The Prisoner Who Wrote Poetry in the Dark
In 1577, Spanish friar John of the Cross was seized by his own religious brothers and dragged to a windowless cell in Toledo. For nine...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 42.
In 1577, Spanish friar John of the Cross was seized by his own religious brothers and dragged to a windowless cell in Toledo. For nine months he sat in a space barely large enough to stand, fed scraps of bread and sardines. His captors beat him weekly. They stripped him of his books, his companions, his ministry — everything that had once made God feel near.…
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