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The Dolorous Passion Now Online 2004-10-03

Posted by Peter Kirby at 9:54 AM | Permalink

The account of The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ by Anne Catherine Emmerich has achieved notoriety through the film The Passion of the Christ, directed by Mel Gibson, who drew upon the text to some degree. Now anyone can read the book online at sacred-texts.com and judge for herself what has been said about the book and the film.

1 Comments:

Blogger Peter Kirby said...

A footnote to this: Emmerich has just been beatified by the Pope and is thus on the way to sainthood.

3:59 PM  

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