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Venerable Anna Katarina Emmerick (19th century)
Posted on September 6, 2012 by Christopher Pieretti
The Venerable Anna Katerina Emmerick was a German mystic who was favored with extensive revelations. Six weeks after her death, upon a rumor that her body had been stolen, she was disinterred and found to be incorrupt. She came to international fame when Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of Christ” was acknowledged to have been based upon her revelations.
“I saw also the relationship between the two popes… I saw how baleful (evil; harmful) would be the consequences of this false church. I saw it increase in size; heretics of every kind came into the city (of Rome) … Once more I saw the Church of Peter was undermined by a plan evolved by the secret sect (Masonry), while storms were damaging it.”
“I saw a secret sect relentlessly undermining the great Church… When the Church had been for the most part destroyed (by the secret sect), and when only the sanctuary and the altar were still standing, I saw the wreckers (of the secret sect) enter the Church with the Beast.”
“I saw an apparition of the Mother of God, and she said that the tribulation would be very great. She added that these people must pray fervently with outstretched arms… They must pray above all for the Church of Darkness to leave Rome.”
“The Church is in great danger… I see that in this place (Rome) the (Catholic) Church is being so cleverly undermined, that there will hardly remain a hundred or so priests who have not been deceived. They all work for destruction, even the clergy. The great devastation is now at hand.”
“When I saw the Church of St. Peter in ruins, and the manner in which so many of the clergy were themselves busy at this work of destruction – none of them wishing to do it openly in front of others – I was in such distress that I cried out to Jesus with all my might, imploring His mercy. Then, I saw before me the Heavenly Spouse… He said, among other things, that this translation of the Church from one place to another meant that She would seem to be in complete decline. But She would rise again; even if there remained but one Catholic, the Church would conquer again because She does not rest on human counsels and intelligence. It was also shown to me that there were almost no Christians left in the old acceptation of the word.”
“The Church is completely isolated and as if completely deserted. It seems that everyone is running away.”
“Among the strangest things that I saw, were long processions of bishops. Their thoughts and utterances were made known to me through images issuing from their mouths. Their faults towards religion were shown by external deformities. A few had only a body, with a dark cloud of fog instead of a head. Others had only a head, their bodies and hearts were like thick vapors. Some were lame; others were paralytics; others were asleep or staggering.”
“I saw what I believe to be nearly all the bishops of the world, but only a small number were perfectly sound…”
“Then I saw that everything that pertained to Protestantism was gradually gaining the upper hand, and the Catholic religion fell into complete decadence…”
“In those days, Faith will fall very low, and it will be preserved in some places only, in a few cottages and in a few families which God has protected from disasters and wars.”
“I saw that many pastors allowed themselves to be taken up with ideas that were dangerous to the Church. They were building a great, strange, and extravagant Church. Everyone was to be admitted in it in order to be united and have equal rights: Evangelicals, Catholics, sects of every description. Such was to be the new Church…”
“I heard that Lucifer (if I am not mistaken) will be freed again for awhile fifty or sixty years before the year 2,000 AD.”
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THE TRUE STATUS OF ANNA KATHARINA EMMERICK
A.K.A. ANNE CATHERINE EMMERICH
BISHOP'S OFFICE
48143 MÜNSTER
Horsteberg 11
Tel. 02 51/495 - 6037
Fax: 0251/495 - 6020
Your Excellency [1]
F. John Loughnan
Australia
Date: May 1, 2002
Your Excellency!
I thank you very much for your kind e-mail inquiry concerning Anna Katharina Emmerick, which had been addressed to me via the press office of our Diocese.
We are very pleased (to hear) that also in Australia the memory of Anna Katharina Emmerick is alive and remembered.
Of course it is not our desire to let Anna Katharina Emmerick be marginalized in ecclesial Spirituality which happens now and then also in Europe.
Unfortunately I cannot send you any further documentation through the Internet, should you wish such, you would have to communicate with me through regular mail.
a.. ad 1) concretely on your questions I can answer you that with the decree of 24 April 2001 the servant of God Anna Katharina Emmerick has been awarded the degree of heroic virtue (Decretum super virtutibus), with which she has been awarded by Church practice the title "Venerable".
The miracle procedure "processus super miro" is already closed on the level of the diocese and at present is in Rome with the Congregation for the declaration of blessed and saints for further investigation.
a.. ad 2) as appears from the above mentioned, Anna Katharina Emmerick has not been declared a saint. Thus she can not as yet be called saint, but, as mentioned, venerable.
b.. ad 3) no books are attributed to Anna Katharina Emmerick in the sense that she herself has hardly left any written proof. The substantial written documents left behind are written down by persons, who had settled in her vicinity, in particular the poet Clemens Brentano. These books have exclusively spiritual character and no official Church quality.
In the hope to have answered your inquiries I remain with best wishes and
Friendly greetings
yours
Msgr. Martin Hülskamp, Chaplain of the Cathedral
Bishop's Office