Julian of Norwich survived the bubonic plague and voluntarily locked herself inside a tiny windowless stone cell attached to a church for decades just to write a book about a hazelnut.

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Julian of Norwich survived the bubonic plague and voluntarily locked herself inside a tiny windowless stone cell attached to a church for decades just to write a book about a hazelnut. She claimed to have received sixteen mystical visions from God while severely ill and bleeding, ultimately concluding that the entire universe and all divine love could be perfectly represented by a tiny nut sitting in the palm of her hand. Her profound esoteric revelations made her one of the most important mystics in English history, though modern readers might gently suggest that being locked in a cold box for thirty years after surviving the Black Death might naturally lead to hyper-fixating on small woodland snacks