The Agonizing Journey of Jesus Christ: A Visionary Account by Anne Catherine Emmerich

NJ Ray: I’m not religious per se, but I am fascinated by the story of Christ from the Christian perspective. Mel Gibson’s film is epic IMO. This is an excellent companion.

United States on Aug 16, 2023

BigDrM: This book was taken from revelations that Anne Catherine Emmerich experienced during her life. She writes about visions she had of the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ.

United States on May 29, 2023

Frances Fischer: My favorite book. You will read details of Christs passion that will amaze you. I have reread this book many times. I use it as a meditation for the Sorrowful Mysteries of the rosary. This is the 14th copy of this book I have bought. I love to give it out to friends. They are awed when they read it. Jesus suffered so much for us.

United States on Jan 26, 2023

David Emmith: From Wikipedia about Saint Anne Catherine Emmerich, "Emmerich was beatified on 3 October 2004, by Pope John Paul II. However, the Vatican focused on her own personal piety rather than the religious writings associated to her by Clemens Brentano."

A note to the reader is included on page 61 which reads in part "... it can never be sufficiently impressed upon the reader that these writings have no pretensions whatever to add an iota to Sacred Scripture as interpreted by the Church."

Given the above statement on page 61, this book offers a very compelling view into the details of Jesus' passion. Many details, some aspects of which are not in scripture, provide remarkable insight into other moments in Jesus' life; for instance, during the preparations for the Last Supper, much coordination needed to take place and an account is given of a visit to the home of Seraphia. It reads, "They also went into Seraphia's house, where they had several arrangements to make. ... She was a woman of about the age of the Blessed Virgin, and had long been connected with the Holy Family; *** for when the Child Jesus remained three days in Jerusalem after the feast, [it was] she who...

United States on Dec 11, 2022

Magno C. Calayo: Ok

Canada on Nov 01, 2019

Fitz2: Research into the life of Jesus

United Kingdom on Jun 05, 2019

Carol Chrismas: This is a very good book and really provides a mental picture of what Christ went through for us.

Canada on Apr 08, 2019

God bless you and keep you in Jesus' name. Amen.: a must read if you want to know how Christ and Our Lady suffered. It opens up a love story for us to view, including the hearts and desires of the apostles, and Judas' heart at the time of betrayal (and the demons spurring him on). It shows the human suffering of Our Lord, and how satan had the audacity to accuse God of the crimes he incited in others!

United Kingdom on Oct 31, 2016

Sylvia F: This book was recommended to me by a friend following my trip to the Holy Land. I would suggest it would of particular interest to any Pilgrim who has visited or intends visiting the Holy Land who wants to read a very detailed, moving account of Jesus's Passion written from the perspective of an 18th/19th Century, German, Augustinian nun visionary - Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich (who lived from 1774-1824) - seeing it through her eyes.

United Kingdom on Feb 21, 2014

Alejandra Vernon: Keeping in mind that visions are seen by mystics in many ways, and that they are not always clear, in sequence, or well translated into words, this is a remarkable document of what this devout Agustinian nun saw for many of the 50 years of her life. Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824) stated repeatedly of her visions, which were recorded for this book during a seven week period in 1823 by her friend Clement Brentano, that there were details she could not remember, or "what I have not forgotten I cannot find words to express", and in another, "I saw nothing distinctly". I think this lends credibility to what she did say, in that she did not fabricate to "fill in the holes" of her visions. Another thing to remember is that it must have been as difficult to describe events 1800 years in the past, in ancient Judea, as it would have been to go 200 years into the future; how would she have explained a television or the Los Angeles freeway system ?
Sister Emmerich's visions give tremendous insight into the last hours of Jesus, especially the agony at Gethsemane. As Oswald Chambers would point out in his writings, that Gethsemane should be viewed "in light of His earlier wilderness...

United States on Apr 12, 2004