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The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ.Anne Catherine Emmerich308on both sides of the trunk were arms joined to the bag, through openings made for the purpose, andwhich, when put in motion by lowering the ends, crushed the grapes. The juice flowed out of thetree by five openings, and fell into a stone vat, from whence it flowed through a channel made ofbark and coated with resin, into the species of cistern excavated in the rock where Jesus was confinedbefore his Crucifixion. At the foot of the wine-press, in the stone vat, there was a sort of sieve tostop the skins, which were put on one side. When they had made their wine-press, they filled thebag with grapes, nailed it to the top of the trunk, placed the pestle, and put in motion the side arms,in order to make the wine flow. All this very strongly reminded me of the Crucifixion, on accountof the resemblance between the wine-press and the Cross. They had a long reed, at the end of whichthere were points, so that it looked like an enormous thistle, and they ran this through the channeland trunk of the tree when there was any obstruction. I was reminded of the lance and sponge.There were also some leathern bottles, and vases made of bark and plastered with resin. I sawseveral young men, with nothing but a cloth wrapped round their loins like Jesus, working at thiswine-press. Japhet was very old; he wore a long beard, and a dress made of the skins of beasts; andhe looked at the new wine-press with evident satisfaction. It was a festival day, and they sacrificedon a stone altar some animals which were running loose in the vineyard, young asses, goats, andsheep. It was not in this place that Abraham came to sacrifice Isaac; perhaps it was on MountMoriah. I have forgotten many of the instructions regarding the wine, vinegar, and skins, and thedifferent ways in which everything was to be distributed to the right and to the left; and I regret it,because the veriest trifles in these matters have a profound symbolical meaning. If it should be thewill of God for me to make them known, be will show them to me again.CHAPTER LVI.Apparitions on Occasion of the Death of Jesus.AMONG the dead who rose from their graves, and who were certainly a hundred in number, atJerusalem, there were no relations, of Jesus. I saw in various parts of the Holy Land others of thedead appear and bear testimony to the Divinity of Jesus. Thus I saw Sadoch, a most pious man,who had given all his property to the poor and to the Temple, appear to many persons in theneighbourhood of Hebron. This Sadoch had lived a century before Jesus, and was the founder ofa community of Essenians: he had ardently sighed for the coming of the Messias, and had hadseveral revelations upon the subject. I saw some others of the dead appear to the hidden disciplesof our Lord, and give them different warnings.309Terror and desolation reigned even in the most distant parts of Palestine, and it was not in Jerusalemonly that frightful prodigies took place. At Thirza, the towers of the prison in which the captive’sdelivered by Jesus had been confined fell down. In Galileo, where Jesus had travelled so much, Isaw many buildings, and in particular the houses of those Pharisees who had been the foremost inpersecuting our Saviour, and who were then all at the festival, shaken to the ground, crushing their178
The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ.Anne Catherine Emmerichwives and children. Numerous accidents happened in the neighbourhood of the Lake of Genazareth.Many buildings fell down at Capharnaum; and the wall of rocks which was in front of the beautifulgarden of the centurion Zorobabel cracked across. The lake overflowed into the valley, and itswaters descended as far as Capharnaum, which was a mile and a half distant. Peter’s house, andthe dwelling of the Blessed Virgin in front of the town, remained standing. The lake was stronglyconvulsed; its shores crumbled in several places, and its shape was very much altered, and becamemore like what it is at the present day. Great changes took place, particularly at the south-easternextremity, near Tarichea, because in this part there was a long causeway made of stones, betweenthe lake and a sort of marsh, which gave a constant direction to the course of the Jordan when itleft the lake. The whole of this causeway was destroyed by the earthquake. Many accidents happenedon the eastern side of the lake, on the spot where the swine belonging to the inhabitants of Gergesacast themselves in, and also at Gergesa, Gerasa, and in the entire district of Chorazin. The mountainwhere the second multiplication of the loaves took place was shaken, and the stone upon which themiracle had been worked split in two. In Decapolis, whole towns crumbled to the earth; and inAsia, in several localities, the earthquake was severely felt, particularly to the cast and north-eastof Paneas. In Upper Galilee, many Pharisees found their houses in ruins when they returned fromkeeping the feast. A number of them, while yet at Jerusalem, received the news of what hadhappened, and it was on that account that the enemies of Jesus made such very slight efforts againstthe Christian community at Pentecost.310A part of the Temple of Garizim crumbled down. An idol stood there above a fountain, in a smalltemple, the roof of which fell into the fountain with the idol. Half of the synagogue of Nazareth,out of which Jesus had been driven, fell down, as well as that part of the mountain from which hisenemies had endeavoured to precipitate him. The bed of the Jordan was much changed by all theseshocks, and its course altered in many places. At Macherus, and at the other towns belonging toHerod, everything remained quiet, for that country was out of the sphere of repentance and ofthreats, like those men who did not fall to the ground in the Garden of Olives, and, consequently,did not rise again.In many other parts where there were evil spirits, I saw the latter disappear in large bodies amidthe falling mountains and buildings. The earthquakes reminded me of the convulsions of thepossessed, when the enemy feels that he must take to flight. At Gergesa, a part of the mountainfrom which the devils had cast themselves with the swine into a marsh, fell into this same marsh;and I then saw a band of evil spirits cast themselves into the abyss, like a dark cloud.It was at Nice, unless I am mistaken, that I saw a singular occurrence, of which I have only animperfect remembrance. There was a port there with many vessels in it; and near this port stood ahouse with a high tower, in which I saw a pagan whose office was to watch these vessels. He hadoften to ascend this tower, and see what was going on at sea. Having heard a great noise over thevessels in the port, he hurriedly ascended the tower to discover what was taking place, and he sawseveral dark figures hovering over the port, and who exclaimed to him in plaintive accents: ‘If thoudesirest to preserve the vessels, cause them to be sailed out of this port, for we must return to theabyss: the great Pan is dead.’ They told him several other things; laid injunctions upon him to makeknown what they were then telling him upon his return from a certain voyage which he was soon179
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