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St. John of the Cross is considered one of Spanish literature’s most important poets, and his works have been translated many times since his death. In the 20th century, poets John Frederick Nims and Willis Barnstone translated the poetry of St. John of the Cross into English.
Born in Spain in 1542, John learned the importance of self-sacrificing love from his parents. His father gave up wealth, status, and comfort when he married a weaver's daughter and was disowned by his noble family.
John of the Cross, a 16th-century Spanish Carmelite, was a mystic who towers above most. John captures his experience in poetry, hoping that we can resonate with him and so recognise God’s love active in our own lives. As a young Carmelite I was warned off reading John of the Cross.
A strange phenomenon, for which no satisfactory explanation has been given, has frequently been observed in connexion 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, St ...
Saint John of the Cross (June 24, 1542 – December 14, 1591), born Juan de Yepes Alvarez, was a major figure of the Counter-Reformation, a Spanish mystic, Carmelite friar and priest, born at Fontiveros, a small village near Ávila.
John of the Cross, Saint, founder (with St. Teresa) of the Discalced Carmelites, doctor of mystic theology, b. at Hontiveros, Old Castile, June 24, 1542; d. at Ubeda, Andalusia, December 14, 1591. John de Yepes, youngest child of Gonzalo de Yepes and Catharine Alvarez, poor silk weavers of Toledo, knew from his earliest years the hardships of life.
These words affirm the possibility of enriching the knowledge of faith through contemplation, which, for St. John of the Cross, is a secret or hidden knowledge, a wisdom "which is known through love and by which one not only knows but at the same time experiences."31 Although it is "a knowledge belonging to the intellect,"32 says St. John of the Cross, contemplation is ineffable and ...
