Anne Catherine Emmerich
Beatified German Augustinian canoness and mystic (1774-1824) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Anne Catherine Emmerich (also Anna Katharina Emmerick; 8 September 1774 – 9 February 1824) was a Catholic Augustinian canoness of the Congregation of Windesheim. During her lifetime, she was a purported mystic, Marian visionary, ecstatic and stigmatist.[1]
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Born | 8 September 1774 Flamschen, Coesfeld, Prince-Bishopric of Münster, Holy Roman Empire |
Died | 9 February 1824(1824-02-09) (aged 49) Dülmen, Kingdom of Prussia, German Confederation |
Venerated in | Catholic Church |
Beatified | 3 October 2004, St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II |
Feast | 9 February |
Attributes | Bedridden with bandaged head and holding a crucifix |
She was born in Flamschen, a farming community at Coesfeld, in the Diocese of Münster, Westphalia, Germany, and died at age 49 in Dülmen, where she had been a nun and where she'd become bedridden. Emmerich purportedly experienced visions on the life and passion of Jesus Christ, as revealed to her by the Blessed Virgin Mary under religious ecstasy.[2]
During her bedridden years, a number of well-known figures were inspired to visit her.[1] The poet Clemens Brentano interviewed her at length and wrote two books based on his notes of her visions.[3] The authenticity of Brentano's writings has been questioned and critics have characterized the books as "conscious elaborations by a poet".[4][5]
Pope John Paul II beatified Emmerich on 3 October 2004.[1] However, the Vatican focused on her own personal piety rather than the religious writings associated to her by Clemens Brentano.