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Anne Catherine Emmerich

1774 - 1824

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Anne Catherine Emmerich, CRV (also Anna Katharina Emmerick; 8 September 1774 – 9 February 1824) was a Roman Catholic Augustinian canoness of the Congregation of Windesheim. During her lifetime, she was a mystic, Marian visionary and stigmatist. Emmerich was born in Flamschen, an impoverished farming community at Coesfeld, in the Diocese of Münster, Westphalia, Germany, and died in Dülmen (aged 49), where she had been a bedridden nun. Emmerich purportedly experienced visions on the life and Passion of Jesus Christ as revealed to her by the Blessed Virgin Mary under religious ecstasy. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anne Catherine Emmerich is the 616th most popular religious figure (down from 607th in 2019), the 543rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 540th in 2019) and the 13th most popular German Religious Figure.

Anne Catherine Emmerich was a German mystic and seer who had visions of the Virgin Mary and the life of Jesus. She is most famous for her account of the life of Jesus, which she wrote in 1820.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Anne Catherine Emmerich ranks 616 out of 3,187. Before her are Mus‘ab ibn 'Umair, Saint Giles, Eli, Saint Casimir, Tamar, and Canaan. After her are Rāhula, John Wesley, Abbas ibn Ali, Zayd ibn Thabit, Simon Magus, and `Abdu'l-Bahá.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1774, Anne Catherine Emmerich ranks 4. Before her are Caspar David Friedrich, Daniel D. Tompkins, and Jean-Baptiste Biot. After her are Auguste de Marmont, Francis Beaufort, Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Gaspare Spontini, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands, Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, and Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge. Among people deceased in 1824, Anne Catherine Emmerich ranks 5. Before her are Louis XVIII of France, Lord Byron, Théodore Géricault, and Eugène de Beauharnais. After her are Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia, Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, James Parkinson, Agustín de Iturbide, Giovanni Battista Viotti, Maria Luisa, Duchess of Lucca, and Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Anne Catherine Emmerich ranks 543 out of 7,253. Before her are Hans Baldung (1484), Ulrike Meinhof (1934), Theodor Morell (1886), Hans Fritzsche (1900), Henning von Tresckow (1901), and Dietrich von Choltitz (1894). After her are Kurt Meyer (1910), Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1817), Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1858), Jochen Rindt (1942), Maria Josepha of Bavaria (1739), and Pyotr Stolypin (1862).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Germany

Among religious figures born in Germany, Anne Catherine Emmerich ranks 13. Before her are Pope Damasus II (1000), Philip Melanchthon (1497), Pope Clement II (1005), Pope Victor II (1018), Thomas à Kempis (1380), and Bruno of Cologne (1030). After her are Rabanus Maurus (780), Conrad Schumann (1942), Albert of Brandenburg (1490), Nicolaus Zinzendorf (1700), Johann Tetzel (1460), and Gertrude the Great (1256).

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