Julian became well known throughout England as a spiritual authority.įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit. This is believed to be the first book written by a woman in the English language. These visions would twenty years later be the source of her major work, called Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love (circa 1393). He showed me something small, no bigger than a hazelnut, lying in the palm of my hand, as it seemed to. (They ended by the time she overcame her illness on May 13, 1373). Even her name is uncertain, the name “Julian” coming from the Church of St Julian in Norwich, where she occupied a cell adjoining the church as an anchoress.Īt the age of thirty, suffering from a severe illness and believing she was on her deathbed, Julian had a series of intense visions. Little is known of her life aside from her writings. 1416) is considered to be one of the greatest English mystics. Author: Anne Clift Boris Publisher: CBE International One of my spiritual mentors is a woman who lived six hundred years ago: Julian of Norwich. Julian of Norwich, also called Juliana, (born 1342, probably Norwich, Norfolk, Eng. Julian, the hazelnut (which appeared in one of her earliest showings) was an. Librivox recording of Revelations of Divine Love, by Julian of Norwich, translated by Grace Warrack. Julian saw that all of Creation was created, is loved and is preserved by God.
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