Carmelitas en El Salvador acogen reliquias de "un místico y un profeta", Juan de la Cruz y Romero

In brief

Carmelite Missionaries of Saint Teresa in El Salvador recently hosted a relic of Saint John of the Cross at the chapel where Saint Oscar Romero was killed in 1980. Sister Tránsito de la Cruz Valdez Crespín described the visit as a meeting between a mystic and a prophet.

The relic consists of a small fragment of bone. Sister Tránsito de la Cruz Valdez Crespín noted the tiny size of the piece while expressing the spiritual significance of its presence at the site.