After recounting the saddest part of The Greatest Story ever told, Bishop Robert McClory exuded joy. Blessing icons and greeting but a handful of the thousands of faithful who descended on the Shrine ...

St. John of the Cross is a great saint who lived up to his name by living out the heroic life “of the Cross.” Essentially, his life was a true reflection of Mark 8:34b: “Whoever wishes to come after ...

St. John of the Cross (Juan de Yepes y Álvarez) (1542-1591) was a Spanish poet and Catholic mystic and priest. A member of the Carmelite order and one of the 36 Doctors of the Church, he is commonly ...

This image of Saint John of the Cross, is without a doubt, the best known of all Dali's religious works. The work was inspired by a drawing by Saint John of the Cross who experienced this rapturous ...

Along with Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross remains one of the West's most well-known and beloved mystics. And like Teresa's, his writings are masterpieces of ecstatic poetry, depicting a lover—the ...

When the legendary St. Teresa of Ávila needed spiritual counsel during the Spanish Inquisition, she did not turn to St. John of the Cross or St. Peter of Alcántara, but to the lesser-known St. John of ...