I saw the Blessed Virgin being lifted up several times a day by the women to be given a spoonful of juice which had been pressed from a bunch of yellow berries... Newcomers tenderly embraced those who were already there... After their feet had been washed, they approached Mary's couch and greeted her with reverence... She could only say a few words to them... Towards evening she realized that her end was approaching and said farewell to the Apostles, disciples and women who were present... She lay back on her pillows, pale and still... Peter gave her Holy Communion... She died after the ninth hour, at the same time as Our Lord...

 

Matthew and Andrew then followed Mary' Way of the Cross until the last Station, half and hour's journey from the house, which was the cave representing the Holy Sepulcher... Here they worked to enlarge the tomb and to built a door with which to close the entrance... Women came to the house to prepare the body for burial, bringing with them clothes as well as spices to embalm the body... The house was closed and they worked lamplight... Two women washed the holy body... John carried a vessel with ointment... 

Peter dipped a finger of his right hand into it and anointed the breast, hands and feet of the Blessed Virgin, praying as he did so... Bunches of myrrh were laid in the armpits and bosom and in the spaces between the shoulders and the neck, chin and cheeks... They wrapped the holy body in a great grave-cloth and placed it in the wicker coffin which stood near... On her breast was laid a wreath of red, white and sky-blue flowers... The coffin was then taken to the cave where she was buried."

 

The date of Mary's death perhaps fades in importance when Sister Emmerich tells us that after Mary's entombment St John took St Thomas, who had arrived late, to see the Virgin one last time. Once inside the cave, they knelt and St John opened the lid of the coffin. Mary's body was not in the burial shroud, but the shroud remained intact. They carefully covered up the entrance to the cave and left.