St Magdalen de Pazzi's two-hour ecstatic walk through the "prisons" of Purgatory, sorted by sin (overheard by her sisters)
How it happened
- Visions of Purgatory itselfThe witness is shown the place, or a release
What the soul wanted
- Teaches about the afterlifeJudgement, levels, durations, pains, helps
Evidence
- A second witnessSomeone else saw or heard it too
Further reading
Read it in the books
| Book | Pages |
|---|---|
| SchouppePurgatory Illustrated by the Lives and Legends of the Saints — Fr F. X. Schouppe SJ, 1893 | pp. 53–55 |
| PetriskoInside Purgatory — Thomas W. Petrisko, 2000 | pp. 5–6 |
Page numbers refer to the edition named in the source list.
The Church’s teaching on this
- Essay: The Fire No Bridle Holds
- Question: Are there levels or regions in Purgatory?
- Chapter: Levels and Degrees
- Chapter: The Witnesses’ Map of Purgatory
- Question: Do the souls in Purgatory suffer?
- Chapter: Mary, Mother and Queen of the Holy Souls
- Chapter: What Purgatory Is
- Question: Is there joy in Purgatory?
What the witnesses report on this
- Theme B: Levels and degreesRegions, stages and degrees of Purgatory — and why no two witnesses layer it alike.
- Theme I: ConsolationsJoy and pain together; Our Lady, the angels and St Michael among the souls.
About the witness
Early-modern saints and religiousc. 1500–1800 · T4 — visions and the collections that retell them
More from Magdalen de Pazzi
- EMO-11Magdalen de Pazzi: a dead sister rises from the earth and spends her last hour of penance adoring at the altar, a white robe under her …
- EMO-12Magdalen de Pazzi: a nun who neglected Communion adores daily in flames, her white robe shielding her (Florence, 1589). Possibly the …
- EMO-13Magdalen de Pazzi: Maria-Benedicta borne away by angels as a dove, held in the pain of loss, admitted to glory at the Sanctus of her …
- EMO-14Magdalen de Pazzi: her brother's soul, "miserable and blessed at the same time"; she is heard counting the 107 Communions he begs
- EMO-15Magdalen de Pazzi: Magdalen de Pazzi sees her mother in Paradise, who leaves her three counsels
- EMO-16Magdalen de Pazzi: a sister detained only fifteen hours, because she suffered much and gained indulgences
- EMO-17Magdalen de Pazzi: a fervent nun detained sixteen days for three refusals of grace
- EMO-18Magdalen de Pazzi: Magdalen de Pazzi offers the Precious Blood fifty times a day and sees souls freed by it
- EMO-19Magdalen de Pazzi: angels console the souls while devils mock them