Catholic Encyclopedia
"[Emmerich's] visions go into details, often slight, which give them a vividness that strongly holds the reader's interest as one graphic scene follows another in rapid succession as if visible to the physical eye. Other mystics are more concerned with ideas, she with events; others stop to meditate aloud and to guide the reader's thoughts, she lets the facts speak for themselves with the simplicity, brevity, and security of a Gospel narrative."
OCT/NOV 04 - AudioFile
After introductory music, this production begins its nearly two hundred tracks of Roger Basick reading from THE VISIONS OF ANNE CATHERINE EMMERICH. This nineteenth-century recounting of Jesus's suffering is highly detailed, and those seeking material for Christian meditations will find much here. Basick's delivery is clear and easy to follow, but curiously calm for such pain-filled passages. While his tones are friendly and welcoming, his flat delivery drains emotion from the story, and, though it seems presumptuous to critique a mystical account, Emmerich's prose style will seem dated to the modern ear, and further limit the work's appeal. G.T.B. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine
