Editing Julian of Norwich (section)

== Legacy ==
The 20th- and 21st-century revival of interest in Julian has been associated with a renewed interest in [[Christian contemplation]] in the English-speaking world. [[The Julian Meetings]], an association of contemplative prayer groups, takes its name from her, but is unaffiliated to any faith doctrine, and is unconnected with Julian's theology, although her writings are sometimes used in meetings.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://thejulianmeetings.wildapricot.org/Julian-Meetings-History/ |title=History |website=The Julian Meetings |access-date=4 September 2019 |archive-date=4 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190904215736/https://thejulianmeetings.wildapricot.org/Julian-Meetings-History/ |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://thejulianmeetings.wildapricot.org/About-Meetings/ |title=About Meetings |website=The Julian Meetings |access-date=4 September 2019 |url-status=live |archive-date=4 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190904215409/https://thejulianmeetings.wildapricot.org/About-Meetings/}}</ref>

=== St Julian's Church ===
There were no hermits or anchorites in Norwich from 1312 until the emergence of Julian in the 1370s.{{sfn|Crampton|1994|p=11}} St Julian's Church, located off King Street in the south of Norwich city centre, holds regular [[Church service|services]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/2635/ |title=Norwich: St Julian |website=A Church Near You |publisher=[[Church of England]] |access-date=10 February 2019 |archive-date=12 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190212013207/https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/2635/ |url-status=live}}</ref> The building, which has a [[round-tower church|round tower]], is one of the 31 parish churches from a total of 58 that once existed in Norwich during the [[England in the Middle Ages|Middle Ages]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://norwichmedievalchurches.org/ |title=Welcome |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=The Medieval Churches of Norwich: City, Community & Architecture |access-date=4 September 2019 |archive-date=7 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190807155218/https://norwichmedievalchurches.org/ |url-status=live}}</ref> of which 36 had an anchorite cell.{{sfn|Upjohn|Groves|2018|p=12}}

[[File:Entrance to Mother Julian's cell.jpg|alt=Entrance to Mother Julian's cell|thumb|The entrance to the modern cell]]
The cell did not remain empty after Julian's death. In 1428 Julian(a) Lampett (or Lampit) moved in when [[Edith Wilton]] was the prioress responsible for the church,<ref>{{Cite ODNB |id=107180 |title=Wilton, Edith (d. 1430), prioress of Carrow |last=Marilyn |first=Oliva}}</ref> and remained in the cell until 1478 when [[Margaret Pygot]] was prioress.<ref>{{Cite ODNB |id=105620 |title=Pygot, Margaret (d. in or after 1474), prioress of Carrow |last=Marilyn |first=Oliva}}</ref> The cell continued to be used by anchorites until the [[Dissolution of the Monasteries]] in the 1530s, when it was demolished and the church stripped of its [[rood screen]] and statues. No [[Rector (ecclesiastical)|rector]] was appointed from then until 1581.{{sfn|Upjohn|Groves|2018|p=15}}

By 1845 St Julian's was in a poor state of repair and the east wall collapsed that year. After an appeal for funds, the church was [[Victorian restoration|restored]].{{sfn|Upjohn|Groves|2018|pp=17{{ndash}}18}}{{refn|1=According to the author Sheila Upjohn and the church historian Nicholas Groves, "The restoration of the church, when [the rector] was finally forced to take action after half a century of neglect, was ruthless to the point of vandalism."{{sfn|Upjohn|Groves|2018|p=18}}|group=note}} The church underwent further restoration during the first half of the 20th century,{{sfn|Upjohn|Groves|2018|p=27}} but was destroyed during the [[Norwich Blitz]] of June 1942 when the tower received a direct hit. After the war, the church was rebuilt. It now appears largely as it was before its destruction, although its tower is much reduced in height and a chapel has been built in place of the long-lost anchorite cell.{{sfn|Upjohn|Groves|2018|pp=28{{ndash}}30}}

=== Literature ===
The ''Catechism of the Catholic Church'' quotes from ''Revelations of Divine Love'' in its explanation of how God can draw a greater good, even from evil.{{refn|{{CCC|313|21 November 2021|long=on}}|}} The poet [[T. S. Eliot]] incorporated "All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well" three times into his poem "[[Little Gidding (poem)|Little Gidding]]", the fourth of his ''[[Four Quartets]]'' (1943), as well as Julian's "the ground of our beseeching".{{sfn|Newman|2011|p=427}} The poem renewed the English-speaking public's awareness of Julian's texts.{{sfn|Leech|Ward|1995|p=1}}{{refn|1=The medievalist [[Barbara Newman]] notes that Julian's saying within ''Little Gidding'' serves "as a refrain, much as it does in Julian's own ''Revelations of Love''", and that it was included at a late stage in the poem's development, after it had been worked on by Eliot for more than a year.{{sfn|Newman|2011|pp=427{{ndash}}428}}|group=note}}
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All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flames are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one.
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[[Sydney Carter]]'s song "All Shall Be Well" (sometimes called "The Bells of Norwich"), which uses words by Julian, was published in 1982.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.godsongs.net/2018/10/all-shall-be-well-loud-are-the-bells-of-norwich.html |title=All Shall Be Well – Carter |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=GodSongs.net |access-date=4 September 2019 |archive-date=4 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190904220956/http://www.godsongs.net/2018/10/all-shall-be-well-loud-are-the-bells-of-norwich.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Julian's writings have been translated into numerous languages.{{sfn|Rolf|2018|p=ix}}

