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Precautions, Counsels to a Religious and Censure

St. John of the Cross

This book is in es-ES.

The short writings of St. John of the Cross: the Precautions against the world, the devil and the flesh, the Counsels (four warnings) to a religious for attaining perfection, and the Censure and opinion on the spirit of a nun. 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.