Fivefold Scapular - The White Scapular

The White Scapular

The White Scapular of the Most Holy Trinity is the usual habit of the Secular Third Order of the Most Holy Trinity and is worn also by members of the Confraternity of the same Order (the Trinitarians). St. John de Matha during his first Mass (around 1193) had a vision of Christ between two captives (http://www.trinitari.org). The Christian captive had a staff with a red and blue cross on the top in the Greek form (+). From this vision he founded the Order of the Holy Trinity and Captives (the Trinitarian Order) whose charism was to liberate Christians taken into captivity by the moors and to glorify the Holy Trinity (today it is still seeking the glory of the Holy Trinity and the liberation to captives).