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Dec 14, 2023 · The year 1568 was a turning point, as John, adopting the name Juan de la Cruz (John of the Cross), and a few other friars commenced living according to the primitive Carmelite Rule in Duruelo, marking the birth of the Discalced Carmelites, known for their commitment to poverty and barefootedness.
3 days ago · St. John of the Cross died in the early hours of Dec. 14, 1591, nine years after St. Teresa of Avila's death in October 1582. Suspicion, mistreatment, ...
3 days ago · Saint John of the Cross was beatified by Pope Clement X in 1675 and canonized by Pope Benedict XIII in 1726. The Saint of the "purification of the soul" St John of the Cross had a difficult life, accepting persecutions and sufferings both in his activity as a reformer and in the period of his imprisonment.
May 21, 2018 · St. John of the Cross >The Spanish Carmelite St. John of the Cross (1542-1591) is the most >important mystical writer in the Catholic tradition. He also played a >leading role in the 16th-century reform of the Carmelites. Juan de Yepes, later St. John of the Cross, was born at Fontiveros.
Saint John of the Cross (2007). “The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross, Volume II: The Dark Night of the Soul, Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ, the LIV”, p.482, Cosimo, Inc.
John’s father had been disowned by his wealthy Spanish family when he married a poor weaver rather than a woman of equal economic status. Living in poverty proved to be too much for him, and he died shortly after John was born. John spent much of his youth in an orphanage, where he was clothed, fed, and given an elementary education.
A strange phenomenon, for which no satisfactory explanation has been given, has frequently been observed in connection with the relics of St. John of the Cross: Francis de Yepes, the brother of the saint, and after him many other persons have noticed the appearance in his relics of images of Christ on the Cross, the Blessed Virgin, St. Elias ...
