Anna Posted July 31, 2003 Share Posted July 31, 2003 German Mystic Anna Katharina Emmerick to Be Raised to the Altar Developed a Fruitful Apostolate Writing About Her Experience of Christ's Passion VATICAN CITY, JULY 29, 2003 (Zenit.org).- The Church's recent recognition of a miracle has opened the doors to beatification for Anna Katharina Emmerick, a stigmatist and mystic whose written experience of Christ's life affects Christians today. The miracle, attributed to this Augustinian religious, occurred in Germany in 1880; it was officially recognized by the Holy See on July 7, 2003. Although disabled, she developed a fruitful apostolate by writing about her personal experiences of the life of Christ. On September 8, 1774, Anna Katharina Emmerick was born in a poor farm of the village of Flamske, in Coesfeld, the diocese of Munster, Westphalia, in Northeastern Germany, and was baptized the same day of her birth. Beginning at 4 years of age, she had frequent visions of the history of salvation. After many difficulties caused by the family's poverty and opposition to her choice of a religious life, she entered the convent at Agnetenberg, in Dulmen, at 28. After the civil authorities suppressed the convent, she moved to a private home. From 1813 onwards, sickness kept her immobile. "She bore the stigmata of the Lord's Passion and received extraordinary charisms that she used to console numerous visitors. From her bed, she carried out an important and fruitful apostolate," Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, said when reading the decree of recognition of a miracle before John Paul II. Beginning that year, she was nourished strictly by Holy Communion, and endured exhaustive investigations by the diocese, Bonaparte's police, and the authorities. During her final years, she lived daily the preaching and Passion of Jesus. She died on Monday, February 9, 1824, consumed by illness and penances. Declared Venerable at the end of the 19th century, her process of beatification was taken up again in 1972. The heroism of her virtues was declared in 2001. Anna Katharina Emmerick, expelled from her cloister by the Napoleonic invasion, and confined to bed, tried to write in her low German dialect the daily visions of the supernatural which she herself felt were indescribable. When learning this, a noted German writer, Clemens Brentano, made her acquaintance, was converted, and remained at the foot of the stigmatist's bed copying her accounts from 1818 to 1824. Twice a day, the writer went to visit Anna Katharina Emmerick to copy the notes in her journal. He then returned to read what he had written, to be sure he had faithfully transcribed what the invalid dictated. When the religious died, the writer ordered the material in the journal. He prepared an index of the visions and the edition entitled "The Bitter Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ." The book became a world event. "I did not see in her physiognomy or her person the least trace of tension or exaltation," Brentano said after making the nun's acquaintance. "Everything she says is brief, simple, consistent, and at the same time full of profundity, love, and life." The script of the film "The Passion," to be released in the United States at the beginning of next year, is inspired in the visions of this religious, just as the film's director, Mel Gibson, has revealed. ZE03072907 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmotherofpirl Posted July 31, 2003 Share Posted July 31, 2003 Are any of her writings online? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Posted July 31, 2003 Author Share Posted July 31, 2003 I'm searching around, but I did find this. Pax Christi. <>< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Posted July 31, 2003 Author Share Posted July 31, 2003 (edited) Here is a site that describes some of her unique gifts from God and her insights into the spiritual realm... At the bottom of the page is a link to read her book, The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Pax Christi. <>< Edited July 31, 2003 by Anna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Huether Posted July 31, 2003 Share Posted July 31, 2003 "She said what is most painful for me to repeat, that if only one priest offered the Unbloody Sacrifice as worthily and with the same sentiments as the Apostles, he could ward off all calamities from the Church." That is amesome! Imagine just how the Apostles must have said Mass! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littleflower+JMJ Posted July 31, 2003 Share Posted July 31, 2003 wow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mulls Posted July 31, 2003 Share Posted July 31, 2003 she was a mystic? what the heck is that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyperdulia again Posted July 31, 2003 Share Posted July 31, 2003 She saw visions and hheard the divine voice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Posted July 31, 2003 Author Share Posted July 31, 2003 In the case of this saint, a mystic is one whose religious tendency and soul's desire is evidenced by an intimate union with the Divinity. A mystic, simply stated, is one who has actual conversations with the Lord, and who has been given knowledge and understanding of spiritual things that we commonly do not possess. She was also a suffering soul. A suffering soul is one who experiences in her (or his) body the pains experienced at the same time by the Mystical Body of Christ, the Catholic Church. Pax Christi. <>< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mulls Posted July 31, 2003 Share Posted July 31, 2003 was Joseph Smith a mystic? he founded Mormonism by divine revelation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyperdulia again Posted July 31, 2003 Share Posted July 31, 2003 no joseph smith was a heretic who became an apostate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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