Julian of Norwich, an anchorite who wrote in the fifteenth century, recorded visions of Jesus on which she would later meditate, many of which involved his blood, sweat, and tears. Her very first vision was of Jesus’s crown of thorns: Suddenly I saw the red blood trickling down from under the garland, hot and freshly, and right plentifully, as it was in the time of His passion when the garland of thorns was pressed on His blessed head.
