Another sign of how substantial the cult of “our father Saint Albert” was
at the beginning of the Discalced Reform is the decision of the chapter of
Madrid in 1590 about giving names to the first Discalced provinces. Apart
from the name of Saint Elijah given to Castile, the only other saint of the