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Our Lady of Mount Carmel, an Uncommon card
Our Lady of Mount Carmel, or Virgin of Carmel, is a Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary venerated as patroness of the Carmelites of the Ancient Observance and the Discalced Carmelites.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 65
- Power
- 134
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 110,000
Power 134 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Our Lady of Mount Carmel quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Our Lady of Mount Carmel card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The first ______ were hermits living on Mount Carmel in the Holy Land during the late 12th and early to mid-13th centuries.
Answer
Carmelites. The first Carmelites were hermits living on Mount Carmel in the Holy Land during the late 12th and early to mid-13th centuries. From the Our Lady of Mount Carmel article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Kolmogorov complexity. Kolmogorov complexity 78 · Duchy of Burgundy 75 · Army 72 · Our Lady of Mount Carmel 69 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Duchy of Burgundy. Duchy of Burgundy 150,000 · Our Lady of Mount Carmel 110,000 · Zapotec civilization 84,000 · Cumae 46,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The first Carmelites were hermits living on Mount Carmel in the Holy Land during the late 12th and early to mid-13th centuries.
- They built in the midst of their hermitages a chapel which they dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, whom they conceived of in chivalric terms as the "Lady of the place." Our Lady of Mount Carmel was adopted in the 19th century as the patron saint of Chile.
- Since the 15th century, popular devotion to Our Lady of Mount Carmel has centred on the Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, also known as the Brown Scapular.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Our Lady of Mount Carmel article was read about 110,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 65: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
How to get Our Lady of Mount Carmel
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Our Lady of Mount Carmel (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Pietro Novelli, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
