5/15/2023 0 Comments Julian revelations of divine love![]() ![]() She then had a sixteenth revelation on the following night that confirmed to her the authenticity of her experiences, which she was otherwise tempted to attribute to delirium. What happened next, as they say, is history.īeginning at four in the morning, and lasting well past the middle of the day, Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) had a series of fifteen visions, showings, or revelations as she gazed at the crucifix. ![]() He set a crucifix before the woman at the foot of her bed. By this time her eyes were fixed, her lower body was numb, she could not speak, and a priest had come to preside over her death. On the night of May 8, she asked to be propped up in her bed. In the first few days of May of 1373, an obscure woman who called herself "a simple, uneducated creature" lay on her death bed for "three days and three nights." She was "thirty and a half years old." On the fourth night she received the last rites of the Catholic Church "and did not expect to live until morning." ![]() ![]() Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love, translated with an Introduction and Notes by Barry Windeatt (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015), 214pp. ![]()
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