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6 June 2004
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Beatification for Gibson’s inspiration
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Beatification for Gibson’s inspiration
Anna Katharina Emmerick, the German mystic whose recorded visions helped inspire Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, will be beatified in October.
So, too, will Karl I von Habsburg, the last emperor of Hungary and king of Hungary.
Anna (1774–1824) has enjoyed a renewed popular appeal in the past year because of Gibson’s movie.
Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, prefect of the Congregation for Sainthood Causes, reading the decree last year of recognition of a miracle, said she "bore the stigmata of the Lord’s Passion and received extraordinary charisms that she used for the consolation of numerous visitors”.
Forced to leave her convent by the Napoleonic invasion, she tried to describe in her Low German dialect the daily visions of the supernatural.
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