The Prior General and his Council are pleased to announce that in response to a formal request made by the Dutch Province on the 14th April 2014, regarding the women associated with the Province over a period of thirty years, and with their unanimous assent of the women themselves, the Prior General and his council agreed to the erection of a sodalitium of the Third Order in the communities of Boxmeer, Zenderen, Nijmegen and Almelo. At the end of the Provincial Chapter held at Denekamp, in The Netherlands, from the 7th to 11th May 2014, Fr. Fernando Millán Romeral, O.Carm, announced that the General Council had accepted the request, thus establishing for this group a sodalitum of the Third Order in conformity with the Code of Canon Law 312:3 and the Third Order Rule, n. 56. In doing so, the group becomes formally part of the Carmelite Family.