Julian of Norwich
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While deathly ill in 1373, a devout 30-year-old English mystic known as Julian of Norwich had a series of 16 visions of the divine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Still, I studied Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe in graduate school back in the 1970s; remember when A.L.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2023
Julian of Norwich - an English recluse - in her 14th-Century Revelations of Divine Love says: "Just as God is our Father, so God is also our Mother".
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2015
The mystic known as Julian of Norwich, starting in 1373, wrote her “Revelations of Divine Love,” often cited as the first English-language book a woman that was published.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2011
"Him verily seeing and fully feeling, Him spiritually hearing and Him delectably smelling and sweetly swallowing," as Julian of Norwich has it.
From Songs of Kabir by Rabindranath Tagore
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