The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ eBook

Anne Catherine Emmerich
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 439 pages of information about The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ eBook

Anne Catherine Emmerich
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 439 pages of information about The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

On the 9th February 1821 she fell into an ecstasy at the time of the funeral of a very holy priest.  Blood flowed from her forehead, and the cross on her breast bled also.  Someone asked her, ’What is the matter with you?’ She smiled, and spoke like one awakening from a dream:  ’We were by the side of the body.  I have been accustomed lately to hear sacred music, and the De Profundis made a great impression upon me.’  She died upon the same day three years later.  In 1821, a few weeks before Easter, she told us that it had been said to her during her prayer:  ’Take notice, you will suffer on the real anniversary of the Passion, and not on the day marked this year in the Ecclesiastical Calendar.’  On Friday, the 30th of March, at ten o’clock in the morning, she sank down senseless.  Her face and bosom were bathed in blood, and her body appeared covered with bruises like what the blows of a whip would have inflicted.  At twelve o’clock in the day, she stretched herself out in the form of a cross, and her arms were so extended as to be perfectly dislocated.  A few minutes before two o’clock, drops of blood flowed from her feet and hands.  On Good Friday, the 20th of April, she was simply in a state of quiet contemplation.  This remarkable exception to the general rule seemed to be an effect of the providence of God, for, at the hour when her wounds usually bled, a number of curious and ill-natured individuals came to see her with the intention of causing her fresh annoyances, by publishing what they saw; but they thus were made unintentionally to contribute to her peace, by saying that her wounds had ceased to bleed.

On the 19th of February 1822 she was again warned that she would suffer on the last Friday of March, and not on Good Friday.

On Friday the 15th, and again on Friday the 29th, the cross on her bosom and the wound of her side bled.  Before the 29th, she more than once felt as though a stream of fire were flowing rapidly from her heart to her side, and down her arms and legs to the stigmas, which looked red and inflamed.  On the evening of Thursday the 28th, she fell into a state of contemplation on the Passion, and remained in it until Friday evening.  Her chest, head, and side bled; all the veins of her hands were swollen, and there was a painful spot in the centre of them, which felt damp, although blood did not flow from it.  No blood flowed from the stigmas excepting upon the 3rd of March, the day of the finding of the holy Cross.  She had also a vision of the discovery of the true cross by St. Helena, and imagined herself to be lying in the excavation near the cross.  Much blood came in the morning from her head and side, and in the afternoon from her hands and feet, and it seemed to her as though she were being made the test of whether the cross was really the Cross of Jesus Christ, and that her blood was testifying to its identity.

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