Julian of Norwich and Older Age

May 8 is the feast day of Julian of Norwich in the Anglican and the Lutheran church; in the Catholic church, it's May 13. Is Julian of Norwich as famous now as Hildegard of Bingen or Ireland's St. Brigid? Are any of these women more widely known now than they were in grad school when I first started searching for the females that had been left out of a variety of narratives? I have no idea. They are more widely known in the subcultures to which I belong, but in the wider world?In those early days (the late 80's) of discovering female voices that had been left out of literature anthologies, I most treasured Julian of Norwich for her writing. In later years, the theology of her writing fascinated me--so many centuries before any blooming of anything that could be called feminist, here was a woman writing about a feminine face of God.Now, as I head into the second half of my life, Julian of Norwich calls to me in a different way. For me, the last decade can be seen through a lens of…