Riverhead, $22.95 (150pp) ISBN 978-1-57322-205-1 Along with Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross remains one of the West's most well-known and beloved mystics.

Jacob van Oost the Younger, “The Vision of St. John of the Cross,” ca. 1675-1700 (photo: Public Domain) Jennifer Sokol Blogs December 16, 2023 ...

Left: Antoine Ranc, “St. John of the Cross in Ecstasy Before the Cross,” ca. 1705, Saint-Mattheiu Church, Montpellier, France.

John J. Miller is joined by Silvina Sironi of the Word on Fire Institute to discuss ‘Dark Night of the Soul’ by St. John of the Cross.

In the poetry of St John of the Cross mystical union with God is evoked not with scholastic or metaphysical speculation but rather with lines and stanzas of great and mysterious beauty. The experience ...

George Faithful February 29, 2024 A sculpture of St. John of the Cross in the National Gallery of Art in Washington. (CNS photo/Peter Lockley) (May 6, 2014) They had the best of intentions.

A new edition, published last week, Poems of St. John of the Cross (Pantheon, $2.75), includes the original Spanish, as well as an exceptionally successful English translation by South African ...