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Author Topic: Ven. Anne Catherine Emmerich on The Church of Darkness  (Read 1649 times)

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Re: Ven. Anne Catherine Emmerich on The Church of Darkness
« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2017, 04:27:37 PM »

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It has never appealed to me to read Anne Catherine, though I have read a bit about her. That type of writing is not my "cup of tea"
I wrote this to Maria Regina in the women's section and this is probably the reason that she has bumping this thread.
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It is truly unfortunate that Anne Catherine Emmerich has been maligned by Wikipedia and that many Traditonalist Catholics are hesitant to read about her and to study her volumes.

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On reading the wiki page you mentioned I did not find A.C.E. being maligned, but I did see the writings of Brentano being questioned.
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But I am not opposed to what she says. In fact it makes sense. I just don't have a need to read it. 

Re: Ven. Anne Catherine Emmerich on The Church of Darkness
« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2017, 05:15:40 PM »
See below this Wiki biography and please read it very carefully, Nadir.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Catherine_Emmerich
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Wiki's journalistic style is very much like that found on CNN with lots of spurious speculation, gossip, and carefully laid derogatory remarks. Wiki is in full attack mode suggesting that her visions and prophecies were due to an herb known as morning glory. This is not surprising at all due to Anne Catherine Emmerich's visions which show how evil Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ really is. Thus, Wiki is out to destroy her reputation.
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On the contrary, notice how the Catholic Encyclopedia presents a much more favorable review of her life. Also notice that she has been honored with the title, "Venerable," and that her cause for beautification is being sponsored by the FSSP.  However, unless there is a change in the Papacy, her cause will not advance.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05406b.htm

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 childhood the supernatural was so ordinary to her that in her innocent ignorance she thought all other children enjoyed the same favours that she did, i.e. to converse familiarly with the Child Jesus, etc. She displayed a marvellous knowledge when the sick and poor came to the "bright little sister" seeking aid; she knew their diseases and prescribed remedies that did not fail. By nature she was quick and lively and easily moved to great sympathy by the sight of the sufferings of others. This feeling passed into her spiritual being with the result that she prayed and suffered much for the souls of Purgatory whom she often saw, and for the salvation of sinners whose miseries were known to her even when far away. Soon after she was confined to bed (1813) the stigmata came externally, even to the marks of the thorns. All this she unsuccessfully tried to conceal as she had concealed the crosses impressed upon her breast.  ...

Sister Emmerich lived during one of the saddest and least glorious periods of the Church's history, when revolution triumphed, impiety flourished, and several of the fairest provinces of its domain were overrun by infidels and cast into such ruinous condition that the Faith seemed about to be completely extinguished. Her mission in part seems to have been by her prayers and sufferings to aid in restoring Church discipline, especially in Westphalia, and at the same time to strengthen at least the little ones of the flock in their belief. Besides all this she saved many souls and recalled to the Christian world that the supernatural is around about it to a degree sometimes forgotten. A rumour that the body was stolen caused her grave to be opened six weeks after her death. The body was found fresh, without any sign of corruption. In 1892 the process of her beatification was introduced by the Bishop of Münster.