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LIFE OF VENERABLE ANNE CATHERINE EMMERICH "VENERABLE ANNE CATHERINE EMMERICH" Venerable Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824) Mystic, Stigmatist, Visionary, and Prophet Religious of the Order of St. Augustine, at the Convent of Agnetenberg, Dulmen, Westphalia.    TEMPLEGATE SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS NIHIL OBSTAT:  GEORGIVS D. SMITH,  D.D. CENSOR DEPVTATVS IMPRIMATVR:  EDM.  CAN.  SVRMONT VICARIVS GENERALIS WESTMONASTERII, DIE  XXI  MAII  MXMXXVIII TWENTY-SECOND EDITION 1955   MADE AND PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN(Length: Pages 15 through 59)   15 ANNE CATHERINE EMMERICH was born at Flamske, a village situated about a mile and a half from Coesfeld, in the bishopric of Munster, on the 8th of September 1774,...

Which one is he?" asked the 70-year-old lady from Yonkers. Near blind, seeing "only gray shadows," she had come to the St. Athanasius Church on Bay Parkway in Bensonhurst on this rainy, windswept evening, hoping to be healed. "The one in the purple vestments," said the lady's companion, who was leaning on a cane. "The one who looks like God." Truly, there was no mistaking the singular presence of Father Zlatko Sudac. He sat in a velvet-covered chair to the right of the altar. Moments before, the 31-year-old Croatian priest, russet shoulder-length hair pulled away from his pasty complexion, had...