She was living at Ainon, having been repudiated by her husband, a rich Jew, who had kept the children he had had by her with him.

She had with her tree others, the offspring of her adulteries.
'I saw,' Sister Emmerich would say,--'I saw how the stray branch of the stock of David was purified within her by the grace of Jesus, and admitted into the bosom of the Church.

I cannot express how many of these roots and offshoots I see become entwined with each other, lost to view, and then once more brought to light.'] Joseph of Arimathea returned home late from the supper-room, and he was sorrowfully walking along the streets of Sion, accompanied by a few disciples and women, when all on a sudden a band of armed men, who were lying in ambuscade in the neighbourhood of Caiphas's tribunal, fell upon them, and laid hands upon Joseph, whereupon his companions fled, uttering loud cries of terror.

He was confined in a tower contiguous to the city wall, not far from the tribunal.

These soldiers were pagans, and had not to keep the Sabbath, therefore Caiphas had been able to secure their services on this occasion.