The Passion of the Christ is the latest movie endeavor by Mel Gibson. The movie tells the story of the last 12 hours of Christ's life starting with the Agony in the Garden of Gesthemene and ending with His death on the cross.

The film stars Jim Cavaziel as Christ and Maia Morgenstern as Mary.

The Original Passion of the Christ Soundtrack contains the entire haunting score for Mel Gibson's movie.

According to Mel Gibson, he was partly inspired to create this epic movie because of the book The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ. The book is based on the visions of a Catholic mystic - Venerable Anne Catherine Emmerich and tells the story of the Passion in much more detail than that found in the Bible. The book also contains a brief life of this mystic who will be beatified by the Pope in the near future.

The Passion is a brand-new book that combines pictures from Mel Gibson's movie with text from the Douay Rheims Bible. The book is 160 pages long and contains an introduction by Mel Gibson.

A Guide to the Passion: 100 Questions about Mel Gibson’s The Passion of The Christ is the definitive Catholic resource book for this momentous film. It offers an insightful scene-by-scene analysis from a uniquely Catholic perspective. The 100 answers provide a powerful catechesis that will enrich the moviegoing experience and lead seekers to deeper faith in Christ.

A Guide to the Passion was written to help moviegoers understand the many artistic and theological aspects of the movie. Through this understanding, we not only get into the mind of the movie’s creator, but also into the mind of the Creator.

The visions of Ven. Anne Catherine Emmerich were recorded in two other sets of books that cover the life of Christ and the life of Mary. The first is a four-volume set called Life of Christ and Biblical Revelations.

The Life of Jesus Christ and Biblical Revelations is one of the most extraordinary books ever to be published. These four volumes record the visions of the famous 19th-century Catholic mystic, Ven. Anne Catherine Emmerich, a nun who was privileged to behold innumerable events of biblical times, going back all the way to the creation of the world. She witnessed the fall of the Angels, the sin of Adam, Noe and the Flood, the building of the Tower of Babel, the Old Testament Patriarchs, the life and beheading of St. John the Baptist, the life of St. Anne, St. Joseph, the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Mary Magdalen - and of course the birth, life, public ministry, Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, as well as the founding of His Church. And besides describing persons, places, events and traditions in intimate detail, Anne Catherine Emmerich also sets forth the mystical significance of these visible realities, for their hidden spiritual meanings were to her an open book.

The second is called The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary from the Visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich has become a classic in Catholic literature. Based on the mystic visions of the Venerable Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824), a German Augustinian nun from Dulmen, it focuses first on the ancestry of the Blessed Virgin Mary, then on her childhood and early life, next on her life with Jesus and St. Joseph at Nazareth - though it does not include the Public Ministry of Christ. Thereafter, the narrative picks up following the Passion and Death of Our Lord.

In the closing years of the nineteenth century, the Aegean coast of Turkey witnessed three of the greatest archaeological finds of all time. Two of these - the discoveries of the ruins of Ephesus and Troy - made international headlines overnight. The third, however, in 1881, was immediately shrouded in secrecy.

It was kept secret because nobody in the Vatican believed that an obscure French priest, following the visions of an equally obscure German nun and mystic (Ven. Anne Catherine Emmerich), could possibly have found the actual house where the Virgin Mary spent her last years. Yet by the end of the century the evidence had become so compelling that scholars had pronounced the discovery authentic and Pope Leo XIII had declared the site a place of pilgrimage.

Today it is one of the holiest shrines in the world, revered by Christians and Muslims alike. Over a million people visit every year. Pope Paul VI and Pope John Paul II have both made special journeys there to worship. It has simply become the most important house on earth for Christians and Muslims around the world.

In Mary's House, Donald Carroll, the author of twelve books and an acknowledged expert on Turkey, goes back two thousand years to trace the history of a pile of hallowed, forgotten stones that almost disappeared from sight forever.

For more information about the life of Venerable Anne Catherine Emmerich we suggest the two-volume work The Life and Revelations of Anne Catherine Emmerich.

More information about The Passion of the Christ movie:

• ThePassionOfTheChrist.Com - official movie website for The Passion of the Christ
• PassionTickets.Net - official source for movie tickets for The Passion of the Christ
• Catholic.Net - large source of news articles about the movie.
• PassionMaterials.com - official site for promotion material for The Passion of the Christ

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• A Doctor at Calvary
• Life of Christ by Fulton Sheen
• The Incarnation, Birth And Infancy Of Jesus Christ
• The Shroud
• Good Friday by Fulton Sheen
• How Jesus Died
• The School of Jesus Crucified
• What Jesus Saw From the Cross