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342 JULIANA OF NORWICH.
bury in I alone, without Christ, would certainly con-
tend. Juliana of Norwich inhabited the Anchorage
in the east part of St. Julian's Churchyard, Norwich,
called also Carrow, because it was given by King
Stephen to the so-called Benedictine Nuns of that
place, who educated the higher classes. Alban
Butler says that Juliana was a Benedictine, and
this she may have been in the first instance. The
Anchorage at St. Julian's was in all probability
supported tha nuns. In 1362 Henry, Duke of
Lancaster,
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granted in trust to the Abbot of Whalley
lands
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and cottages for the support of
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two recluses at
the church of Whalley, as also of two maid-servants.
They were to pray for the souls of the duke, his
ancestors and heirs. The Anchorage at St. Julian's
was tenanted up to 1534 at least. i
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Mother Juliana wrote her Revelations about 1370,
when she was herself thirty years old. They breathe
forth the Psalmist's latum mandatum Tuum nimis,
11 for the fulness of joy is to behold God in all ".-
Just as the cell of the ankret was attached to the
Church, so is the virginal life inseparably linked
with the
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Sacrifice and the adorable Sacrament of the
Altar. Centuries of lively faith in that central
dogma had peopled England with monasteries and
religious houses. At the beginning of the sixteenth
century they were in this proportion. Benedictines,
1 Preface to Revelations of Mother Juliana, p. 18.
2 Revelations of Divine Love, shewed to a Devout Anchoress, p.
111.