During the tumult of cross-country house moves, a good friend and I decided to study the Bible in a Year with Father Mike Schmitz. The following year, together we studied under his Catechism in a Year ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some of the most soaring religious poetry ever written was composed by a tiny 16th Century Spanish monk called Juan de la Cruz—John of the Cross. From his bald head to the soles of his sandals, John ...

Herrera, a professor emeritus of philosophy at Seton Hall University, examines the mystical writings of the 16th-century Spanish Saint John of the Cross. This is an academic study that draws upon (and ...