Discalced Carmelite nuns of the Carmel of St. Joseph, Port Tobacco, Maryland, process from their hermitages to welcome the relics of St. Therese to the first Carmel (meaning "garden" in Hebrew) and first religious house founded in the United States in 1790.  (St. Joseph's Carmel was the first place visited by the relics on October 5, 1999.)  Over 140 years before the arrival of the Carmelites from Antwerp, Father Andrew White was the spiritual director at the same Belgian Carmel from which they came. 

Waiting at the monastery gate, the nuns, priests, brothers, secular Carmelites,  and visitors wait expectantly for the van to arrive that will carry the relics across America.  The nuns shower the van with rose petals.

Members of the Secular Carmel of St. Joseph wearing brown scapulars carry the relics of St. Therese to the chapel shown below.  Pilgrims streamed past for over three hours, venerating both the relics and the image of the Holy Face sent by Pope Leo XIII to Southern Maryland.