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The Dark Night of the Soul (Spanish: La noche oscura del alma) is a phase of passive purification in the mystical development of the individual's spirit, according to the 16th-century Spanish mystic and Catholic poet St. John of the Cross. John describes the concept in his treatise Dark Night (Noche Oscura), a
St. John of the Cross OCD (Spanish: Juan de la Cruz; Latin: Ioannes a Cruce; né Juan de Yepes y Álvarez; 24 June 1542 – 14 December 1591) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest, Christian mystic, and Carmelite friar of Converso ancestry. [2] He is a major figure of the Counter-Reformation in Spain, and he is one of the 37 Doctors of the Church.
El Quijote en clave de mujer/es, various authors, editing, Madrid, Editorial Complutense, 2005; El Juan Ramón de Aurora de Albornoz, Madrid, Devenir, 2008, editing and prologue; Baeza de Machado, Sevilla, Fundación José Manuel Lara, 2008; La poesía de la Noche Oscura de San Juan de la Cruz, Centro de Estudios Linarenses, 2011
The Dark Night (Spanish: La noche oscura) is a 1989 Spanish-French drama film directed by Carlos Saura. It stars Juan Diego as John of the Cross in solitary confinement in a Carmelite monastery in Toledo in 1577. Saura both wrote the screenplay and directed the film. Andrés Vicente Gómez is the producer.
Ascent of Mount Carmel (Spanish: Subida del Monte Carmelo) is a 16th-century spiritual treatise by Spanish Catholic mystic and poet Saint John of the Cross.The book is a systematic treatment of the ascetical life in pursuit of mystical union with Christ, giving advice and reporting on his own experience.
Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana, better known as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz [a] OSH (12 November 1651 – 17 April 1695), [1] was a New Spain (considered Mexican by many authors) [2] writer, philosopher, composer and poet of the Baroque period, as well as a Hieronymite nun, nicknamed "The Tenth Muse" and "The Phoenix of America" by her contemporary critics. [1]
The Spiritual Canticle (Spanish: Cántico Espiritual) is one of the poetic works of the Spanish mystical poet Saint John of the Cross.. Saint John of the Cross, a Carmelite friar and priest during the Counter-Reformation, was arrested and jailed by the Calced Carmelites in 1577 at the Carmelite Monastery of Toledo because of his close association with Saint Teresa of Ávila in the Discalced ...
La noche oscura is a poetry book by Alejandro Carrión first published by the Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana at the urging of the poet Jorge Carrera Andrade, then vice-president. This book includes a complete version of the poem Tiniebla [ 1 ] first published by the National University of Colombia thanks to the poet and novelist Jaime Ibáñez .