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Life of St. John of the Cross, Compiled, Tr. and Ed. by D. Lewis
Life of St John of the Cross Compiled Tr and Ed by D Lewis Author:David Lewis General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1897 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. St. John of the Cross persuaded by St. Teresa to become a friar of her reform -- Duruelo -- St. John of the Cross in Valladolid -- goes to Duruelo. Fra Juan of St. Mathias was five-and-twenty years old when, at the urgent request of fra Pedro de Orozco, he went to see St. Teresa in her monastery in Medina. St. Teresa herself was in her fifty-third year, and had been more than thirty-three years in religion. Fra Juan had been about four years in the order, to the reform of which he was now called by the voice of the saint. In the house of St. Joseph, in Medina del Campo, the two saints met for the first time, and then the nun told the friar what she intended to do, and the friar on his part told her that he had for some time wished to live among the Carthusians, believing himself called to a life of greater retirement and prayer. But as the conversation continued, and as the elder saint represented to the younger that he would do more for the glory of God if he would remain where he was, and labour to restore the primitive rule of his order than if he left it for another, fra Juan, humble and self-doubting, yielded to the persuasions of St. Teresa, and consented to do herbidding, provided the work should be entered upon without delay. He was the gift of God to St. Teresa who was now content; she had found the one man on whom she could depend; for though she had already accepted upon certain conditions the prior of Medina, fra Antonio de Heredia, she was not wholly satisfied with him, and did not, therefore, begin the reform of the friars at once. She waited a while; partly because of her ...« less