Julian of Norwich was a fourteenth-century mystic who recorded the content of her sixteen visions of the Passion of Christ. Her writings vividly convey the love of God and his presence in suffering.Th
Saint Augustine of Hippo has inspired many people through his autobiographical work, The Confessions. These include the famous account of the conversion to Christianity of this man who went on to beco
Medieval France saw Constantinople as something of a quintessential ideal city. Aspects of Byzantine life were imitated in and assimilated to the West in a movement of political and cultural renewal,
Saint Francis of Assisi lived in early thirteenth-century Italy and is famous as the patron saint of animals and founder of the Franciscan Order. The Little Flowers of Saint Francis are a collection o
Teresa of Avila lived in sixteenth-century Spain and was tireless in her reform of the Carmelite Order. Her writings include her famous description of prayer as friendship with Christ and her image of
