Raúl Gómez-Ruiz has written a learned and timely book. Mozarabs, Hispanics, and the Cross surely merits the coveted HTI Book Prize. More importantly, it should be read by all Latina/o theologians. In it they will discover a vast treasure that contains coins of rare vintage as well as some newly minted ones¬the history of the Iberian peninsula from the Celtiberians to twenty-first century Spaniards, the origins of the Hispano-Mozarabic rite and the history of its Good Friday Procession, an ethnographic study of the symbolic dimensions of the cross in the context of that particular ritual, and a comparison of the Mozarabic and contemporary Hispanic spiritualities of the cross.