[AnAmericanMother]

Sorry that worries you. Private revelation is never required to be believed, you know. And if you're worried about people being kept up in the air, what about the Revelation to St. John?

And most of what Bl. Emmerich's writing provides is detail and drama - which is necessary in making a film.

Such incidents as the healing of Malchus and the baptism by blood of Longinus long predate Emmerich, they are part of the tradition from early times.

[RaceBannon]

But none of that had to do with Biblical truth, and that is more important than anything.