{"id":763,"date":"2019-12-14T14:59:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T03:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/?p=763"},"modified":"2020-06-24T15:20:13","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T05:20:13","slug":"st-john-of-the-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/saints\/f-j\/2019\/st-john-of-the-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"St John of the Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A doctor of the church, John is also one of its great mystics and poets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born Juan de Yepes de Alvarez in Spain, he was raised by his mother and entered a Carmelite monastery in 1563. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was ordained in 1567. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finding the Carmelites very lax, he joined with St. Teresa of Avila to reform the order. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1568, he entered the first reformed house for men, taking the name John of the Cross. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He encountered severe opposition, and was even imprisoned for nine months in a monastery cell, where he began writing poems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Dark Night of the Soul\u201d is his most famous work. Only after his death was John recognized as co-founder of the Discalced Carmelites. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is the patron saint of mystics and poets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Text: Catholic News Service, <br>Image: John of the Cross by Francisco de Zurbar\u00e1n, 1656\/Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<strong> Feast: 14 December <\/strong> A doctor of the church, John is also one of its great mystics and...","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765,"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions\/765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}