Museo de San Juan de la Cruz

Andalucía


This sizeable museum, part of the Convento de San Miguel, is devoted to the famous mystic and religious reformer St John of the Cross, who died here in 1591. The many memorabilia and relics include some of St John's bones and his rosary, kept in the upper choir of one of the monastery's churches, and a reconstructed monk's cell with a lifelike figure of St John writing at a table he used.


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