Case file · Apparition / miracle
Simon Stock's vision of the scapular
Carmelite tradition says that on 16 July 1251 the Virgin Mary appeared to the English prior Simon Stock and gave him the brown scapular, promising salvation to those who wore it.
1251 CE · 51.30, 0.48 · status: legend
The account
The devotion spread worldwide. The Carmelite friary at Aylesford, Kent, where Simon is believed to have lived, keeps his skull as a relic.
The sceptical view
The first written mention of the vision dates from the late 14th century, more than 100 years later; some traditions place it at Cambridge.