← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · Ed Toner
Thread ID: 12898 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2004-03-27
2004-03-27 16:58 | User Profile
Yesterday I was watching a show on TV, and when the commercial came on, I started surfing the cable channels, as I usually do.
I was on HIS, I believe, and there was a story of a woman named "Ann", or "Anne", somewhere in England, who experienced Stigmata on a Good Friday. The photo's of her wounds were very clear, they left blotches on a tissue when wiped, etc., i.e. they appeared authentic to me.
Before I could see the final details, a commercial came on, and I switched back to whatever show we were originally waching, and I never did get the full details.
Anne was active in a church. I have no more details to add. Did anyone else happen to see this, and get her full name?
2004-03-27 18:55 | User Profile
Ed,
I'm sure it was Anne Catherine Emmerich. She's been discussed a lot recently as Mel Gibson used some of her visions to depict the Passion. She isn't officially accepted by the Church, but may be some day. I don't know much else about her.
2004-03-27 19:14 | User Profile
Buster - That's the clue I needed. Many thanks. [url]http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05406b.htm[/url] Ven. Anne Catherine Emmerich An Augustinian nun, stigmatic, and ecstatic, born 8 September, 1774, at Flamsche, near Coesfeld, in the Diocese of Münster, Westphalia, Germany; died at Dulmen, 9 February, 1824.
Her parents, both peasants, were very poor and pious. At twelve she was bound out to a farmer, and later was a seamstress for several years. Very delicate all the time, she was sent to study music, but finding the organist's family very poor she gave them the little she had saved to enter a convent, and actually waited on them as a servant for several years. Moreover, she was at times so pressed for something to eat that her mother brought her bread at intervals, parts of which went to her master's family. In her twenty-eighth year (1802) she entered the Augustinian convent at Agnetenberg, Dulmen. Here she was content to be regarded as the lowest in the house. Her zeal, however, disturbed the tepid sisters, who were puzzled and annoyed at her strange powers and her weak health, and notwithstanding her ecstasies in church, cell, or at work, treated her with some antipathy. Despite her excessive frailty, she discharged her duties cheerfully and faithfully. When Jerome Bonaparte closed the convent in 1812 she was compelled to find refuge in a poor widow's house. In 1813 she became bedridden. She foresaw the downfall of Napoleon twelve years in advance, and counseled in a mysterious way the successor of St. Peter. Even in her ........................