by Anne Catherine Emmerich

Anne Catherine Emmerich's writings are the best-known account of the Passion after the Gospels, and influenced Mel Gibson's blockbuster movie, The Passion of the Christ. Read the transcript of a series of visions by a great mystic and stigmatic who was recently beatified by the Church. Full of fascinating details concerning every aspect of the Passion, the Last Supper, the Descent into Hell, Our Lady and the Apostles. The people, places and cultural background surrounding these momentous events, are captured in detail, many of them verified by recent scholarship.