Church of the Holy Transfiguration of Christ-on-the-Mount Church of the Holy Transfiguration of Christ-on-the-Mount The Church of the Holy Transfiguration of Christ on the Mount is a modest, single-room, hand-built wooden church near the summit of Meads Mountain in Woodstock, New York, originally constructed c. 1891. Services in the Sarum Rite of the Western Orthodox (Catholic) tradition are held each Sunday morning. It is purported to be the repository of a Marian weeping Icon. In the 1960s, Father Francis, the much-beloved "hippie priest", here welcomed hippies who had congregated in town during those years that culminated in the famous art and music festival. Fr. Francis began the
Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel see the Order gaining increasing patronage from the French Royal house with the appointment of Louis de Berry, future King Louis XVI, as the Orders’ Grand Master in 1757, and the 1778-79 reorganizational reforms where the junior Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel was formally and administratively linked to the "École Militaire Royale" located on the Champs de Mars in Paris. The latter reform allowed the school’s graduates to have the opportunity to becoming members of the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel alone. The École Militaire was closed down by royal decree in October 1787,and no further