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Also Known As Juliana
Born 1342 • Norwich? • England
Died After 1416
Subjects Of Study mysticism
Walter Hilton
English mystic and author
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
Newman, John Henry
St. John Henry Newman
British theologian
St. Edmund
St. Edmund of Abingdon
archbishop of Canterbury
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
St. Bonaventure
Saint Bonaventure
Italian theologian
St. Teresa of Ávila
St. Teresa of Ávila
Spanish mystic
Lo Spagna: Saint Catherine of Siena
St. Catherine of Siena
Italian mystic
AE
AE
Irish poet
Sibyl of the Rhine
St. Hildegard
German mystic
Blessed Anna Katharina Emmerick
German nun
Heinrich Suso
German mystic
Bridget of Sweden, Saint
St. Bridget of Sweden
Swedish saint
Therese Neumann
Therese Neumann
German stigmatic
Saint Symeon the New Theologian
Byzantine monk
Saint John Climacus
Byzantine monk
Johann Arndt
German theologian
Saint Nicodemus the Hagiorite
Greek monk