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Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich 4 - 1 8 2 4 7 H ELL 1 7 nne Catherine Emmerich was born there rages the pain and one suffers the 18th of September 1774 at therefore torments in an indefinite Flamsche, near Coesfeld in Germany and variety of manifestations and of penalties. Aentered into the Monastery of Agnetenberg Each damned person has this thought in Dulmen (Westphalia) of the Canonesses always present: that the torments, that Regular of Saint Augustine, where she one suffers, are the natural and just died the 9th of November 1824. fruition of one’s own misdeeds. How much one feels and one sees of the horrible in Famous for her mystical experiences, Hell is the essence, the interior form of the Blessed had also a vision of Hell, the exposed sin. Of that poisonous serpent, when she saw the Saviour descend into that devours so many who foment him in the netherworld. “I saw (…) the Saviour their bosom during a mortal test. All of approach, towards, the center of the this one can comprehend when seen, but abyss. Hell to me seemed like an immense it turns out inexpressible in words. gloomy cavern, barely illuminated by a dull light almost metallic. On its entrance “When the Angels, that were escorting protruded enormous black doors, with Jesus, had knocked down the infernal incandescent locks and bolts. Wails of walls, a storm rose up of curses, insults, horror rose up without ceasing from that shrieks and laments. Several Angels else- frightful pit of which, all of a sudden, the where chased endless swarms of demons, doors collapsed. Thus I was able to see those who would have then had to a horrid world of desolation and of recognize and adore the Redeemer. gloom. The Inferno is a prison of eternal wrath, where discordant and desperate “This was their worst torment. beings are thrashed. While in Heaven Many of them then became imprisoned joy is savored and the Most High is in a sort of sphere, which resulted in adored in gardens rich in beautiful many concentric sectors. At the center of flowers and exquisite fruits which impart the Inferno a dark pit sank, where life, in Hell instead cavernous prisons Lucifer was hurled in chains, and who are sinking, horrendous deserts extend was immersed in dark angry vapors. All and immeasurable lakes are spotted of this occurred according to determined worldly. Some of them were unleashed overflowing with frightening monsters, divine mysteries. in our days; others will be soon. While I horrible. In that place hums the eternal deal with this topic, the infernal scenes and the terrible discord of the damned. “I knew that Lucifer will be I saw were so horrific in front of my eyes, unchained for some time: fifty or sixty that the sight of them could even make “In Heaven instead reigns the union years before the year 2000 of Christ, if me die.” of the Saints eternally blessed. The Inferno, I do not err. Some demons instead are on the contrary, imprisons as much as the to be loosened before that epoch in world produces of corruption and of error; order to castigate and exterminate the © Associazione Carlo Acutis.