[According to the visions of Sister Emmerich, the three women named
in the text had been living for some time at Bethania, in a sort of
community established by Martha for the purpose of providing for the
maintenance of the disciples when our Lord was moving about, and for
the division and distribution of the alms which were collected. The
widow of Naim, whose son Martial was raised from the dead by Jesus,
according to Sister Emmerich, on the 28th Marcheswan (the 18th of
November), was named Maroni. She was the daughter of an uncle, on the
father's side, of St. Peter. Her first husband was the son of a sister of
Elizabeth, who herself was the daughter of a sister of the mother of
St. Anne. Maroni's first husband having died without children, she had
married Elind, a relation of St. Anne, and had left Chasaluth, near
Tabor, to take up her abode at Naim, which was not far off, and where she
soon lost her second husband.

Dina, the Samaritan woman, was the same who conversed with Jesus by
Jacob's well. She was born near Damascus, of parents who were half Jewish
and half Pagan. They died while she was yet very young, and she being
brought up by a woman of bad character, the seeds of the most evil
passions were early sown in her heart. She had had several husbands,
who supplanted one another in turn, and the last lived at Sichar,
whither she had followed him and changed her name from Dina to Salome.
She had three grown-up daughters and two sons, who afterwards joined
the disciples. Sister Emmerich used to say that the life of this
Samaritan woman was prophetic--that Jesus had spoken to the entire sect of
Samaritans in her person, and that they were attached to their errors
by as many ties as she had committed adulteries.