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Beatrice of Nazareth

  • And like the fish, swimming in the vast sea and resting in its deeps, and like the bird, boldly mounting high in the sky, so the soul feels its spirit freely moving through the vastness and the depth and the unutterable richnesses of love.

    • Beatrice of Nazareth,
    • in Roger de Ganck, Beatrice of Nazareth and the Thirteenth-Century Mulieres Religiosae of the Low Countries ()

Beatrice of Nazareth, Belgian/Flemish writer, mystic, Cistercian nun

(1200 - 1268)