Bl. Anne Catherine Emmerich

Bl. Anne Catherine Emmerich lived in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and was an Augustinian Canoness known for her personal piety. She joined the Augustinians when she was twenty-eight, and eleven years later, the first signs of the stigmata were noticed on her body. Her stigmata were confirmed to be real, and for the rest of her life, she had numerous visions, many of which were focused on the Blessed Mother. Her personal holiness and mysticism led many of her contemporaries in the Church to come visit her while she was bedridden. Throughout her suffering, she united herself to Christ until her death in 1824.