Julienne de Norwich
1342-après 1416 14th century Feast day: May 8
Trust against all evidence: believing, from the depth of night, that love will have the last word.
Who was Julienne de Norwich?
An anchoress of England, walled by her own choice into a cell built against St Julian's church in Norwich, whose name she took. At thirty, on the edge of death, she received sixteen revelations of the love of God; she pondered them for twenty years before writing her Revelations of Divine Love, the first book written in English by a woman. From her window she counselled passing visitors; from her night she drew a confidence nothing ever disproved.
In their own words
All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.
He said not: Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be afflicted; but He said: Thou shalt not be overcome.
Wouldst thou learn thy Lord's meaning in this thing? Learn it well: Love was His meaning. Who shewed it thee? Love. What shewed He thee? Love. Wherefore shewed it He? For Love.
Prayer oneth the soul to God.