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Definitive life of Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824); a German Augustinian nun-mystic; stigmatist; visionary; prophet; victim soul. Prophecies and amazing revelations on every aspect of the Faith. Extremely edifying; makes the Gospels come alive with details you never knew before! 2 Volume Set. Impr. 2 vol set- 1,297 pgs;

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Christian theology

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Publié par	TAN Books
Date de parution	01 juillet 2014
Nombre de lectures	1
EAN13	9781618907486
Langue	English

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A PPROBATION
As the second volume of the work entitled “Life and Revelations of Anne Catherine Emmerich,” by Father Schmöger, C.SS.R., like the first, contains nothing contrary to the teachings of the Catholic Church, either in morals or dogma; but which, if read in the spirit of piety, may contribute much to the edification of the faithful, we willingly give it after a careful perusal the approbation solicited by the author.
PETER JOSEPH,
Bishop of Limbourg
Reprinted from the 1968 edition of Maria Regina Guild, Los Angeles, California, itself reprinted from the English edition of 1885. ISBN: Volume 1—978-0-89555-059-0 Volume 2—978-0-89555-060-6 The Set—978-0-89555-061-3
Printed and bound in the United States of America.
TAN Books An Imprint of Saint Benedict Press, LLC Charlotte, North Carolina 2012
D EDICATION
To the Immaculate Heart of the Virgin Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and Earth, Lady of the Most Holy Rosary, Help of Christians, and Refuge of the Human Race .
C ONTENTS
Author’s Preface
1. Spiritual Labors and Sufferings for the Church. The Nuptial House. Action in Vision
2. Various Forms of Active Prayer, or Labors in the Nuptial House
3. Journeys to the Nuptial House. Sufferings on Account of the Profanation of the Blessed Sacrament
4. The Souls in Purgatory. The Angels. The Heavenly Jerusalem
5. Prayer and Suffering for Pope Pius VII, for the Ecclesiastical Provinces of the Upper Rhine, For the Conversion of Sinners, and for the Dying. Tableaux of Feasts
6. Sister Emmerich’s Gift of Recognizing Relics and Blessed Objects
St. Agnes and St. Emerentiana
St. Paula
St. Agatha
St. Dorothea
St. Apollonia
St. Benedict and St. Scholastica
St. Eulalia
St. Walburga
Sts. Paschal and Cyprian
Sts. Perpetua and Felicity
St. Thomas Aquinas
Blessed Hermann Joseph
St. Isidore
Sts. Stephen, Lawrence and Hippolytus
St. Nicodemus
St. Susanna
St. Clare
Visions of the Life of St. Augustine, St. Francis de Sales, and St. Jane Frances de Chantal
Sts. Justina and Cyprian
St. Dionysius the Areopagite
A Relic of St. Luke
St. Ursula
St. Hubert
St. Nicostratus
St. Theoctista
St. Gertrude
St. Cecilia
St. Catherine
The Stigmatisées, Madeline of Hadamar, and Colomba Schanolt of Bamberg
A Relic of the Precious Blood and of Our Lady’s Hair
Effects of the Sacred Lance
A Particle of the True Cross
Relics of the Blessed Virgin’s Clothing
Other Relics of Mary
Spurious Relics of Mary’s Hair
Blessed Objects
St. Benedict’s Medal
A Glance at Paradise
7. Sister Emmerich’s Situation, 1820-24. The Life of Our Lord. Clement Brentano’s Notes. Father Limberg. Death of Abbé Lambert
8. Sister Emmerich Is Removed to a New Abode. Sufferings for Souls in Temptation, for the Agonizing, etc
9. Sister Emmerich’s Last Days and Death
A Collection of Classic Artwork
A Brief Life of Christ
Introductory
The Setting
Birth of Jesus
Childhood at Nazareth
John The Bapist
Jesus Begins His Ministry
Journey To Galilee
The Kingdom and the Apostles
Manifestations of Divine Power
Speaking in Parables
Increasing Popularity
Death of John the Baptist
Miracles of the Loaves
The Bread of Life
Peter the Rock
Training of the Twelve
Visit to Jerusalem
Clash with the Pharisees
Judean Ministry
The Supreme Declaration
Raising of Lazarus
Last Missionary Days
Banquet at Bethany
Palm Sunday
Second Cleansing of the Temple
Day of Questions
Judas the Betrayer
The Last Supper
Arrest and Trial
Death on Calvary
Risen and Living Still
A UTHOR ’ S P REFACE
W E 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 1 and Italian 2 with episcopal approbation. This circumstance, most gratifying to the author, has encouraged him in his efforts to present to the public a faithful history of the servant of God, although he believes himself authorized in saying that few books would be issued, were their publication attended by as numerous and grave difficulties as was that of the present work. Clement Brentano himself, whose journal offers the richest materials for it, shrank from the task of arranging them; the attempts of others came to naught, and the author was often tempted to draw back in discouragement from their labyrinthine maze. The firm conviction that he was rendering testimony to God’s wonderful ways in souls, the advice and encouragement of his friend, Rev. Father Capistran, of Kaltern, and the continued prayers of Maria von Moerl, 3 from 1858 until her blessed death, alone sustained him in his undertaking and enabled him to bring it to a happy conclusion.
