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  Anne Catherine Emmerich
The vicar-general, the famous Overberg, and three physicians conducted the investigation with scrupulous care and became convinced of the sanctity of the "pious Beguine", as she was called, and the genuineness of the stigmata.
At the end of 1818 Emmerich claimed God granted her prayer to be relieved of the stigmata, and the wounds in her hands and feet closed, but the others remained, and on Good Friday all were wont to reopen.
Anne Catherine's Visions for the Church, as written down by Brentano, described the future of the Roman Catholic Church as seen by Emmerich by 1820.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/an/anne_catherine_emmerich.html   (2024 words)

  
 LIFE OF BLESSED ANNE CATHERINE EMMERICH
ANNE CATHERINE EMMERICH was born at Flamske, a village situated about a mile and a half from Coesfeld, in the bishopric of Munster, on the 8th of September 1774, and was baptised in the church of St. James at Coesfeld.
Anne Catherine had always been weak and delicate, and yet had been, from her earliest childhood, in the habit of practising many mortifications, of fasting and of passing the night in watching and prayer in the open air.
Anne Catherine showed her all the love she could by comfortng and praying for her, and closing her eyes with her own hands—those hands marked with the stigmas on the 13th of March of the same year.
www.jesus-passion.com /ANNE_CATHERINE_EMMERICH.htm   (13163 words)

  
  Anne Catherine Emmerich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich (8 September 1774 - 9 February 1824) was a Catholic Augustinian nun, alleged stigmatic, and ecstatic.
The vicar-general, the famous Overberg, and three physicians conducted the investigation with scrupulous care and became convinced of the sanctity of the "pious Beguine", as she was called, and the genuineness of the stigmata.
At the end of 1818 Emmerich claimed God granted her prayer to be relieved of the stigmata, and the wounds in her hands and feet closed, but the others remained, and on Good Friday all were wont to reopen.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anne_Catherine_Emmerich   (768 words)

  
 Anne Catherine Emmerich
Since childhood, Emmerich was said to have mysterious powers, including clairvoyance, the ability to heal others and frequent visions of divine luminaries, including the Virgin Mary and Jesus, to whom she referred (somewhat creepily) as "my Divine Spouse." Her Divine Spouse had an abusive streak.
Emmerich was haunted by visions of sinners being punished in the afterlife and was often afflicted with stigmata (spontaneously occurring wounds corresponding to the wounds of Christ on the cross).
Emmerich's accounts were rife with superstition and anti-Semitism, the former evidenced in a mild obsession with relics, such as Veronica's veil, the wood of the cross and the Holy Grail, which she said had been handed down from Abraham.
www.rotten.com /library/bio/religion/anne-catherine-emmerich   (1756 words)

  
 ANNE CATHERINE EMMERICH
ANNE CATHERINE EMMERICH was born on September 8th, 1774, at Flamske, near Koesfeld, Westphalia, in West Germany, and became a nun of the Augustinian Order on November 13th, 1803, in the Convent of Agnetenberg at Dülmen (also in Westphalia).
Though Anne Catherine Emmerich was an invalid confined to bed during her later years, her funeral was nevertheless attended by a greater concourse of mourners than any other remembered by the oldest inhabitants of Dulmen.
The period of the Emmerich revelations was one of the darkest hours in the history of Europe, the so-called Age of Enlightenment and the era of the Napoleonic wars.
www.mobilixnet.dk /~mob34875/jesus/scriptures/preface.htm   (3674 words)

  
 ANNE CATHERINE EMMERICH was born at Flamske
ANNE CATHERINE EMMERICH was born at Flamske, a village situated about a mile and a half from Coesfeld, in the bishopric of Munster, on the 8th of September 1774, and was baptised in the church of St.
Anne Catherine had always been weak and delicate, and yet had been, from her earliest childhood, in the habit of practicing many mortifications, of fasting and of passing the night in watching and prayer in the open air.
Anne Catherine showed her all the love she could by comforting and praying for her, and closing her eyes with her own hands—those hands marked with the stigmas on the 13th of March of the same year.
www.marysyellowstone.com /klaus/anneemmerich.htm   (13184 words)

  
 Anne Catherine Emmerich's Occult Visions: The Primary Inspiration for The Passion
Anne Catherine Emmerich was a Catholic nun and a mystic.
Anne Catherine Emmerich desired to become a nun when she was sixteen, but three convents in three different cities refused to receive her.
The other nuns in the convent did not like Anne Catherine: “Then, she was suspected of listening at the doors, for the private feelings of dislike entertained against her became known, no one knew how, and the nuns felt uncomfortable and uneasy, in spite of themselves, when in her company.” “Whenever the rule...
www.cryingvoice.com /Gibson_film3.html   (2458 words)

