Thanks to Eamonn Fitzgerald’s Rainy Day: The nun’s story:
She saw, she claimed, “straps covered with iron hooks, which penetrated to the bone, and tore off large pieces flesh at every blow.” The words there of the An Icon production German nun, Sister Anne Catherine Emmerich. Today, in the piazza in front of St Peter’s Basilica in Rome, Pope John Paul II will beatify this strange 19th-century woman whose graphic accounts of Jesus’ last 12 hours formed the basis for Mel Gibson’s enormously successful film “The Passion of the Christ”. As beatification is the next step on the road to sainthood, this is a big moment for all concerned. The dark shadow of controversy hovers, however, because Sister Anne’s visions have been regarded as anti-Semitic since they were first published in 1833, and Gibson’s film was accused of the very same offence.
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