With a language that retains all its realism, appealing to science and experience, Juan de la Cruz realizes the man who has the experience of God, with rigor and vision, attentive to the Holy Spirit speaking in Scripture.

Juan de la Cruz (1542-1591), a saint of the Catholic Church and universal spiritual master, lives during the Spanish Golden Age, when the Middle Ages and the Renaissance departs takes shape with the triumph of Catholicism. Juan de la Cruz, poet and scholar, responds to the great need of the Christians of his time describing the stages of the mystical life of union with God: the night of the senses to the night of the spirit, to reach the transforming union in which the soul becomes like God.

John admires the ancient philosophers and returns to the sources of Christianity, while originality is expressed within the culture of his time. Declared a saint and doctor of mystical life of the Church, the famous Carmelite, confessor of St. Teresa of Avila, never ceases to draw, beyond the limits of the Church, poets, scholars and seekers of God, who recognize in him one of the greatest spiritual teachers of Christianity.

Dominique Poirot, prior of the convent of the Carmelites of Paris, is considered the best French specialist John of the Cross, which has devoted several works of vulgarization (including a biography). He has also directed the French edition of his complete works.