Is Julian of Norwich a saint?

[00jeanlouise00]

I just bought a book about Julian of Norwich. I asked before I purchased it if she was a saint. He looked it up and said it doesn’t say she ever was declared a saint in the Catholic Church (apparently she is one in the Anglican Church) but we do comemerate her on May 13.

I’m not thinking Mary’s going to want to share her important feast day with an Anglican saint but what do I know.

I’m not reading a book about a mystic who isn’t a saint. Why do you think we have a day on the calendar to comemerate her?

 

[Fr.Vincent_Serpa]

Hi,

Julian of Norwich has not been canonized by the Catholic Church, though many in the Church revere her. She may be considered a saint by Anglicans, but she is not an Anglican. The Anglican Communion does not have a mechanism for canonizing saints, any way. She lived before the refomation and was very much a Catholic.

Fr. Vincent Serpa, O.P.