09/14/2026
“While meditating one day in the mid-1570s, John had a vision of Christ on the Cross. The saint reproduced on paper a sketch of the image he saw in the vision: the figure that came to be known as “The Drawing of the Crucifixion.”
In that sketch, the Crucified Christ is hanging, as it were, in space, lifeless and contorted, turned leaning toward the world for which he died. Weighed down by the sins of the world, his head is bowed, his legs bent. Blood drips from his wounds. Christ wears a crown of thorns; the nails of the crucifixion are prominent.
The austere figure speaks to a narrative of sacrifice. In this sketch, St. John of the Cross depicts the Suffering Servant of God: “despised and forsaken of men; a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted; pierced through for our transgressions; crushed for our iniquities” (Is. 53: 3-5).”
Excerpt from an article written by Fr. Emmanuel Nnadozie, OCD
Read full article here:
https://littleflowerbasilica.org/blog/a-reflection-on-salvador-dalischrist-of-st-johnof-the-cross
