Painting of Paul of the Cross during his lasted Preached Mission in September 1769.

The room in the Monastery of Sts. John and Paul, Rome in which Paul of the Cross died on 18th October 1775.

The Shrine over his Tomb in the Basilica of Sts. John and Paul Rome.

"Above all, I urgently exhort you to observe that holy command that Jesus gave his disciples: This is how all will know. you are my disciples: your love for one another. This, my brethren, is what I wish, with all the love of my poor heart, to give you who are present here with me, to all the others who are now wearing this habit of penance and mourning in memory of the passion and death of our most loving Redeemer, and to all those who, by the mercy of God, shall be calle4 to this little flock of Jesus Christ in times to come. 

I also recommend to all, especially to superiors, continually to preserve and foster in the Congregation, the spirit of prayer, the spirit of solitude and the spirit of poverty. You can be confident that, if these values are maintained, the Congregation shall shine like the sun before God and men. 

With special urgency, I beg you to have a filial love for holy mother Church and a total submission to her visible head who is the Roman Pontiff. For this purpose, day and night the religious, shall remember. in their prayers holy mother Church and the Holy Father. They shall endeavour as much as possible, to contribute to the welfare of holy Church and to the salvation of the poor souls of their neighbours by missions, spiritual exercises and other works which are in harmony with our Institute; promoting in the hearts of all devotion to the passion of Jesus Christ and to the sorrows of Mary most holy.

 Finally, with my face in the dust and with tears in my heart, I ask pardon of all the members of the Congregation, present and absent, for all the faults I have committed in this office which, by God’s will, I have held for so many years. As I part from you to enter eternity, I leave nothing but my bad example, although I must confess that I never had wrong intentions in my heart, but only your sanctification and perfection. Again I ask your pardon, and I beg you to pray for my poor soul that our Lord may receive it into the bosom of his mercy. 

Here then, dear brethren, are the bequests which I leave you with all, my poor heart. I depart from you, and I shall be waiting for you in paradise. There I shall never cease to pray for the Holy Father, for holy mother Church whom I love so much, for the whole Congregation, for her benefactors and for all those for whom I know I should pray. I leave to all of you, present, absent, and future, my blessing.