Simon Stock and the island of saints

Abstract

The following article aims at showing not the news about Saint Simon Stock, rather its antiquity. The book by Peter Magennis will be used as the exclusive source, with its particular contribution and illumination on the life of the saint. In 1920, in the Carmelite Monastery of New York, the Prior General of the Order wrote The Life of Saint Simon Stock. His work reveals information about the saint and his context and reconstructs the origins of the Carmelite Order in the West. In the following pages, the fundamental points of Magennis work will be studied, and how this work brings to light forgotten or hidden aspects of the history, culture and piety of England.