Anne Catherine Emmerich Emmerich. At the time of the Emmerich's beatification in 2004, the Vatican position on the authenticity of the Brentano books was elucidated by priest Peter Gumpel, who was involved in the study of the issues for the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints: "It is absolutely not certain that she ever wrote this. There is a serious problem of authenticity". According to Gumpel, the writings attributed to Emmerich were "absolutely discarded" by the Vatican as part of her beatification process. Anne Catherine began to grow ever weaker during the summer of 1823. She died on 9 February 1824 in
Jane Anne Russell Jane Anne Russell Jane Anne Russell (also called Jane Anne Russell Wilhelmi, 1911–1967) was an endocrinologist. She researched pituitary extract. Russell graduated from Long Beach Polytechnic High School, California, in 1928, as the second best student in her class. She pursued a Bachelor of Arts degree at University of California Berkeley, and graduated in 1932 as first in her class. She was awarded the California Fellowship in Biochemistry in 1934 and the Rosenburg Fellowship in 1935. Russell's PhD studies were at the Institute of Experimental Biology at the University of California, focusing on the study of pituitary hormones in carbohydrate