Paperback: Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary (2009 Benediction Classics) 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 in chronological order. There are additional visions of celebrated events such as Christmas, Easter, and Saints Holidays when those feast days occurred in the Catholic Church.
Many other facts were made known, for example, regarding the Nativity and the early life of Our Lord, as well as the final days of the Blessed Mother. These visions occurred daily for six years beginning on 24 September 1818.
Anne Catherine Emmerich's stenographer, Clemens Brentano, believed it to be God's work. He was so amazed by "this admirable creature" (Anne Catherine Emmerich, 1774-1824) that he sublimated his career as a well-known and well-to-do German poet and writer to take dictation of the German nun and mystic's visions, what Brentano called "the treasures of grace that I have before my eyes".
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."
In 2003, actor and director Mel Gibson used Brentano's book The Dolorous Passion as a key source for his 2004 film The Passion of the Christ. Gibson stated that Scripture and "accepted visions" were the only sources he drew on, and a careful reading of Brentano's book shows the film's high level of dependence on it.
About the author: Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824) was a Roman Catholic Augustinian Canoness Regular of Windesheim, mystic, Marian visionary, ecstatic and stigmatist. Pope John Paul II beatified Emmerich on 3 October 2004.
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