The visions and messages also encouraged the wearing of the Brown Scapular.

In some cases the monastic scapular was used to distinguish the rank or level of the wearer within a religious order.

The nature of the spiritual help associated with the Brown Scapular came to be described in greater detail and specificity.

The Brown Scapular has been praised by numerous popes.

There is also a Confraternity of the Brown Scapular.

The Rosary and the Scapular have received papal endorsements through the centuries.

He also noted that he wears the Brown Scapular in connection to this religious faith.

Images sewn onto the Brown Scapular are unnecessary.

The Brown Scapular itself remains warmly approved and recommended by the Catholic Church.

Devotees of the Brown Scapular have sometimes been accused of straying into superstition.

Saint Simon instituted the confraternity of the Brown Scapular.

The Blue Scapular was highly praised by Clement X.

A central belief about the Brown Scapular is its signification of the wearer's consecration to Mary.

The devotion of the Black Scapular requires only that it be made of black woollen cloth.

When he briefly gained consciousness before being operated on, he instructed the doctors not to remove his Brown Scapular during the operation.

Their habit consisted of a black tunic and a blue Scapular, in honor of the Virgin Mary.

Any Catholic priest may invest a baptised Catholic with the Brown Scapular.

The White Scapular of the Most Blessed Trinity (1193)

The White Scapular of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (1877)

The White Scapular of St. Joseph (1898)

The Fivefold Scapular is made of five of the most popular scapulars sewn together on the top and connected to a single shared string.

Two well known Marian devotions are the Rosary recitation and the wearing of the Brown Scapular.

The only requirement is that the Green Scapular be blessed by a priest and worn or carried by the person wishing to benefit by it.

For instance, the Carmelite constitution of 1281 prescribed that the Scapular should be worn to bed under penalty of serious fault.

The White Scapular of Our Lady of Ransom (1218)