Although neither the real name nor much of the life of this figure is known, it is known that this person once envied Mary Magdalene for having witnessed Christ's sufferings and that this person once prayed for a sickness that would cause spiritual and mental pain.
Although neither the real name nor much of the life of this figure is known, it is known that this person once envied Mary Magdalene for having witnessed Christ's sufferings and that this person once prayed for a sickness that would cause spiritual and mental pain. In this writer's major work, an anecdote about a servant trying to serve his lord but falling into a dell is used to illustrate man's fall from God. That work by this writer also considers the three aspects of the Trinity as fatherhood, motherhood and the property of the lordship in one God. In the most famous passage in this writer's book, the sight of Jesus's bleeding head inspires a vision inwhich the creation of the World is compared to a hazelnut. This anchoress, who is named for the location in which we know she lived, wrote Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love and is sometimes called the first "woman of letters in the English language" for her "showings." For 10 points, name this 14th century mystic from Norwich.
Although neither the real name nor much of the life of this figure is known, it is known that this person once envied Mary Magdalene for having witnessed Christ's sufferings and that this person once prayed for a sickness that would cause spiritual and mental pain.
Julian of Norwich