[The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ by Anna Catherine Emmerich]@TWC D-Link bookThe Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ INTRODUCTION 45/134
It happened that when she fainted, one of the persons who were with her, knowing that the application of relics relieved her, placed near her feet a piece of linen in which some were wrapped, and the blood which came from her wounds reached this piece of linen after a time.
In the evening, when this same piece of linen with the relics was being placed on her chest and shoulders, in which she was suffering much, she suddenly exclaimed, while in a state of ecstasy: 'It is most wonderful, but I see my Heavenly spouse lying in the tomb in the earthly Jerusalem; and I also see him living in the heavenly Jerusalem surrounded by adoring saints, and in the midst of these saints I see a person who is not a saint--a nun.
Blood flows from her head, her side, her hands, and her feet, and the saints are above the bleeding parts.' On the 9th February 1821 she fell into an ecstasy at the time of the funeral of a very holy priest.
Blood flowed from her forehead, and the cross on her breast bled also.
Someone asked her, 'What is the matter with you ?' She smiled, and spoke like one awakening from a dream: 'We were by the side of the body.
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