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John of the Cross
Ioannes a Cruce la
Spanish mystic and Roman Catholic saint (1542–1591)
- Dated 24 June 1542 CE – 14 December 1591 CE
- Recognised as Canonized saint, 27 December 1726 CE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Affiliation
As a third party recorded it, often for one period of a life.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
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Belonged toCatholic Church
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Belonged toCarmelites
Roman Catholic religious order -
Belonged toOrder of the Brothers Discalced of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel
Roman catholic religious order
Family
The family of John of the Cross
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 2
Family 2
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- sibling of Francisco de Yepes devout and mystical Castilian, brother of St. John of the Cross (1530-1607)
- married to married to: recorded as none
Religious context
What the records tie them to
Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.
What this means
A founding is an attribution, usually contested, and not a claim that the tradition began fully formed. Patronage is an act, not a belief: it says nothing about the religion of a population, and nothing about the patron’s own practice in every period of a life. Domains are as sources record them — for a saint, usually a patronage — rarely exclusive, and not the same in every account.
History
Recorded events
What John of the Cross’s own record names in its history, in the order of the dates on the statements.
What this means
Events Wikidata records in a subject’s history, and the day a festival is kept. Not a complete history, and the day a festival falls on is not when it began. Each date is the one on the statement itself; an event with none is named after the line. It does not imply that these are all the events in its history, or that Wikidata ranks the events by importance.
- 25 January 1675 CE Beatification ↗
- 27 December 1726 CE Canonization ↗
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
9 statements on this record
- 9 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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