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A saint’s writings finally in print At New Liturgical Movement, Peter Kwasniewski drew attention to a major new publishing project. Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824) is, Kwasniewski wrote, one of the Church’s “most fascinating and complex mystics”. Beatified by John Paul II, Blessed Anne had an extraordinary range of visions. Her visions of Early Church worship, for instance, included details which were confirmed by later scholarship.
“Unfortunately,” Kwasniewski said, “Anne Catherine has been ill-served in English. Until quite recently, the available translations represented but a tiny sliver of her marvellous range of visions, edited with pious intentions and rendered in a stiff style.”
