See below this Wiki biography and please read it very carefully, Nadir.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Catherine_Emmerich.
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.htmAn
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.