Anne Catherine Emmerich subjective impressions of the stigmatic exercise a preponderating influence upon the manifestations which appear exteriorly.", same pathway to Stigmata described in the works by blessed John of Ruusbroec. Anne Catherine Emmerich said that as a child she had visions in which she talked with Jesus, saw the souls in Purgatory and witnessed the core of the Holy Trinity in the form of three concentric interpenetrating full spheres. The largest but dimmest of the spheres represented the Father core, the medium sphere the Son core and the smallest and brightest sphere the Holy Spirit core. Each sphere of omnipresent God is
The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter is a book by Katherine Anne Porter published by Delacorte Press in 1970. The anthology includes critical, personal, and biographical essays; three sections of an unfinished work about Cotton Mather; book reviews; letters; and poems. "The Collected Essays", in addition to containing seventeen pieces, includes all thirty-two essays published in "The Days Before" in 1952. Like "The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter" and "The Never-Ending Wrong", it consists of work Porter had written prior to her long novel "Ship