  
 Commentary: The Beatification of Anne Catherine Emmerich
Emmerich eventually manifested the stigmata or bleeding wounds resembling the wounds of the crucified Jesus.
The beatification of Anne Catherine Emmerich proceeded because the writings attributed to her were not included in the evaluative process.
Anne Catherine Emmerich is most widely known precisely because of the published (and now cinematic) visions attributed to her.
www.bc.edu /research/cjl/meta-elements/texts/cjrelations/topics/commentary_emmerich.htm   (1562 words)

  
 Venerable Anne Catherine Emmerich
Emmerich may be one of the most important mystics in the history of the Church.
Anne Catherine Emmerich, a nun who was privileged to behold innumerable events of biblical times, going back all the way to the creation of the world.
Anne Catherine Emmerich are the world's greatest source of detail on St. Mary Magdlen - great sinner, great penitent, and the second most prominent woman in the Gospels.
www.tconl.com /~cathcom/annecatherine.htm   (808 words)

  
 Bl. Ann Catherine Emmerich, Augustinian Canoness - Augustinian Saints
Ann Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824) was noted for her visions of Christ and other mystic gifts.
Ann Catherine was born in Flamschen bei Coesfeld, Westphalia, Germany in 1774.
From 1813 to the time of her death on November 9, 1824, Ann Catherine was bedridden.
www.midwestaugustinians.org /saints/s_annemmerich.html   (530 words)

  
 Life of Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich stigmatist, visionary, mystic - private revelations of Gospel events
We advance as a proof of the respect and affection in which the venerable Anne Catherine Emmerich is held by the faithful, the fact that, a short time after the appearance of the first volume of the present biography, it was translated into French and Italian with episcopal approbation.
Sister Emmerich’s interior life was to him a mystery of which she alone could furnish the key, with permission from her spiritual directors, Dean Overberg, and Father Limberg; yet he took note of all, as circumstances permitted, reserving what was obscure and unintelligible for a closer investigation at some future time.
Sister Emmerich was like to a tree by the side of running waters, upon whose boughs daily hung fresh fruits for the needy; she was like the nursing mother supplying nourishment to multitudes of spiritual children.
www.tanbooks.com /doct/anne_emmerich.htm   (16451 words)

  
 Anne Catherine Emmerick
She was clairvoyant, in feeling and sound, Anne was able to experience this gossip and under went it as if she was being hit by sharp arrow in her face.
Anne Catherine Emmerick said about her visions: “Never have I believed the visions other than those in the Catholic catechism; not visions, but only the teachings of our religion only lead my spiritual life.” You would be surprised at the detail visions.
A nun with a swollen windpipe and lung tuberculosis and asked Anne Catherine to intercede for her and was miraculously cured.
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 Mel Gibson's "Passion"
Gibson's film is strongly based on Emmerich's visionary book "Dolorous Passion", rather than on the Bible, so it probably has a quality or a "signature" different from the biblical fundamentalism one would expect from traditional organized religion, especially the Protestant Church which relies exclusively on what is written in the Bible.
Emmerich was a remarkable stigmatic and ecstatic Augustinian nun.
Anne Catherine Emmerich, according to the Catholic Encyclopedia, was born 8 September, 1774, at Flamsche, near Coesfeld, in the Diocese of Munster, Westphalia, Germany, and died at Dulmen, 9 February, 1824.
www.expreso.co.cr /centaurs/posts/bio/emmerich.html   (1715 words)

  
 The Passion of the Christ and Catherine Emmerich
Anne Catherine Emmerich was an Augustinian nun who was born 8 September 1774 at Flamsche, in the Diocese of M
Such questions, as in the case of Anne Catherine Emmerich, may never be adequately resolved.
Both factors argue for reading the writings of Anne Catherine Emmerich and Mary of Agreda as a means to inflame one's love for God and for neighbor, and not as an appendix to Sacred Scripture.
www.ewtn.com /expert/answers/Emmerich.htm   (1126 words)

  
 The Dolorous Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ: Life of Anne Catherine Emmerich
The nuns dispersed in all directions, but Anne Catherine remained, poor and ill. A kindhearted servant belonging to the monastery attended upon her out of charity, and an aged emigrant priest, who said Mass in the convent, remained also with her.
Anne Catherine showed her all the love she could by comforting and praying for her, and closing her eyes with her own hands--those hands marked with the stigmas on the 13th of March of the same year.
The negligences of the Church militant and of her servants were shown to Anne Catherine, under various symbols; she saw how many graces had not been coöperated with, or been rejected to a greater or less extent, and how many had been entirely thrown away.
www.sacred-texts.com /chr/pjc/pjc03.htm   (14102 words)

  
 The Beatification of Anne Katherine Emmerich
Catherine Emmerich came from a very poor family where, as it often happens when there is poverty, there was also a strong religiosity, which she assimilated to the point that very soon in her life she expressed the desire to enter the monastic life.
The pope praised Blessed Emmerich's identification with the suffering of Christ, noting that she bore the stigmata, the wounds of the crucifixion.
Sister Emmerich was practically illiterate, and her visions were transcribed and elaborated by a popular romantic poet, Clemens Brentano, who published them after Sister Emmerich's death at age 49 in 1824.
www.bc.edu /research/cjl/meta-elements/texts/cjrelations/topics/emmerich_beatification.htm   (1356 words)

