Medina del Campo is a pre-Roman city in Spain with an excellent geographical situation. It is situated in the South-Western area of the province of Valladolid.
Medina del Campo is significant for the Carmelites because on 15 August 1567, our Holy Mother St. Teresa of Avila founded the monastery of San José, the second home of the Reformed Carmelite Order. It was the second convent for Discalced Carmelite nuns.
It was in Medina del Campo that our Holy Father St. John of the Cross attended the College of the Society of Jesus. He was ordained in 1597, and said his first Mass in Medina del Campo. During that trip, he first met St. Teresa of Avila, and she encouraged him to promote her reform among the men's Order. In 1563 St. John took the Carmelite habit at St. Anne's, Medina del Campo, as Juan de la Cruz (John of the Cross).
The following year he entered the monastery. It was here in Medina del Campo that he was imprisoned for being faithful to the Order.
After his father died, St. John’s mother moved the family to Medina del Campo in search of employment. It was in Medina del Campo that St. John's mother placed him in a church orphanage school since she could not feed him.
It was in a hospital in Medina del Campo that St. John of the Cross worked for seven years while he was studying during this time at the university at Salamanca.
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