Paperback: Life Of The Blessed Virgin Mary (2009) is an incredibly revealing and edifying background of Our Lady, her parents and ancestors, St Joseph, plus other people who figured into the coming of Christ. Included are many descriptions about the Nativity and the early life of Our Lord, as well as the final days of the Blessed Mother - all from the visions of this great mystic.
Clemens Brentano was a well-known and well-to-do German poet and writer. After he had met the German nun and mystic, Anna Emmerich, on 24 September 1818, he was so amazed, he decided to be her stenographer. He later wrote, "I feel that I must stay here, that I must not leave this admirable creature before her death. I feel that my mission is here, and that God has heard the prayer I made when I begged him to give me something to do for His glory that would not be above my strength. I shall endeavour to gather and preserve the treasures of grace that I have here before my eyes." So, daily, for six years, this writer sublimated his career to take dictation. Why? Because he could see that this was God's work.
Beginning in 1818, Anna Katharina Emmerich dictated to Clemens Brentano over a period of 6 years various details about the life of Jesus Christ in chronological order. She had additional visions of "celebrated" events such as Christmas, Easter, and Saints Holidays when those feast days occurred in the Catholic Church. Anna's visions, as the reader will see, are quite detailed.
The primary additions to this new edition of Life Of The Blessed Virgin Mary are
1. Woodcut figures that were included in the German 1852 edition have been included.
2. Archaic word usage and all spelling has been revised to modern American English.
3. All place names and proper names have been updated to modern spelling norms.
4. Textual omissions of previous editions have been corrected.
5. German section titles, omitted by the English translator, have been translated and included.
6. Some new footnotes have been added.
About the author: Anne Catherine Emmerich was born to poor parents at Westphalia, Germany in 1774. When she was twenty-eight years old, she became an Augustinian nun at Dulmen, and apparently began to experience ecstasies as a result of spiritual favours. She received the Stigmata in 1813, confined to her bed, and reportedly convinced a vicar-general, Overberg, and three physicians of her sanctity. She later reported that she had seen visions of Christ and the souls in purgatory as a child, as well as a circular core with three sections representing the Trinity. She is the author of The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Life of Jesus Christ and Biblical Revelations, and The Bitter Passion and the Life of Mary.
Anne Emmerich died on 9 February 1824 and was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2004.
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