Sister Emmerich had herself denominated the Pilgrim’s notes, “A pathless, overgrown garden.” In March, 1820, she related the following vision, remarkable on account of its fulfillment: “I was in a garden which the Pilgrim cultivated. A mass of vegetation was springing up thick and green; but the Pilgrim had planted it so close that there was no room for a path. He took me into a little summerhouse around which he had raised bitter cress.” 4 Later on she several times repeated: “I saw the Pilgrim’s garden. It is very luxuriant, but it is pathless, it is all overgrown. Still he must go on with his work.” Again: “I saw the Pilgrim’s garden so overgrown that only he could pick his way through it; others complained of not being able to enter it. It lay blooming and flourishing near a wilderness and at the entrance stood a rosebush covered with thorns. The Pilgrim and others would have wished to pluck the roses, but they pricked themselves with the thorns. I saw one trying to get them; but they scratched him till he cried out.” These pictures could not be more striking. The path which only the Pilgrim could find through his thickly overgrown garden, is symbolical of the seven days of the week during which he wrote down indiscriminately what he saw of Catherine Emmerich, what she related to him of her visions, together with his own impressions, his sympathy with or aversion for those who surrounded her or the visitors who flocked to her sickbed, and in fine, his own private affairs and those of his intimate friends. These miscellaneous materials formed the contents of his manuscripts, from which the author has selected what he deemed necessary for the present biography. The Pilgrim had no other idea at the time, than that of relating as faithfully and circumstantially as possible whatever he observed. 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. These the author has reproduced as faithfully as possible in their original form. Sister Emmerich was able to relate and the Pilgrim to write but few visions at one time; consequently, notes, additions, corrections succeeded one another in rapid succession regardless of order or time. The key to some vision was frequently found only after long and wearisome research, and then, perhaps, in some little word of the invalid preserved as if by chance, or in a careful comparison with proceeding or following ones. This was particularly the case with the grand vision which she termed the “Nuptial House” 5 and which seems to be the center to which all her labors tended.
The Pilgrim appears never to have clearly comprehended this vision; but, fortunately, he preserved so many of the Sister’s communications on the subject as to enable the author to penetrate more deeply into its signification. Then only did he seize the order and import of this privileged soul’s immense task of prayer for the Church as a body, as well as for her individual members; then only did he feel that he might attempt the history of her life.
The first volume has been drawn mostly from Dr. Wesener’s notes, as also the Pilgrim’s, of whatever they could glean from the invalid herself, from her confessor, her companions, her relatives, respecting her past life. The Pilgrim during his five years’ sojourn in Dülmen kept up a large correspondence with his dearest and most confidential friends. These unpublished letters were placed at the author’s service, and he has made use of them with the greatest discretion. He looks upon them as one of the greatest proofs of the blessed influence exercised by Sister Emmerich over her amanuensis. Only two of those that were honored by Sister Emmerich’s special affection and confidence are yet living (1870): Misses Apollonia Diepen-brock and Louise Hensel, both of whom kindly aided the author with their communications.
In 1831, the Pilgrim had revised the record of only the first months of his stay at Dülmen; of this, however, the author has not availed himself, as it does not faithfully accord with the original notes. To avoid copying, the Pilgrim corrected his journal after having recorded some visions; but he seems to have grown discontented with the task, and abandoned any further attempts of the kind. His interspersing the above with all sorts of notes and remarks, many of them quite irrelevant, contributed to the greater confusion of the whole. If, for instance, Sister Emmerich were prevented from communicating her visions, complaints filled his journal against her confessor or anyone else who had been, according to him, the cause of these intolerable interruptions. These complaints he repeated in his private letters and, as they were published after his death, the author feels that a word of explanation on the subject is necessary. They to whom his letters were addressed were fully aware of his irritable temperament and also of the circu