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Saint Francis Veil Company is family owned and operated. It is our goal to provide women and girls with beautiful and affordable traditional Catholic chapel veils.All of our chapel veils, bridal and first communion veils are made in America. We make every effort to select fabrics of exceptional quality. Our choices are meant to enhance the traditional nature of our product.
Our Bridal line includes veils for the bride, bride’s maids, flower girls and mothers of the bride and groom.
Our mission statement is ‘Providing you with all your veils from your Everyday to your Wedding Day!’
I began by making traditional chapel veils for members of my parish and for other traditionally minded Catholic women. We take pride in our craftsmanship and are committed to providing veils ranging from elegant to simple. Special order designs are also available upon request.
The chapel veil, mantilla, or head covering finds it roots in the Old Testament. The women of that time period wore veils on their heads both in houses of worship and outside the home. This had not changed much by the time of Our Lord; in fact Our Blessed Lady wore a veil in keeping with the tradition of the society and culture in which she lived.
In the Apostolic days of the Church, St. Paul wrote in his Epistle to the Corinthians, “but every women praying or prophesying with her head not covered, disgraceth her head,” (Corinthians 11:5).
Traditionally women continued to cover their heads with chapel veils in houses of worship throughout the early days of the Church, into the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Counterreformation, Enlightenment and so on. Throughout the entire history of the Church this has been a custom that has been observed. Though over the course of the last fifty years chapel veils have all but disappeared from some places, it is a custom still held dear by those who identify as Traditional Catholics, who attend the Latin Tridentine Mass and other traditionally minded Catholics in the wider Church as well. The chapel veil is not something that was abolished; in fact when His Holiness the Pope met with the President and First Lady late last year, she was seen to wear a veil as is the custom for all women having an audience with the Holy Father. If one goes veiled before the Holy Father, then it only follows that one should go veiled before Our Lord in his Divinity, for this is how Our Lady and the other great female saints went before Our Lord in adoration. Therefore to wear a chapel veil in Church is not sign of subordination but rather is the exaltation of the feminine, for she ( the Blessed Mother) who is exalted as higher than the Cherubim and more glorious beyond compare than the seraphim, goes veiled.
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