Ven. Gratian Ponzoni and Governor Sanchez both see the plague-dead walking in procession from their graves to the church (Arona)
How it happened
- Apparitions — Form not describedThe 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
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. 313–314 |
Page numbers refer to the edition named in the source list.
The Church’s teaching on this
- Chapter: The Place of Purgatory
- Chapter: The Witnesses’ Map of Purgatory
- Question: Is Purgatory a place?
- Question: Do the souls appear to the living? What about “ghosts”?
- Chapter: The Saints and Mystics
- Chapter: The Church’s Definitions
- Question: How should I weigh private revelations about Purgatory?
What the witnesses report on this
- Theme C: Where the souls expiate — a place, the earth, the house, the “ghost”Purgatory as a place, souls serving their Purgatory on earth, haunted houses.
- 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
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- EMO-07Louis Bertrand: St Louis Bertrand (Valencia, 1557): a plague-dead religious returns as promised; a layman sees the earth open and …
- 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-21Margaret Mary: Mother de Montoux placed under the chalice on the altar of repose on Holy Thursday, relieved by the whole Order's …
- EMO-30Margaret Mary: Madame Billet's soul sends warnings to her husband; Mother Greffier ridicules this and is then terrified by a noise …
- EMO-34Frances of Pamplona: Ven. Frances of the Blessed Sacrament (Pamplona): souls fill her cell carrying the instruments of their sins, wait …
- EMO-38Agnes of Langeac: Sr de Haut Villars, dead ten years, appears silently for three weeks, especially after Communion; a voice names her; …