5. The Carmelites derive their pedigree in regular
succession from the prophet Elijah (see the Theses of
Beziers, A.D. 1682, in Bayle's Nouvelles de la Republique
des Lettres, (Euvres, tom. i. p. 82, etc.; and the prolix
irony of the Ordres Monastiques, an anonymous work, tom. i.
p. l-433; Berlin, 1751). Rome and the inquisition of Spain
silenced the profane criticism of the Jesuits of Flanders
(Helyot, Hist. des Ordres Monastiques tom. i. p. 282-300),
and the statue of Elijah the Carmelite has been erected in
the church of St. Peter (Voyages du P. Labat, tom. iii. p.
87).