A priest relates how one day in a town near Chicago he was called to the bedside of a man who had been away
from the Sacraments for many years. „The man did not want to see me: he would not talk. Then I asked him to look at
the little Scapular I was holding. „Will you wear this if I put it on you? I ask nothing more.‟ He agreed to wear it, and
within the hour he wanted to go to confession and make his peace with God. This did not surprise me, because for
over 700 years Our Lady has been working in this way through Her Scapular.”
On the very day that Our Lady gave the Scapular to St. Simon Stock, he was hurriedly called by Lord Peter of
Linton: “Come quickly, Father, my brother is dying in despair!” St. Simon Stock left at once for the bedside of the
dying man. Upon arrival he placed his large Scapular over the man, asking Our Blessed Mother to keep Her promise.
Immediately the man repented, and died in the grace and friendship of God. That night the dead man appeared to his
brother and said, I have been saved through the most powerful Queen and the habit of that man as a shield.”
St. Alphonsus tells us: “Modern heretics make a mockery of wearing the Scapular. They decry it as so much trifling
nonsense.” Yet we know that many of the Popes have approved and recommended it. It is remarkable that just 25
years after the Scapular Vision, Blessed Pope Gregory X was buried wearing the Scapular. When his tomb was
opened 600 years after his death, his Scapular was found intact.
Two great founders of Religious Orders, St. Alphonsus, of the Redemptorists and St.John Bosco of the Salesians
had a very special devotion to Our Lady of Mount Carmel and both wore Her Brown Scapular. When they died, each
was buried in his priestly vestments and Scapular. Many years later, their graves were opened, the bodies and sacred
vestments in which they were buried were decayed-dust! BUT THE BROWN SCAPULAR WHICH EACH WAS
WEARING WAS PERFECTLY INTACT. The Scapular of St. Alphonsus is on exhibit in his Monastery in Rome.