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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