Blosius: a friend's soul in flames for careless preparation for Communion, freed by one fervent Communion
How it happened
- Apparitions — In flames, chains or mourningThe soul is seen
What the soul wanted
- Asks for prayer or other helpRosary, Stations, Office, Communion, fasting, obedience, pilgrimage, indulgences
Evidence
- It stopped once help was givenThe visits ceased after the suffrage asked
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 | p. 144 |
| GemmingerAll Souls' Forget-Me-Not — Fr Louis Gemminger, English ed. 1889/1898 | p. 170 |
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.
About the witness
Early-modern saints and religiousc. 1500–1800 · T4 — visions and the collections that retell them
Related, from the same witness family
- EMO-02Teresa of Avila: Bernardino de Mendoza, saved for his gift of a convent, is freed at the first Mass in the new house; she sees him …
- EMO-03Teresa of Avila: the demon tries to stop her Office of the Dead on All Souls' eve and flees holy water; souls leave Purgatory
- EMO-04Teresa of Avila: a nun of "very ordinary life" goes almost straight to Heaven because she gained indulgences
- EMO-05Teresa of Avila: A dying nun's interior acts of resignation spare her Purgatory and she appears crowned. Tassone and Jugie tell it of …
- EMO-07Louis Bertrand: St Louis Bertrand (Valencia, 1557): a plague-dead religious returns as promised; a layman sees the earth open and …
- EMO-09Louis Bertrand: souls come to thank or beg, especially on All Souls' (Gemminger); O'Sullivan, Read Me or Rue It tells only that his own father is freed only after …
- 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-14Magdalen de Pazzi: her brother's soul, "miserable and blessed at the same time"; she is heard counting the 107 Communions he begs