Julian of Norwich

British  

noun

1. ?1342–?1413, English mystic and anchoress: best known for the Revelations of Divine Love describing her visions

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Example Sentences

Still, I studied Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe in graduate school back in the 1970s; remember when A.L.

From Washington Post

They lead mini-guided meditations and quote solitary luminaries like Thomas Merton and Julian of Norwich, a medieval mystic who lived through the Black Death and civil unrest.

From New York Times

I recently read the writings of Julian of Norwich, whom before I had only read about.

From Los Angeles Times

There is also the shrine marking the place where Julian Of Norwich wrote her 14th-century blockbuster, The Revelations Of Divine Love, the source of the famous maxim: “All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.”

From The Guardian

The first woman who is known to have published a book in English was a religious ecstatic: Julian of Norwich, whose name possibly comes from St. Julian’s Church in Norwich, England, where, in the fourteenth century, she lived in devotional seclusion.

From The New Yorker