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The Living Flame of Love (second redaction)

St. John of the Cross

This book is in Portuguese.

St. John of the Cross's commentary on his poem of the Living Flame of Love, written for Doña Ana de Peñalosa (1585–1586), on the transforming union of the soul in God; the second redaction, revised and enlarged by the saint. Spanish critical text of P. Silverio de Santa Teresa with his notes.

Contents

Source: Spanish critical text with Silverio's notes (manuscript variants, scripture references) kept as footnotes. OCR of the scan; page furniture removed; footnotes matched to their references page by page; OCR errors corrected by consulting P. Eulogio Pacho's modern text (Editorial Monte Carmelo, via Documenta Catholica Omnia), which was used only to find errors and never copied. Chapter summaries are taken from Silverio's own table of contents.