In the year 1823, on Holy Thursday and Good Friday, which came on
the 27th and 28th of March, she had visions of the Passion, during
which blood flowed from all her wounds, causing her intense pain. Amid
these awful sufferings, although ravished in spirit, she was obliged to
speak and give answers concerning all her little household affairs, as
if she had been perfectly strong and well, and she never let fall a
complaint, although nearly dying. This was the last time that her blood
gave testimony to the reality of her union with the sufferings of him
who has delivered himself up wholly and entirely for our salvation.
Most of the phenomena of the ecstatic life which are shown us in the
lives and writings of Saints Bridget, Gertrude, Mechtilde, Hildegarde,
Catherine of Sienna, Catherine of Genoa, Catherine of Bologna, Colomba
da Rieti, Lidwina of Schiedam, Catherine Vanini, Teresa of Jesus, Anne
of St. Bartholomew, Magdalen of Pazzi, Mary Villana, Mary Buonomi,
Marina d' Escobar, Crescentia de Kaufbeuern, and many other nuns of
contemplative orders, are also to be found in the history of the
interior life of Anne Catherine Emmerich. The same path was marked out
for her by God. Did she, like these holy women, attain the end? God
alone knows. Our part is only to pray that such may have been the case,
and we are allowed to hope it. Those among our readers who are not
acquainted with the ecstatic life from the writings of those who have
lived it, will find information on this subject in the Introduction of
Goerres to the writings of Henry Suso, published at Ratisbonne in 1829.

Since many pious Christians, in order to render their life one
perpetual act of adoration, endeavour to see in their daily employments
a symbolical representation of some manner of honouring God, and offer
it to him in union with the merits of Christ, it cannot appear
extraordinary that those holy souls who pass from an active life to one