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The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ.Anne Catherine Emmerich209having bound his hands tightly into the rings which wore placed at the upper part of the pillar, theyrecommenced scourging him with even greater fury than before; and one among them struck himconstantly on the face with a new rod. The body of our Lord was perfectly torn to shreds,—it wasbut one wound. He looked at his torturers with his eyes filled with blood, as if entreating mercy;but their brutality appeared to increase, and his moans each moment became more feeble.The dreadful scourging had been continued without intermission for three quarters of an hour, whena stranger of lowly birth, a relation to Ctésiphon, the blind man whom Jesus had cured, rushed fromamidst the crowd, and approached the pillar with a knife shaped like a cutlass in his hand. ‘Cease!’he exclaimed, in an indignant tone; ‘Cease! scourge not this innocent man unto death!’ The drunkenmiscreants, taken by surprise, stopped short, while he quickly severed the cords which bound Jesusto the pillar, and disappeared among the crowd. Jesus fell almost without consciousness on theground, which was bathed with his blood. The executioners left him there, and rejoined their cruelcompanions, who were amusing themselves in the guard-house with drinking, and plaiting thecrown of thorns.Our Lord remained for a short time on the ground, at the foot of the pillar, bathed in his own blood,and two or three bold-looking girls came up to gratify their curiosity by looking at him. They gavea glance, and were turning away in disgust, but at the moment the pain of the wounds of Jesus wasso intense that he raised his bleeding head and looked at them. They retired quickly, and the soldiersand guards laughed and made game of them.210During the time of the scourging of our Lord, I saw weeping angels approach him many times; Ilikewise heard the prayers he constantly addressed to his Father for the pardon of our sins—prayerswhich never ceased during the whole time of the infliction of this cruel punishment. Whilst he laybathed in his blood I saw an angel present to him a vase containing a bright-looking beverage whichappeared to reinvigorate him in a certain degree. The archers soon returned, and after giving himsome blows with their sticks, bade him rise and follow them. He raised himself with the greatestdifficulty, as his trembling limbs could scarcely support the weight of his body; they did not givehim sufficient time to put on his clothes, but threw his upper garment over his naked shoulders andled him from the pillar to the guard-house, where he wiped the blood which trickled down his facewith a corner of his garment. When he passed before the benches on which the High Priests wereseated, they cried out, ‘Put him to death! Crucify him! crucify him!’ and then turned awaydisdainfully. The executioners led him into the interior of the guard-house, which was filled withslaves, archers, hodmen, and the very dregs of the people, but there were no soldiers.The great excitement among the populace alarmed Pilate so much, that he sent to the fortress ofAntonia for a reinforcement of Roman soldiers, and posted these well-disciplined troops round theguard-house; they were permitted to talk and to deride Jesus in every possible way, but wereforbidden to quit their ranks. These soldiers, whom Pilate had sent for to intimidate the mob,numbered about a thousand.120
The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ.Anne Catherine EmmerichCHAPTER XXIII.Mary, during the Flagellation of our Lord.211212I SAW the Blessed Virgin in a continual ecstasy during the time of the scourging of her DivineSon; she saw and suffered with inexpressible love and grief all the torments he was enduring. Shegroaned feebly, and her eyes were, red with weeping. A large veil covered her person, and she leantupon Mary of Heli, her eldest sister, 12 who was old and extremely like their mother, Anne. Maryof Cleophas, the daughter of Mary of Heli, was there also. The friends of Jesus and Mary stoodaround the latter; they wore large veils, appeared overcome with grief and anxiety, and were weepingas if in the momentary expectation of death. The dress of Mary was blue; it was long, and partlycovered by a cloak made of white wool, and her veil was of rather a yellow white. Magdalen wastotally beside herself from grief, and her hair was floating loosely under her veil.When Jesus fell down at the foot of the pillar, after the flagellation, I saw Claudia Procles, the wifeof Pilate, send some large pieces of linen to the Mother of God. I know not whether she thoughtthat Jesus would be set free, and that his Mother would then require linen to dress his wounds, orwhether this compassionate lady was aware of the use which would be made of her present. At thetermination of the scourging, Mary came to herself for a time, and saw her Divine Son all torn andmangled, being led away by the archers after the scourging: he wiped his eyes, which were filledwith blood, that he might look at his Mother, and she stretched out her hands towards him, andcontinued to look at the bloody traces of his footsteps. I soon after saw Mary and Magdalen approachthe pillar where Jesus had been scourged; the mob were at a distance, and they were partly concealedby the other holy women, and by a few kind-hearted persons who had joined them; they knelt downon the ground near the pillar, and wiped up the sacred blood with the linen which Claudia Procleshad sent. John was not at that time with the holy women, who were about twenty in number. Thesons of Simeon and of Obed, and Veronica, as also the two nephews of Joseph of Arimathea—Aramand Themni—were in the Temple, and appeared to be overwhelmed with grief. It was not morethan nine o’clock A.M. when the scourging terminated.CHAPTER XXIV.12 Mary of Heli is often spoken of in this relation. According to Sister Emmerich, she was the daughter of St. Joachim and St.Anne, and was born nearly twenty years before the Blessed Virgin. She was not the child of promise, and is called Mary of Heli,by which she is distinguished from the other of the same name, because she was the daughter of Joachim, or Heliachim. Herhusband bore the name of Cleophas, and her daughter that of Mary of Cleophas. This daughter was, however, older than heraunt, the Blessed Virgin, and had been married first to Alpheus, by whom she had three sons, afterwards the Apostles Simon,James the Less and Thaddeus. She had one son by her second husband, Sabat and another called Simon, by her third husband,Jonas. Simon was afterwards Bishop of Jerusalem.121
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