Arise and Come Away
The Story of St. John of the Cross
By: Meg Hunter-Kilmer
Juan de Yepes y Álvarez was a priest. He was also wildly, deeply in love. But there was no conflict of interest: John was in love with Jesus. Jesus wasn’t just his friend or his brother or his faraway God looking down from a distant heavenly throne. Jesus was his Bridegroom, the lover of his soul.
John—known throughout the world as St. John of the Cross—understood that God had proclaimed himself the bridegroom of Israel in the...
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