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The Spanish Mystics are major figures in the Catholic Reformation of 16th and 17th century Spain
Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
. The goal of this movement was to reform the Church structurally and to renew it spiritually. The Spanish Mystics attempted to express in words their experience of a mystical communion with Christ
Christ

Christ is the English language term for the Greek meaning "the anointing", which is a title given to the Reigning Messiah in the given age of the Zodiac....
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These writers had a strong influence on the development of the Spanish Language and were said to have ushered in the "Golden Age of Spanish literature
Spanish literature

This article refers to the literature of Spain. It includes Spanish poetry, prose and novels. For Spanish American literature specifically, see Latin American literature....
." At the beginning of the time period, the language was viewed as coarse; by the end, the language had achieved what is called "the high baroque
Baroque

In the the arts, the Baroque was a Western cultural Epoch , starting roughly at the beginning of the 17th century in Rome, Italy. It was exemplified by drama and grandeur in Baroque sculpture, Baroque painting, literature, Baroque dance, and Baroque music....
 style of Spanish," which in certain forms (especially in formal letter-writing) continues to influence Spanish usage to the present.

In addition to being examples of Christian holiness and major Spanish literary figures, the Spanish Mystics were also real reformers in the Church.






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The Spanish Mystics are major figures in the Catholic Reformation of 16th and 17th century Spain
Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
. The goal of this movement was to reform the Church structurally and to renew it spiritually. The Spanish Mystics attempted to express in words their experience of a mystical communion with Christ
Christ

Christ is the English language term for the Greek meaning "the anointing", which is a title given to the Reigning Messiah in the given age of the Zodiac....
.

These writers had a strong influence on the development of the Spanish Language and were said to have ushered in the "Golden Age of Spanish literature
Spanish literature

This article refers to the literature of Spain. It includes Spanish poetry, prose and novels. For Spanish American literature specifically, see Latin American literature....
." At the beginning of the time period, the language was viewed as coarse; by the end, the language had achieved what is called "the high baroque
Baroque

In the the arts, the Baroque was a Western cultural Epoch , starting roughly at the beginning of the 17th century in Rome, Italy. It was exemplified by drama and grandeur in Baroque sculpture, Baroque painting, literature, Baroque dance, and Baroque music....
 style of Spanish," which in certain forms (especially in formal letter-writing) continues to influence Spanish usage to the present.

In addition to being examples of Christian holiness and major Spanish literary figures, the Spanish Mystics were also real reformers in the Church. Their writings inspired a religious quest for God based on desire rather than obligation and medieval legalism, and three of them went on to found or reform religious orders that would carry on their work across continents and centuries.

Principal figures and their major writings:

  • St. Teresa of Avila
    Teresa of Ávila

    Saint Teresa of ?vila, also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, baptized as Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, was a prominent Spanish mystics, Carmelites nun, and writer of the Counter Reformation....


  • The Interior Castle
  • The Way of Perfection
  • St. John of the Cross
    John of the Cross

    Saint John of the Cross , born Juan de Yepes Alvarez, was a major figure of the Counter-Reformation, a Spanish mystics, and Carmelites friar and Priesthood , born at Fontiveros, a small village near ?vila....
     (poet)


  • The Dark Night of the Soul
    Dark Night of the Soul

    Dark Night of the Soul is a treatise written by Spanish poet and Roman Catholicism mysticism Saint John of the Cross. It has become an expression used to describe a phase in a person's Spirituality life, a metaphor for a certain loneliness and desolation....
  • Ascent of Mount Carmel
    Ascent of Mount Carmel

    The Ascent of Mount Carmel is the third major work of St. John of the Cross a Spain mysticism and major figure of the Catholic Reformation in 16th Century Spain....
  • St. Ignatius of Loyola
    Ignatius of Loyola

    Saint Ignatius of Loyola was the principal founder and first Superior General of the Society of Jesus.The compiler of the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola, Ignatius was described by Pope Benedict XVI as being above all a man of God, who gave the first place of his life to God, and a man of profound prayer....


  • The Spiritual Exercises
    Spiritual Exercises

    Spiritual exercises can refer to:* Any spiritual practice dedicated towards increasing one's personal spirituality* Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola, a book of spiritual practices of the Roman Catholic Jesuit order...
  • Autobiography
  • St. Francis de Borja
    Francis Borgia

    Saint Francis Borgia was a Spain Jesuit and third Superior General of the Society of Jesus. He was canonized on June 20, 1670....
  • Fray Luis Ponce de Leon
    Luis Ponce de León

    Fray Luis Ponce de Le?n was a Spain Lyric poetry poet and an friar, of the Spanish Golden Age....
     (poet)
  • Venerable Maria de Agreda
    Maria de Agreda

    Mar?a Fern?ndez Coronel y Arana, Abbess of ?greda or, known in religion as Sor Mar?a de Jes?s de ?greda , also known as the Lady in Blue and the Blue Nun, was born and died in ?greda, a town located in the Soria , Castile and Le?n, Spain....


  • Mystical City of God
  • Fernando de Herrera
    Fernando de Herrera

    Fernando de Herrera called "El Divino" was a 16th-century Spanish poetry and man of letters. He was born in Seville. Much of what is known about him comes from the book Libro de descripci?n de verdaderos retratos de illustres y memorables varones , which was written in 1599 by Francisco Pacheco....
     (poet)
  • Luis Gongora y Argote
    Luis de Góngora

    Luis de G?ngora y Argote was a Spanish Baroque literature lyric poet. G?ngora and his lifelong rival, Francisco de Quevedo, were the most prominent Spanish poets of their age....
     (poet)
  • Ramon Lull (philosopher)