Who was Margery Kempe?
Margery Kempe (ca. 1373 - 1438): Yielding to the Spirit to challenge the nominal. This soft-hearted but indomitable illiterate British laywoman dictated the first autobiography in the English language. In it, she tells the story of how God caused her to become a public spectacleovercome with weeping almost every time the host was elevated in the performance of the Mass. In a time when Christian worship had become in many ways routinized and, from the perspective of the laity, distancedand a vibrant movement of lay devotion had been growing for a couple of centuriesMargery embodied a lay “spirituality of the heart” in a challenging, public way. Everywhere she went, she polarized the church. Some clergy and monastics denounced her, and some admired and supported her. Erratic though some of her behavior appears to have been, it seems clear that she inspired many laypeople to a more intimate devotion with Christ, against a nominalizing trend in the church establishment.
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