![]() She writes that on this sixth night, her senses began to fade. After four nights, she was given the last rites, with all those around her expecting her imminent death. ![]() Julian took ill at age thirty, and writes that she “was still young enough to be sad about dying” even though she had prayed for the infirmity. But she also saw severe illness as a means of transcendence, as seekers today might turn to a sweat lodge or hallucinogens to gaze into the next world without permanently crossing over. She “was familiar with suffering,” Starr writes. ![]() ![]() And yet, more than 600 years later, the woman called “Mother Julian” by her devotees is still an influential proselytizer of the Divine Feminine.Īs Mirabai Starr writes in her introduction to this book, Julian prayed in her youth to bear witness to the Passion of Christ and also “to endure an illness serious enough to carry her to the brink of death but not beyond.” Coming of age in the era of the Black Plague, the young Julian had seen a lot of death. There are no details about her life before age thirty, and she did not sign her writings. Julian’s Church in the medieval city of Norwich. ![]() She is called “Julian” because she lived in permanent seclusion as an anchoress in a cell attached to St. Little is truly known about the fourteenth-century Christian mystic Julian of Norwich-including her name. By Mirabai Starr reviewed by Peter OrvettiĬharlottesville, Va.: Hampton Roads, 2022. ![]()
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