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Also Known As Juliana
Born 1342 • Norwich? • England
Died After 1416
Subjects Of Study mysticism

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Julian of Norwich
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Walter Hilton
English mystic and author
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Hugh Paulin Cressy
English author and editor
Rolle, detail from “Religious Poems,” early 15th century; in the British Library (Cotton Ms. Faustina B. VI)
Richard Rolle
British mystic
St. John Henry Newman
St. John Henry Newman
British theologian
St. Edmund
St. Edmund of Abingdon
archbishop of Canterbury
Robert Parsons
Robert Parsons
English Jesuit
Ronald Knox, pen and ink drawing by P. Evans, c. 1926; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Ronald Knox
British theologian
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
French abbot
The second founder of the Franciscans, St. Bonaventure
Saint Bonaventure
Italian theologian
Engraving of Saint Teresa of Avila in a Carmelite habit, gazing upward and holding a crucifix and a scroll.
St. Teresa of Ávila
Spanish mystic
Lo Spagna: Saint Catherine of Siena
St. Catherine of Siena
Italian mystic
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Irish poet
Sibyl of the Rhine
St. Hildegard
German mystic
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Blessed Anna Katharina Emmerick
German nun
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Heinrich Suso
German mystic
Bridget of Sweden, Saint
St. Bridget of Sweden
Swedish saint
Therese Neumann
Therese Neumann
German stigmatic
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Saint Symeon the New Theologian
Byzantine monk
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Saint John Climacus
Byzantine monk
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Johann Arndt
German theologian