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Saint John of the Cross (San Juan de la Cruz) (June 24, 1542 - December 14, 1591) was a major figure in the Catholic Reformation, a Spanish mystic, Carmelite friar and priest born at Fontiveros, a small village near Ávila. He is renowned for his cooperation with Saint Teresa of Ávila in the reformation of the Carmelite order, and for his writings; both his poetry and his studies on the growth of the soul (in the Christian sense of detachment from creatures and attachment to God) are considered the summit of mystical Spanish literature and one of the peaks of all Spanish literature. He is one of the thirty-three Doctors of the Church.
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