Bl Margaret Mary: a dead sister first in a dream, then on a bed of flaming points, her tongue devoured; she asks for Margaret Mary's works until the first Friday of May; three days of community fidelity would heal her

Read it in the books

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The Church’s teaching on this

• Chapter: The Fathers and Tradition
• Chapter: The Saints and Mystics
• Question: Do the souls appear to the living? What about “ghosts”?
• Question: When the souls appear, what do they ask for?
• Chapter: The Three States of the Church and the Communion of Saints
• Question: Do the souls in Purgatory know we pray for them?
• Question: Can the souls in Purgatory pray for us?
• Question: Can my refusal to forgive keep a soul in Purgatory?

What the witnesses report on this

• Theme D: How the souls appear and communicateIn flames, as light, as voices, burn marks — and what they ask for.
• Theme E: What the souls know, and do, for the livingWho prays for them, whether they pray for us, warnings, help and gratitude.
• Theme F: The most efficacious prayers and worksThe Mass first; then prayer, alms, works of mercy, indulgences — and the traps.
• Theme H: Days and hoursAll Souls, Christmas, Easter, Our Lady's feasts, Saturdays, the moment of the Mass.

About the witness

Early-modern saints and religiousc. 1500–1800 · T4 — visions and the collections that retell them