EMO-34Private revelationAccount·Frances of Pamplona·T4 — visions and the collections that retell them
Ven. Frances of the Blessed Sacrament (Pamplona): souls fill her cell carrying the instruments of their sins, wait for her at the door to Matins, greet her with a set formula, kiss her hands on the rosary
How it happened
- Apparitions — Symbolic or disfiguredThe soul is seen
What the soul wanted
- Asks for prayer or other helpRosary, Stations, Office, Communion, fasting, obedience, pilgrimage, indulgences
Evidence
- A second witnessSomeone else saw or heard it too
- A test was passedSign of the cross, holy water, a set prayer, obedience
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. 106–107, 224–226 |
| TassoneDay by Day for the Holy Souls in Purgatory — Susan Tassone, 2014 | p. 162 |
Page numbers refer to the edition named in the source list.
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: Gaining Indulgences for the Holy Souls
- Chapter: How We Help the Holy Souls
- Chapter: On Indulgences
- Chapter: A Drop for the Holy Souls
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 F: The most efficacious prayers and worksThe Mass first; then prayer, alms, works of mercy, indulgences — and the traps.
- Theme J: Discernment — soul, demon, or imaginationHow witnesses and clergy tested apparitions, and what the Church leaves free.
About the witness
Early-modern saints and religiousc. 1500–1800 · T4 — visions and the collections that retell them