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The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ.Anne Catherine EmmerichJoseph of Arimathea returned home late from the supper-room, and he was sorrowfully walkingalong the streets of Sion, accompanied by a few disciples and women, when all on a sudden a bandof armed men, who were lying in ambuscade in the neighbourhood of Caiphas’s tribunal, fell uponthem, and laid hands upon Joseph, whereupon his companions fled, uttering loud cries of terror.He was confined in a tower contiguous to the city wall, not far from the tribunal. These soldierswere pagans, and had not to keep the Sabbath, therefore Caiphas had been able to secure theirservices on this occasion. The intention was to let Joseph die of hunger, and keep his disappearancea secret.Here conclude the descriptions of all that occurred on the day of the Passion of our Lord; but wewill add some supplementary matter concerning Holy Saturday, the Descent into Hell, and theResurrection.305CHAPTER LIV.On the Name of Calvary.WHILST meditating on the name of Golgotha, Calvary, the place of skulls, borne by the rock uponwhich Jesus was crucified, I became deeply absorbed in contemplation, and beheld in spirit all agesfrom the time of Adam to that of Christ, and in this vision the origin of the name was made knownto me. I here give all that I remember on this subject.I saw Adam, after his expulsion from Paradise, weeping in the grotto where Jesus sweated bloodand water, on Mount Olivet. I saw how Seth was promised to Eve in the grotto of the manger atBethlehem, and how she brought him forth in that same grotto. I also saw Eve living in some cavernsnear Hebron, where the Essenian Monastery of Maspha was afterwards established.I then beheld the country where Jerusalem was built, as it appeared after the Deluge, and the landwas all unsettled, black, stony, and very different from what it had been before. At an immensedepth below the rock which constitutes Mount Calvary (which was formed in this spot by therolling, of the waters), I saw the tomb of Adam and Eve. The head and one rib were wanting to oneof the skeletons, and the remaining head was placed within the same skeleton, to which it did notbelong. The bones of Adam and Eve had not all been left in this grave, for Noah had some of themwith him in the ark, and they were transmitted from generation to generation by the Patriarchs.Noah, and also Abraham, were in the habit, when offering sacrifice, of always laying some ofAdam’s bones upon the altar, to remind the Almighty of his promise. When Jacob gave Joseph hisvariegated robe, he at the same time gave him some bones of Adam, to be kept as relies. Josephalways wore them on his bosom, and they were placed with his own bones in the first reliquary176
The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ.Anne Catherine Emmerichwhich the children of Israel brought out of Egypt I have seen many similar things, bat some I havefor. gotten, and the others time fails me to describe.306As regards the origin of the name of Calvary, I here give all I know. I beheld the mountain whichbears this name as it was in the time of the Prophet Eliseus. It was not the same then as at the timeof our Lords Crucifixion, but was a hill, with many walls and caverns, resembling tombs, upon it.I saw the Prophet Eliseus descend into these caverns, I cannot say whether in reality or only in avision, and I saw him take out a skull from a stone sepulchre in which bones were resting. Someone who was by his side—I think an angel—said to him, ‘This is the skull of Adam.’ The prophetwas desirous to take it away, but his companion forbade him. I saw upon the skull some few hairsof a fair colour.I learned also that the prophet having related what had happened to him, the spot received the nameof Calvary. Finally, I saw that the Cross of Jesus was placed vertically over the skull of Adam. Iwas informed that this spot was the exact centre of the earth; and at the same time I was shown thenumbers and measures proper to every country, but I have forgotten them, individually as well asin general. Yet I have seen this centre from above, and as it were from a bird’s-eye view. In thatway a person sees far more clearly than on a map all the different countries, mountains, deserts,seas, rivers, towns, and even the smallest places, whether distant or near at hand.CHAPTER LV.The Cross and the Wine-press.As I was meditating upon these words or thoughts of Jesus when hanging on the Cross: ‘I ampressed like wine placed here under the press for the first time; my blood must continue to flowuntil water comes, but wine shall no more be made here an explanation was given me by means ofanother vision relating to Calvary.307I saw this rocky country at a period anterior to the Deluge; it was then less wild and less barrenthan it afterwards became, and was laid out in vineyards and fields. I saw there the Patriarch Japhet,a majestic dark-complexioned old man, surrounded by immense flocks and herds and a numerousposterity: his children as well as himself had dwellings excavated in the ground, and covered withturf roofs, on which herbs and flowers were growing. There were vines all around, and a newmethod of making wine was being tried on Calvary, in the presence of Japhet. I saw also the ancientmethod of preparing wine, but I can give only the following description of it. At first men weresatisfied with only eating the grapes; then they pressed them with pestles in hollow stones, andfinally in large wooden trenches. Upon this occasion a new winepress, resembling the holy Crossin shape, had been devised; it consisted of the hollow trunk of a tree placed upright, with a bag ofgrapes suspended over it. Upon this bag there was fastened a pestle, surmounted by a weight; and177
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