Julian of Norwich was a 14th century English anchorite and mystic. She lived in the time of the Great Plague, when there was terrible upheaval as tens of thousands fell sick and died. But she wrote, “All will be well, and very well, and all manner of things will be well.” These were deeply-considered words reassuring people that things must change for the better, because the world was made by a loving God. Even more important, she was allowed to have a cat in her cell, and she and the cat became very close. She became the patron saint of cats, bless her.
