Context helps. Look here on page 178 at the bottom of the first paragraph: http://books.google.com/books?id=IPCwHOwX_BgC&pg=PA178&lpg=PA178&dq=julian+of+norwich+I+wanted+to+have+every+kind+of+pain,+bodily+and+spiritual,+which+I+should+have+if+I+died,+every+fear+and&source=bl&ots=Bavozcv6SD&sig=XdWj62cbrHPqFjCBjIq_w2P_cTs&hl=en&ei=ig1jTLz4O8L78AaprczWCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false
She definitely sounds like a solid believer to me...in a time when the culture, the understanding of creation, the length and difficulty of life, and the ability to be pious were so much different than the culture in which we live.
I’m a Methodist vlad, but I have a higher view of saints than do some of my brethren.
This thread is an invitation to meditation and not an invitation to conflict.
I wouldn’t mind this graduated Christian praying for me. After all, “we are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses...”