This volume from Penguin Classics includes both. The Revelations comes in two versions: short text and long. She afterwards recovered from her illness and, after meditating on the visions for some twenty or thirty years, finally wrote about them. Upon viewing the crucifix, Julian experienced a series of sixteen visions, or “showings”. She was gravely ill, and in preparation for her death a priest entered her room carrying a crucifix aloft. Revelations of Divine Love has its origin in a powerful mystical experience which Julian had on, when she was about 30 years old. In fact, it is worth noting that Julian herself is also anonymous: we call her “Julian” only because her cell was within the wall of the church of St. (The writings of Margery Kempe and of the anonymous author of The Cloud of Unknowing would be others. She was an English anchoress born in the mid-fourteenth century, and has come to be seen as one of the chief glories of the remarkable flourishing of English mysticism that distinguishes that time. Eliot - it is high time that I finally got around to sitting down with Julian herself. Given that this blog has, since its inception, held its motto (“All manner of thing shall be well”) from Julian of Norwich - by way of T.S.
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