Paperback: The Carmelites is the most complete history of the Order, compiled by Fr Joachim Smet for over forty years. Volumes were printed and released individually from 1977 until 1985. Each volume contains extensive notes and an index. Volume I covers circa 1200 until the Council of Trent; Volume II the Post Tridentine Period (1550-1600); Volume III, comprising of two parts, covers the Catholic Reformation (1600-1750).
This volume, The Carmelites Volume II: The Post Tridentine Period 1550-1600, was published by the Carmelite Spiritual Center in 1976.
About the author: Father Joachim Smet, Order of Carmelites, the oldest Carmelite in the Chicago Carmelite Province, died 4 October 2011. He was 95. Father Joachim was born in Chicago, IL, on 9 October 1915.
He entered the Province of the Most Pure Heart of Mary, Order of Carmelites, and was ordained a priest in 1942. He held a bachelor's degree in Library Science from the University of Chicago, a master's degree in Latin from the Catholic University of America, and a doctorate in Ecclesiastical History from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy.
Among his assignments were Latin and English teacher at Mount Carmel High School in Chicago, IL, Assistant Novice Master at New Baltimore, PA, founding member of the Institutum Carmelitanum at the Collegio Internazionale de Sant' Alberto in Rome, Italy, editor of Carmelus, a journal of Carmelite Studies, President of the Institutum Carmelitanum in Rome; Assistant General of the Carmelite Order at the Carmelite General Curia in Rome. A gifted writer, he is well-known for his four-volume work The Carmelites and his Life of Saint Peter Thomas.
His other works are Familiar Matter of Today-Poems (2007), The Mirror of Carmel: A Brief History of the Carmelite Order, (2011), various publications on Carmelite Nuns, Carmelite Liturgy, Carmelite Libraries of Spain and Portugal and the Carmelites of Medieval England.
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