"_Ecco chi crescerà li nostri amori_"[11] "Here is one who shall increase our love." Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. [1] This must have been a Friday--sacred Day of the Passion of Christ--for Easter Sunday of 1373 was on the 17th of April (O.S.). So when the Revelation finally closed and Julian was left to "keep it in the Faith"--the Common Christian Faith--it was Sunday morning, and the words and voices she would hear through her window opening into the Church would be from the early worship of "the Blessed Common" assembled there. [2] See the _Ancren Riwle_, Part viii. _Of Domestic Matters_, for counsels to anchoresses as to judicious care of the body: diet, washing, needful rest, avoidance of idleness and gloom, reading, sewing for Church and Poor, making and mending and washing of clothes by the anchoress or her servant. "Ye may be well content with your clothes, be they white, be they black; only see that they be plain, and warm, and well made--skins well tanned; and have as many as you need.... Let your shoes be thick and warm." [3] _cf._ Robert Browning, _Rabbi Ben Ezra_, xii. [4] S. de Cressy was probably the originator of the designation "Mother Juliana." The old name was _Julian_. The Virgin-Martyr of the Legend entitled "The Life of St Juliana" (Early English Text Society) is called in the Manuscripts, Iulane, Juliene, and Juliane and Julian. So also _Lady Julian Berners_ is a name in the history of Fifteenth Century books. [5] "So he kneeled at her window and anon the recluse opened it, and asked Sir Percival what he would. 'Madam,' said he, 'I am a knight of King Arthur's Court and my name is Sir Percival de Galis.' So when the recluse heard his name, she had passing great joy of him, for greatly she loved him before all other knights of the world; and so of right she ought to do, for she was his aunt."--Malory's _Morte d'Arthur_, xiv. i. [6] _Manuale ad usum insignis ecclesie Sarisburiensis_ (ed. of 1555), fo. lxix. _Servitium includendorum._ [7] "_pietatis_." [8] The sins that Julian mentions, "despair or doubtful dread," "sloth and losing of time," "unskilful [unpractical, unreasoning] heaviness and vain sorrow," seem to be all akin to that dreaded sin, besetting particularly the Contemplative life, _Accidia_. See _Ancren Riwle_ p. 287. "_Accidies salue is gestlich gledshipe._ The remedy for indolence is spiritual joy, and the consolation of joyful hope from reading and from holy meditation, or when spoken by the mouth of man. Often, dear sisters, ye ought to pray less, that ye may read more. Reading is good prayer. Reading teacheth how, and for what ye ought to pray. In reading, when the heart feels delight, devotion ariseth, and that is worth many prayers. Everything, however, may be overdone. Moderation is always best."--(Pub. by the Camden Society).