We don’t know her name or what kind of education she received, yet she is the first woman known to write a book in the English language. Thomas Merton regarded her as the greatest of the English mystics. In May 1373, when she was 30 years old and near death from a grave malady, this woman known as Julian of Norwich experienced sixteen visions or “showings” of Christ’s passion and the nature of divine love and friendship. The foundation of Julian’s writing is her experience of revelations–God revealing GOD, the supreme nature of his friendship and the assurance that all will be well and every manner