About the Book
Anne Catherine Emmerich (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 by Emmerich’s visions, with additional illustrations. Long credited with transforming readers, these visions helped lead to Emmerich’s beatification in 2004.
Available from Angelico Press in three formats:
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Deluxe 3-vol. (8.5×11, ~1,600 pp.) — definitive reference with supplements, indexes, 42 maps, 350 Tissot plates, hundreds of illustrations.
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Handy 4-vol. (6×9, ~1,700 pp.) — complete vision text, day-by-day chronology, 43 maps, 149 illustrations.
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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.
“Angelico Press has established a landmark in publishing this definitive, revised, and supplemented new edition of the visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich. Beatified by John Paul II in 2004, the prophetess who foresaw a ‘Church of darkness’ and an unprecedented crisis in the papacy clearly speaks to our times. This multi-volume work will be the authoritative English-language reference for her testimony.”
— CHRISTOPHER A. FERRARA
author of The Secret Still Hidden
“Among the burdens of our age is an inability to tune our hearts to poetry. Yet it is poetry to which we turn, says the Angelic Doctor, when that which we contemplate does not find sufficient expression in rhetoric or prose. What things do not? Mysteries. Mysteries we engage with our hearts, and the language of the heart is poetry. How fitting that it is a poet, Clemens Brentano, by whose hand we come to know the mysteries of the heart of Anne Catherine Emmerich. And how fitting it is that Brentano’s devoted work has at last been so magnificently brought into print by the editors at Angelico Press. 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
“To call Angelico’s new, definitive edition of Anne Catherine Emmerich’s visions of the life of Jesus a stunning, moving, and beautiful epic is almost an exercise in understatement.”
— KEVIN VOST
author of 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
“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