  
 Venerable Anne Catherine Emmerich   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Emmerich may be one of the most important mystics in the history of the Church.
Anne Catherine Emmerich, a nun who was privileged to behold innumerable events of biblical times, going back all the way to the creation of the world.
Anne Catherine Emmerich are the world's greatest source of detail on St. Mary Magdlen - great sinner, great penitent, and the second most prominent woman in the Gospels.
www.sacramentals.com /sacramentals.org/annecatherine.htm   (781 words)

  
 Catholic Culture : Document Library : Some Further Perspectives on Anne Catherine Emmerich
Having read and studied Brentano's Emmerich writings in the original German as well as most of the 20th-century scientific literature on these, and also having translated some of the key ecclesiastical documents relating to Emmerich's current beatification case into English, several friends have asked me to relate the facts concerning her cause currently in progress.
To refer to "the pernicious notion that to be an unschooled, bedridden seer is the highest manifestation of sanctity," is in my opinion at least potentially offensive to the handicapped, as well as incautious when used in the context of one whom the Church in her judgment has declared a servant of God.
The bedridden Emmerich, like all those who find themselves imprisoned by their physical or spiritual pains, can be a beautiful example of the Suffering Christ, who was "bedridden" if you will, on the holy cross on Good Friday.
www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=3586   (2500 words)

  
 Sister Anne Emmerich and Mel Gibson's Passion--The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ Sheahen Emmerich Brentano ...
Gibson has said he was influenced by Sister Emmerich's visions as recorded in The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, which was transcribed by Emmerich's secretary, Clemens Brentano.
Anne Catherine Emmerich was an Augustian nun who lived in Germany from 1774 to 1824.
Emmerich also describes Bible characters with "fantastic clothing and hairstyles that owe more to late medieval German art than to the actual fashions of Antiquity," writes Miesel in an article for Catholic International.
www.beliefnet.com /story/139/story_13958_1.html   (739 words)

  
 Anne Catherine Emmerich -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich (8 September, 1774 - 9 February, 1824) was a (A member of a Catholic church) Catholic (A religious person who believes Jesus is the Christ and who is a member of a Christian denomination) Christian Augustinian (A woman religious) nun, alleged stigmatic, and ecstatic.
On October 3, 2004, (Click link for more info and facts about Pope John Paul II) Pope John Paul II officially (Click link for more info and facts about beatified) beatified her, giving her the title "Blessed".
Her visions go into details, often slight, which give them a vividness that strongly holds the reader's interest as one graphic scene follows another in rapid succession as if visible to the physical eye.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/an/anne_catherine_emmerich.htm   (800 words)

  
 Venerable Anne Catherine Emmerich: Sign for Our Time TCRNews2.com, Traditional Catholic Reflections & Reports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Emmerich was born in a poor farm village on September 8, 1774, at Flamsche in the Diocese of Munster, Westphalia, Germany, and died at Dulmen, in February, 1824.
And Catherine Anne Emmerich surely had her share of suffering as she took up her cross to follow the Crucified, always and only by grace, “through Him, with Him, and in Him," as we say in the liturgy.
And this alone explains the renewed light of the oblation of Anne Catherine Emmerich, which is working conversions to this very hour, and all the saints with her, and which makes her and them such a sign —such a reminder— for us in such seemingly dark times as this.
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 St. Anne, St. Ann, Santa Ana, Sant'Ana, Santana — July 26 - Plinio Correa de Oliveira commentary on the Saint of the ...
When in her fifth year, Anne was taken to the Temple, as Mary was later.
Anne did not have an extraordinary beauty, but was pretty of feature.
The people did not realize that St. Joachim and St. Anne were the ones who were blessed as being chosen to be in the line of the Messiah, even though St. Anne was sterile.
www.traditioninaction.org /SOD/j188sd_StAnne_7-26.shtml   (1293 words)

  
 Patron Saints Index: Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich
The convent was closed by government order in 1812, and Anne moved in with a poor widow.
She announced that she had seen him in a vision, and that he was to make a written record of the revelations that she received.
He made notes of the messages, translating from Anne's Westphalian dialect to common German, getting her to confirm his version.
www.catholic-forum.com /saints/saintafb.htm   (754 words)

  
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Emmerich's calendar system plotted Julian, Gregorian, Roman and Jewish calendars against astronomical data: I am sure that all the dates and moon phases she gives align perfectly, something really hard in our time and quite impossible in her time.
An Emmerich Organization, Web Site and Board of Directors could not only bring great devotion back to the Church but save many souls who are starting to doubt the faith because of secular influences and weak education of the faith.
My favorite passage in the life of Emmerich is when Brentano said to her that he found more faith and holiness in the Protestant faiths than in the Catholic Church, but she said nothing.
www.unitypublishing.com /Apparitions/EmmerichGreatMystic.htm   (4284 words)

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