聖十字若望(西班牙語:San Juan de la Cruz,本名Juan de Yepes Alvarez[3],1542年6月24日—1591年12月14日[1])是反宗教改革的主要人物,西班牙神秘學家,加尔默罗会修士和神父,出生在馬德里北部阿维拉附近的小鎮丰蒂韦罗斯[4],一个改宗基督教的犹太人的家庭之中。[5][6]
聖十字若望是加尔默罗会的改革者,被认为与聖女大德蘭一同创立了赤足加尔默罗会。十字若望以写作著称,他的诗歌及其对灵魂成長的研究,被认为是西班牙神秘文学的巔峰,是西班牙文学的高峰之一。1726年,教宗本笃十三世封他为聖人。他被列为天主教眾位教會聖師之一。
- ^ 1.0 1.1 The day is unknown. The parish registers were destroyed by a fire in 1546, and the only serious evidence is an inscription on the font in the church, dated 1689. Midsummer Day is sometimes cited as the date of John's birth, but since this is also the Feast of St John the Baptist, this may simply be conjecture. See E Allison Peers, Spirit of Flame: A Study of St John of the Cross, (London: SCM Press, 1943), p. 11.
- ^ In 1952, the Spanish National Ministry for Education named him Patron Saint of Spanish poets. The same ministry repeatedly authorised and approved the inclusion of John's writings among the canon of Spanish writers.
- ^ Rodriguez, Jose Vincente, Biographical Narrative. God Speaks in the Night. The Life, Times, and Teaching of St. John of the Cross, Washington D.C.: ICS Publications, 1991, p. 3
- ^ Norman Roth, Conversos, Inquisition, and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain, Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1995, pp. 157, 369
- ^ Thompson, C.P., St. John of the Cross: Songs in the Night, London: SPCK, 2002, p. 27.
- ^ Roth, Norman. Conversos, Inquisition, and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain, Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1995, pp. 157, 369