Anne CatherineEmmerich(1774–1824) lived in near-continuous vision of Scripture, culminating—after receiving the stigmata in 1812—in daily accounts of Jesus’s life dictated to poet Clemens Brentano. Newly accessible since the 2009 publication of Brentano’s 38 notebooks, this edition draws deeply on those sources to offer an unparalleled, vividly detailed narrative: places Jesus visited, teachings, miracles, companions, and a chronology (day-by-day across the ministry; near hour-by-hour for the Passion). It features 40+ maps tracing Jesus’s journeys, five appendices on the dating method, and all 350 of J. James Tissot's paintings inspired byEmmerich’s visions, with additional illustrations. Long credited with transforming readers, these visions helped lead toEmmerich’s beatification in 2004.
Available from Angelico Press in three formats:
Deluxe 3-vol. (8.5×11, ~1,600 pp.) — definitive reference with supplements, indexes, 42 maps, 350 Tissot plates, hundreds of illustrations.
New Light Series (12 vols.) — thematic expansions from the original notes: persons (≈250 entries), the Virgin Mary, saints’ lives, Creation, the Old Testament, inner life, spiritual works, and a 2-vol. biography.
Praise
“To call Angelico’s new, definitive edition of the visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich a stunning, moving, and beautiful epic is an exercise in understatement. This multi-volume edition details not only the fascinating story of the stigmatist and visionary of the turn of the 19th century, but the even more enthralling stories of just what those visions contained, depicted both in words and in gorgeous painted images, supplemented and made complete by maps, chronologies, genealogies, and everything readers need to immerse themselves in the totally gripping world of the life of Jesus Christ as God revealed it to her. Can you imagine what it would be like to get an insider’s bird’s-eye view of Jesus’s three-year social mission throughout the Holy Land — day by day and step by step? It is here in these volumes, along with so much more that will open up readers even more to the beauty and profundity of the Gospels and of other Scriptures. Thank you, Angelico Press.”
— KEVIN VOST
author of One-Minute Aquinas and Memorize the Faith!
“An extraordinary, captivating look at how a major mystic ‘saw’ the life of Jesus, with monumental artwork that brings us to Palestine two thousand years ago, unfolding for our inspiration and discernment the greatest event in the history of humankind since Creation.”
— MICHAEL H. BROWN
Spirit Daily
“These volumes, so beautifully bound, so carefully annotated, so majestically illustrated with Tissot’s original paintings and drawings (and so well-mapped!), will help tune the hearts of our skeptical age toward the mysterious, which is to say the Divine.”
— CHRISTOPHER CHECK
president of Catholic Answers
“Angelico Press has established a landmark in publishing this definitive, revised, and supplemented new edition of the visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich.”
— CHRISTOPHER A. FERRARA
author of The Secret Still Hidden
“This magnificent and compelling treatise, centered upon the earthly life of Jesus as perceived mystically by the stigmatized Seeress of Dülmen, captivates and enlightens. Its publication at this critical moment in church history could well be providential.”
— WOLFGANG SMITH
author of Christian Gnosis
About the Author
Anne Catherine Emmerich (Sept. 8, 1774–Feb. 9, 1824) lived from early childhood in almost constant inner vision of scenes of the Old and New Testaments. Her early visions were mostly of pre-Christian events, but by the time she had become (at 29) an Augustinian nun, they were concerned primarily with the life of Jesus. In November, 1812, Anne Catherine was permanently confined to bed, shortly thereafter received the stigmata, and was for the rest of her life sustained almost exclusively by water and the Eucharist. Many came to visit her, among them the poet Clemens Brentano, who was so impressed by her radiance that he moved nearby to record her visions. On July 29, 1820, Anne Catherine began to communicate to Brentano scenes of the day-to-day life of Jesus, which in due course encompassed the better part of his ministry. She was able to describe in extraordinary detail the places Jesus visited, his miracles and healings, his teaching activity in the synagogues and elsewhere, and the people around him. Anne Catherine and Brentano worked together daily until her death on February 9, 1824, except for one period of six months.
