erich, read, in the Latin edition
of the Roman Catechism (Mayence, Muller), in reference to the Sacrament
of Confirmation, that, according to the tradition of the holy pope
Fabian, Jesus taught his Apostles in what manner they were to prepare
the Holy Chrism, after the institution of the Blessed Sacrament. The
Pope says expressly, in the 54th paragraph of his Second Epistle to the
Bishops of the East: 'Our predecessors received from the Apostles and
delivered to us that our Saviour Jesus Christ, after having made the
Last Supper with his Apostles and washed their feet, taught them how to
prepare the Holy Chrism.'

8 On the 11th of December 1812, in her visions of the public life
of Jesus, she saw our Lord permit the devils whom he had expelled from
the men of Gergesa to enter into a herd of swine, she also saw, on this
particular occasion that the possessed men first overturned a large vat
filled with some fermented liquid.

9 Dulmen is a small town in Westphalia, where Sister Emmerich
lived at this time.

10 Mary of Heli is often spoken of in this relation. According to
Sister Emmerich, she was the daughter of St. Joachim and St. Anne, and
was born nearly twenty years before the Blessed Virgin. She was not the
child of promise, and is called Mary of Heli, by which she is
distinguished from the other of the same name, because she was the
daughter of Joachim, or Heliachim. Her husband bore the name of
Cleophas, and her daughter that of Mary of Cleophas. This daughter was,
however, older than her aunt, the Blessed Virgin, and had been married
first to Alpheus, by whom she had three sons, afterwards the Apostles
Simon, James the Less and Thaddeus. She had one son by her second
husband, Sabat, and another called Simon, by her third husband, Jonas.
Simon was afterwards Bishop of Jerusalem.

11 These meditations on the sufferings of Jesus filled Sister
Emmerich with such feelings of compassion that she begged of God to
allow her to suffer as he had done. She instantly became feverish and
parched with thirst, and, by morning, was speechless from the
contraction of her tongue and of her lips. She was in this state when
her friend came to her in the morning, and she looked like a victim
which had just been sacrificed. Those around succeeded, with some
difficulty, in moistening her mouth with a little water, but it was
long before she could give any further details concerning her
meditations on the Passion.