Anne Catherine Emmerich
German Augustinian canoness, mystic, Marian visionary, ecstatic and stigmatist (1774-1824)
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GermanyA bedridden nun whose visions of Christ's Passion—dictated to a visiting poet—became bestselling books, though the church later called them his "artistic fantasy." Her beatification in 2004 honored the mystic, not the manuscripts.
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Anne Catherine Emmerich was born on 8 September 1774 in Flamschen, an impoverished farming community in Westphalia, Germany. She became an Augustinian canoness and claimed to experience religious ecstasy, stigmata, and visions of Jesus and the Virgin Mary. Bedridden for years in Dülmen, she attracted the poet Clemens Maria Brentano, who interviewed her at length and published volumes based on his notes of her revelations. Critics questioned whether the books reflected her words or Brentano's invention; the Vatican's Jose Saraiva Martins eventually dismissed them as the poet's fabrication. Pope…
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