Simon Stock
Simon Stock, OCarm was an English Catholic priest and saint who lived in the 13th century and was an early prior of the Carmelite Order. The Blessed Virgin Mary is traditionally said to have appeared to him and given him the Brown Scapular. Popular devotion to Saint Simon Stock is usually associated with devotion to Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
Patron saint of Bordeaux; France
In the Martyrology
- May 16 Saint Simon Stock, priest, Carmelite prior general