Some readers will note passages which by contemporary standards might be considered anti-Semitic, particularly in the way that the Jewish population is presented as having collective responsibility for the death of Jesus Christ. Emmerich was practically illiterate and this book was dictated by her, which makes the fact that the narrative is so internally coherent all the more compelling. This is not a novelization it is a recounting of Emmerich's ecstatic visions, which were accompanied by painful and mysterious physical torments. ![]() A riveting 'you are there' account of this pivotal event, the story is told with great attention to small details, many not mentioned in the Gospels. This once-obscure book recently achieved a much higher profile because it was used as an inspiration for the screenplay of Mel Gibson's controversial movie, The Passion of the Christ. This is an account of the events leading up to the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ by a 19th century German stigmatic and visionary, Anne Catherine Emmerich.
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