Yale professor Dr. Carlos Eire joins me to talk about Julian of Norwich, a 14th-century English hermit nun whose extreme dedication to God led to her having intense visions of Christ. Julian wrote extensively about those visions, providing us with unique perspectives on the Christ’s love for us, sin and redemption, and our place in God’s universe. The story and visions of Julian and her message of hope have regained popularity in modern times, where she is perhaps best known for the words she received from Christ in one of her visions: “All things shall be well, all manner of things shall be well…”
At the end of Walker Percy’s novel, The Thanatos Syndrome, the words “Well, Well, Well” appear. There are wells in the story and I thought that was the reference.. But I wasn’t sure. so I just put the three wells in google and what came up was Julian of Norwich and her quote from her visions.
Was Percy saying something in his novel about those real wells used by humans who tried to play G-d?