Clemens Brentano

She's a character in the visions of 19th century Catholic mystic Anne Catherine Emmerich, who is the Virgin Mary's older sister, wife of Cleophas, and mother of Mary of Cleophas.

Now, Mystic Emmerich was a German Augustinian who claimed to have vivid visions of the crucifixion, and the poet Clemens Brentano wrote them down.

After she died in 1824, he published a book called The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, with some mix of her visions and his wordsmithing.

Gibson has said that book essentially fell off his shelf into his hands while he was researching the film.

And she'd go into...

She'd have visions and things like that.

A poet was sent to take down what her visions were.

She didn't desire that it be written down, but her superior ordered that she tell this guy...

At first, says one of these privileged maidens, she was rather discursive, possibly the number of listeners made her a little nervous, but before long all the dramatis personae in their fantastic habiliment were dancing merrily in their own odd way upon the stage of her memory.

Clemens Brentano, the romantic writer, brother of Bettina, made Frau Eya's acquaintance as a boy.

The dreaming, desultory lad, misunderstood by his father, the dry man of business, was in the position of the round peg which is being forced into the square hole.

He had made an old coffee barrel into a knightly castle called Baduz, to the amusement of the family.

Heine must become real.

Heine muss wesentlich werden, she used to say.

Rahel's intercourse with Bettina and her brother Clemens Brentano was not altogether smooth at first.

They displayed some of the old German prejudice against the Jews.