'men of great learning and abundance of sanctity'. A number of his other works still exist, as do some of the manuscripts of his library, which were shipped back to Norwich from Rome in six barrels, and he composed the Office for the Visitation of Our Lady. He also laboured for the canonisation of Birgitta of Sweden in 1391 with a structured refutation of a Perugian 'Devil's Advocate', in a document in which he defended women's visionary writings. He may have been Julian of Norwich's spiritual director, editing her Long Text Showing of Love in the same way that Birgitta of Sweden's spiritual director, Alfonso of Jaen, edited her Revelationes. Alfonso became director to Catherine of Siena, whose confessor and executor was William Flete, the Cambridge-educated Augustinian Hermit of Lecceto, and to Chiara Gambacorta. Easton's Defense of St Birgitta echoes Alfonso of Jaen's Epistola Solitarii, and William Flete's Remedies against Temptations, all of which appear in Julian's text. He died at Rome on 15 September (or, according to other sources, 20 October) 1397. His tomb, constructed later, is in his Cardinalate Basilica of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere. Citations References Julia Bolton Holloway (2006), Anchoress and Cardinal: Julian of Norwich and Adam Easton, O.S.B. Andrew Lee (2006), The Most Ungrateful Englishman, The Life and Times of Adam Easton A. W. Pantin (1948), The English Church in the Fourteenth Century External links Website on Adam Easton Essay on Julian of Norwich and Adam Easton Attribution Year of birth missing 1397 deaths English Benedictines Deans of York 14th-century English cardinals Clergy from Norwich Alumni of Gloucester College, Oxford Benedictine cardinals