The Life of Saint John of the Cross

From the villages of Old Castile to the austere cells of the reformed Carmel, The Life of Saint John of the Cross tells the story of one of the Church's greatest mystics and Doctors.

Drawn from the 1680 Speculum Carmelitanum, one of the earliest surviving accounts of the Carmelite reform, this rare biography preserves a voice close to the saint's own time. It follows John from a childhood filled with love for God and Our Lady through miracles, imprisonment, and poetic genius to heroic sanctity.