![]() For example, her Venetian traveling companions, who had become annoyed by her mysticism, banish her from the hostel’s communal canteen, because during meals she constantly speaks of Christ’s miracle and weeps profusely when she prays.Ī similar hardship had happened on the previous stage, in Constance, Germany, where the pilgrims with whom she was traveling had even cut off her skirt and forced her to walk around dressed in just a jute sack. Now that she has embarked alone on a long holy journey that will take her to Rome, Assisi, Santiago de Compostela, the Holy Land, Holland and Norway, the persecutions continue. Her name was Margery Kempe, who was legally married and just turned forty, but her manifestations of faith had caused her to be accused of heresy in England, and receive the reproach of priests and bishops, and even a brief spell of imprisonment. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, being the mother of fourteen children, she could not claim virginal purity. Among the travelers, there was an English woman who claimed to speak with Jesus every day, and to have received a vision ordering her to dress in white like cloistered nuns. In the early 1400s, a group of pilgrims paused for thirteen weeks in Venice before embarking for Jerusalem. ![]() The experience of the English mystic in the fifteenth century ![]()
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