[[Kathryn Davis (writer)|Kathryn Davis]]'s 2006 novel ''The Thin Place'' uses the life and theology of Julian of Norwich to reflect on the book's themes about life and death.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Davis |first=Kathryn |title=The Thin Place |publisher=Little, Brown & Co. |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-7394-7377-1 |pages=112-114, 228, 275}}</ref>

In 2023 Julian was the subject of the fictional autobiography ''I, Julian'' by Dr Claire Gilbert, Visiting Fellow at [[Jesus College, Cambridge]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/claire-gilbert/i-julian-the-fictional-autobiography-of-julian-of-norwich/9781399807524/ |title=I, Julian: The fictional autobiography of Julian of Norwich |date=2023 |publisher=hachette.co.uk |isbn=9781399807524 |access-date=8 May 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/articles/dr-claire-gilbert-her-book-i-julian |title=Dr Claire Gilbert on her book I, Julian |date=17 April 2023 |publisher=jesus.cam.ac.uk|access-date=8 May 2023}}</ref> Gilbert discussed her book on BBC Radio 4's ''[[Woman's Hour]]'' on 8 May 2023.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=8 May 2023|date=8 May 2023|publisher=bbc.co.uk|title=Julian of Norwich and the power of inspirational words in tough times|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001lqt4}}</ref>

Victoria MacKenzie's ''For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain'', also published in 2023, concerns both Julian and Margery Kempe.

=== Norfolk and Norwich ===
In 2013 the [[University of East Anglia]] honoured Julian by naming its new study centre the Julian Study Centre.<ref>{{cite press release |url=https://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm/media/press/2013/June/julian-study-centre |title=Lord Mayor raises a glass to new UEA building |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=14 June 2013 |publisher=[[University of East Anglia]] |access-date=3 February 2019 |archive-date=2 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141102183023/http://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm/media/press/2013/June/julian-study-centre |url-status=dead}}</ref> Norwich's first Julian Week was held in May 2013. The celebration included concerts, talks, and free events held throughout the city, with the stated aim of encouraging people "to learn about Julian and her artistic, historical and theological significance".<ref name="JWeek">{{cite news |last1=Grimmer |first1=Dan |title=Remarkable Norwich woman to be focus of week-long celebration |url=https://www.edp24.co.uk/lifestyle/heritage/remarkable-norwich-woman-to-be-focus-of-week-long-celebration-572848 |access-date=21 November 2021 |work=[[Eastern Daily Press]] |date=11 April 2013 |archive-date=21 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211121074317/https://www.edp24.co.uk/lifestyle/heritage/remarkable-norwich-woman-to-be-focus-of-week-long-celebration-572848 |url-status=live}}</ref>

The Lady Julian Bridge, crossing the [[River Wensum]] and linking King Street and the Riverside Walk close to [[Norwich railway station]], was named in honour of the anchoress. An example of a [[swing bridge]], built to allow larger vessels to approach a [[Canal basin|basin]] further upstream, it was designed by the [[Mott MacDonald]] Group and completed in 2009.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ice.org.uk/getattachment/c13a2822-e2d1-4883-a95c-3b0f1031210f/attachment.aspx |title=A Walk along the River Wensum in Norwich, looking at the City's Historic Bridges |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Institution of Civil Engineers]] |date=June 2019 |access-date=5 February 2019 |format=PDF |archive-date=7 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190207020110/https://www.ice.org.uk/getattachment/c13a2822-e2d1-4883-a95c-3b0f1031210f/attachment.aspx |url-status=live}}</ref> During 2023, the Friends of Julian of Norwich organized a series of events, centred around 8 May, the 650th anniversary of the occurrence of Julian's revelations.<ref name="Fri">{{cite web |title=Celebrating 650 Years of Julian of Norwich |url=https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0075/6206/8079/files/FOJ_650_BROCHURE_-_web3.pdf?v=1678898494 |publisher=Friends of Julian of Norwich |access-date=8 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230508085352/https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0075/6206/8079/files/FOJ_650_BROCHURE_-_web3.pdf?v=1678898494 |archive-date=8 May 2023}}</ref>