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Anne Catherine Emmerich was born in Germany in 1774. As a child she believed that angels, saints, and the Holy Family visited and talked with her as she worked in the fields. At twenty-four, she had her first mystic vision of the sufferings of Christ, accompanied by stigmata and bleeding as if from the crown of thorns. At twenty-nine, she became an Augustinian nun and continued to have visions and stigmata. In her visions, she recounted scenes from the life of Christ, which she seemed to have witnessed.

A masterpiece that combines the visions of four great Catholic mystics into one coherent story on the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Based primarily on the famous revelations of Venerable Anne Catherine Emmerich and Venerable Mary of Agreda, it also includes many episodes described in the writings of St. Bridget of Sweden and St. Elizabeth of Schonau.

Dive into the extraordinary visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich, a German Augustinian nun whose profound insights into Christs life and death illuminate the story of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This captivating book takes you from her sacred marriage to St. Joseph through the miraculous events surrounding the birth of Christ. (Introduction by Ann Boulais)

Clemens Brentano spent years visiting Sister Anne Catherine Emmerich at her Augustinian convent in Agnetenberg, Dulmen, Germany, from 1819 until her passing in 1824. The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ is the profound outcome of these extensive interviews, capturing Sister Emmerichs extraordinary visions of Christs life. This remarkable work intricately details her insights into the Last Supper, as well as the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of our Lord. - Summary by Ann Boulais

The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ is an account of the events leading up to the crucifixion of Christ, dictated by a 19th-century German stigmatic and visionary, Anne Catherine Emmerich. Emmerich was nearly illiterate, so she dictated the text to the poet Clemens Brentano. The narrative contains many small details that do not occur in the Gospel narratives, and the sublime poetics and lofty imagery in the book have led scholars to suspect that Brentano may have embellished Anne’s descriptions as he write them down.