Julian of Norwich

noun

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

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

A prodigious reader—Trick Mirror references thinkers ranging from Erving Goffman and Donna Haraway to Anne Carson and Julian of Norwich—she was also a cheerleader in high school and a sorority sister at the University of Virginia, college years she enjoyed “easily and automatically,” only to learn later of the university’s long history of tolerating sexual violence.

From Slate

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