Origins
When the Discalced Carmelite Order was juridically erected in 1593, its superiors retained the power granted by Pope Nicholas V in the bull "Cum Nulla" of 1452 to organize lay persons, but they forbade lay persons from membership in the Order and incorporated this decision into the Constitutions of 1581 and 1592. After the Order was divided in 1600 into the Spanish and Italian congregations, both of these maintained exclusion of lay persons but included as an apostolate investing lay persons with their Scapular. In the late 17th Century efforts were made that led to the erection of a secular order, beginning in Belgium and then in France and Italy. In 1699 a rule of life for seculars was privately published with provincial approval in Liege, Belgium. in 1708 in Marseille, France, a full Carmelite rule of life for secular women was published, being the first known and true rule of life for the Secular Order. The Marseille Rule seems to recognize the presence of already existing Secular Order communities in France, Spain, Italy, Germany, and Belgium and attempt to impose some degree of uniformity on independent Secular Order communities..
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