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Julian of Norwich (c. November 8, 1342 – c. 1413) is considered to be one of a greatest English mystics. Little is known of her life aside from either her writings. Possibly her title is uncertain, a title "Julian" from either the Church of St. Julian in Norwich, where she occupied a cell adjoining the church as an anchoress. At the age of 30, suffering from either the severe malady and believing she get on her deathbed, Julian experienced a series of incredible visions. These visions would twenty years late become a source of her major act, known as Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love (circa 1393). This is believed to exist as the 1st book written by a woman in the English language. Julian's theology was affirmative, speaking of God's love within terms of joy & compassion when opposed to law & duty (note a famed quote in the image below). For Julian, suffering was non the penalty that God inflicted, however was the means he utilized to draw united states nigher to himself. This was different from either a prevailing views of her period, which generally saw afflictions prefer a Plague as divine punishment. Because of her intimations that beyond the reality of hell-red region is eventually a greater mystery of God's love, such that "all manner of thing shall be well", she has likewise been known as the proto-universalist. She is commemorated per Anglican Church on May 8 and by the Roman Catholic Church on May 13. The modern statue of her has been added to the facade of the (Anglican) Norwich Cathedral.
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Juliana of Norwich Biographical article on this fourteenth-century English anchoress, mystic, author. By Edmund Gardner, in the Catholic Encyclopedia. Julian of Norwich: Her "Showing of Love" and Its Contexts Material on the life and writings of a fourteenth-century English mystic. Also includes information on her predecessors, contemporaries, and later mystics and commentators. Dame Julian of Norwich, Contemplative Profile of her life and teachings, with prayer in traditional and contemporary language. Julian of Norwich's "Christ as Mother" and Medieval Constructions of Gender Uses extracts from "A Revelation of Love" to suggest the fluidity of medieval gender construction. The Ecole Glossary: Julian of Norwich Brief biography, by Karen Rae Keck. Blessed Juliana of Norwich Short biography. |
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