Evelyn Underhill, Spiritual Writer
15 June -- Commemoration
If celebrated as a Lesser Festival,
Common of Spiritual Writers, page 473
Born in 1875, Evelyn Underhill was in her thirties before
she began to explore religion. At first, she wrote on the
mystics, most notably in her book Mysticism,
published in 1911. Her spiritual journey brought her in
1921 back to the Church of England, in which she had been
baptised and confirmed. From the mid-1920s, she became
highly-regarded as a retreat conductor and an influential
spiritual director. Of her many books,
Worship, published in 1936, embodied her
approach to what she saw as the mystery of faith. She died
on this day in 1941.