Carmelite Monastery in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, is a Carmelite religious house with roots in the Catholic Carmelite tradition. Source notes describe it as the Carmelite Monastery of Our Lady and St. Elizabeth and trace its origin through earlier Carmelite foundations, including Port Tobacco, Maryland. The Carmel foundation was established with episcopal and papal permission and was founded under the title of Our Lady Mediatrix of All Graces and Saint Therese.