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The following is the complete chapter entitled, A detached Account of the Descent into Hell, from The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ by Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich. This chapter presents Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich’s visions of the descent of Jesus Christ into Hell (The Limbo of the Fathers) on Holy Saturday. The events of Holy Saturday are also known as the Harrowing of Hell. Chapter 49 from The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ by Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich: CHAPTER LIX A detached Account of the Descent into Hell. When Jesus, after uttering a loud cry, expired,...

The Venerable Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824) was a German Augustinian nun of great sanctity. She endured a life of sufferings, bore the stigmata of our Lord and was a seer, who witnessed scenes from the life of Christ with the vividness of one who was there. Those revelations were one of the sources used in making the film The Passion of the Christ. She also foretold future occurrences in the Church. The following are from her visions pertaining to the emergence of a subversive Church of Darkness that would deceive many of the faithful into "complete decadence." May 13, 1820:...

In his new film "2012", director Roland Emmerich reinforces a double standard by depicting the destruction of numerous Christian landmarks while sparing Islamic ones. The Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican and The Sistine Chapel in the Vatican all meet untimely fates in Emmerich's latest end-of-the-world extravangza. However, The Kaaba, the cube-shaped structure that is the focus of prayers and the site of the most important pilgrimage in Islam, was spared. And this double standard was not, it turns out, an oversight or mistake. A deliberate act In an interview with Sci-Fi...

NASA scientists are sick of being asked if the world is going to end in 2012 – so much in fact, they've published an article on their website explaining just why it's a load of rubbish. The release of Roland Emmerich's blockbuster film 2012, in which John Cusack's character Jackson Curtis has to deal with the end of the world, has only made matters worse. There are several theories as to how the world is supposed to end, most of which focus on a particular date - December 21. The best-known is that relating to the Mayan 'long-count' calendar, which...

Roland Emmerich's new end-of-the-world disaster film 2012 has a rollicking good time destroying every monument to man's architectural genius in the world. The Sistine Chapel goes kablooie, as does the Vatican and the giant Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro. The White House gets flattened, too. All man's most well known landmarks get turned to dust by Emmerich's over-the-top movie effects team. But by the time the year 2012 rolls around, director Roland Emmerich is obviously saying that Islam has been wiped off the face of the Earth. There are no Saudi scenes of mayhem and destruction in...

8:38PM CT The first report from St. Louis is in - and presidential candidates Michael Badnarik (Libertarian) and David Cobb (Green Party) were just arrested. Badnarik was carrying an Order to Show Cause, which he intended to serve the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD). Earlier today, Libertarians attempted to serve these same papers at the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the CPD - but were stopped from approaching the CPD office by security guards.

Code: ZE04092005 Date: 2004-09-21 Beatification Nears for Charles I and Anna Emmerick Oct. 3 Event Scheduled VATICAN CITY, SEPT. 20, 2004 (Zenit.org).- John Paul II will soon beatify five people, including Emperor Charles I of Austria and German mystic Anna Katharina Emmerick, whose writings influenced Mel Gibson in the production of "The Passion of the Christ." The Holy See today published the list of the Servants of God to be beatified Oct. 3, when it announced the Pope's upcoming key liturgical celebrations. Charles I of Habsburg (1887-1922) was proclaimed emperor of Austria in 1916. In March 1919 he was...

PARIS (Reuters) - The 19th century German nun whose blood-soaked visions of Jesus's death inspired Mel Gibson's film "The Passion of The Christ" will soon be put on the path to sainthood, Catholic Church officials have said. Anne Catherine Emmerich, a sickly mystic who lived from 1774 to 1824, has already reached near cult status among traditionalist Roman Catholics for her book that gave Gibson the grisly details the Gospels did not provide. The Vatican says Pope John Paul II will beatify Emmerich for her virtuous life, not her best-selling book, but the Oct. 3 ceremony will further publicize her...

I caught the tail end of this. Trying to find a transcript of the whole thing? Anyone know where? Buzz Aldrin didnt look to happy with Emmerich. He said kids arent learning about "magnificent desolation" anymore the words he used to describe the moon during Apollo 11. They are learning "monumental deception". He talked about how teachers tell him they have a hard time competing with glitzy "conspiracy documentarys" saying we didn't go to the moon. "Former Astronaut Buzz Aldrin cautions people from propaganda in mainstream media, saying that these can sometimes be a disservice. He mentions, as an example,...

Do You Weep and Offer Your Suffering for Liberals / Dissidents or Mock Them? The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ Excerpt from Life of Anne Catherine Emmerich, p. 48: "The signification of my sufferings in all my limbs was explained to me in the following vision: I saw a gigantic human body in a horrible state of mutilation, and raised upwards towards the sky. There were no fingers or toes on the hands and feet, the body was covered with frightful wounds, some of which were fresh and bleeding, others covered with dead flesh or turned into excrescences....

Another Scriptwriter for Mel Gibson's 'Passion'? The movie draws from the mystical writings of a 19th-century nun who saw detailed visions of a bloody Passion. ____________________ By Laura Sheahen How is Sister Anne Emmerich connected to Mel Gibson's movie "The Passion of the Christ"? Gibson has said he was influenced by Sister Emmerich's visions as recorded in The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, which was transcribed by Emmerich's secretary, Clemens Brentano. Many non-biblical events in the movie can be traced to this book. Who was Sister Anne Emmerich? Anne Catherine Emmerich was an Augustian nun who lived in...

Ven. Anne Catherine Emmerich An Augustinian nun, stigmatic, and ecstatic, born 8 September, 1774, at Flamsche, near Coesfeld, in the Diocese of Munster, Westphalia, Germany; died at Dulmen, 9 February, 1824. Her parents, both peasants, were very poor and pious. At twelve she was bound out to a farmer, and later was a seamstress for several years. Very delicate all the time, she was sent to study music, but finding the organist's family very poor she gave them the little she had saved to enter a convent, and actually waited on them as a servant for several years. Moreover, she...