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SYMHC Classics: Julian of Norwich

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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The History of Lady Julian

In 1393, Lady Julian, the anchorist here was a strict recluse and had two servants to attend her in her old age. This woman was, in these days, esteemed as one of the greatest holiness. The history goes on to name four other anchorists who followed Julian at the Church with the first one starting in 1472. There's not documentation that she had ever been a nun. About 20 years after writing this first account of her visions, Julian wrote a much longer one,. about six times as long as that first document. She went into each vision in much more detail and into how she now understood them by about 1393.

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