Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ

Bedridden and marked with the stigmata, a German nun described the last hours of Christ in extraordinary detail. A Romantic poet sat at her bedside and wrote it all down.Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824) was an Augustinian sister at Dulmen in Westphalia. When her convent was dissolved she was left an invalid in a rented room, and from 1818 the poet Clemens Brentano sat with her and took down wha...