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Christian feast day: Richard Rolle, Walter Hilton and Margery Kempe (Episcopal Church (USA))
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Richard Rolle
English hermit and religious writer (c.1300–1349)
Richard Rolle was an English hermit, mystic, and religious writer. He is also known as Richard Rolle of Hampole or de Hampole, since at the end of his life he lived near a Cistercian nunnery in Hampole, now in South Yorkshire. In many ways, he can be considered the first English…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Walter Hilton
English Augustinian mystic, 1340/1345–1396
Walter Hilton, Can. Reg. was an English Augustinian mystic, whose works gained influence in 15th-century England and Wales. He is commemorated by the Church of England and by the Episcopal Church in the United States.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Margery Kempe
English mystic (c. 1373 – after 1438)
Margery Kempe was an English Catholic mystic, known for writing through dictation The Book of Margery Kempe, a work considered by some to be the first autobiography in the English language. Her book chronicles her domestic tribulations, her extensive pilgrimages to holy sites in…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Episcopal Church (United States)
Protestant Anglican denomination
The Episcopal Church (TEC), also known as the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (PECUSA), is a member of the worldwide Anglican Communion, based in the United States. It is a mainline Protestant denomination and is divided into nine provinces. The…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)