Sr Marie-Denise (Visitation): the duellist prince saved by contrition but sentenced "until the Day of Judgment"; her years of suffering win him a few hours; she lives among "a troop" of souls; releases on the feast of Our Lady of Angels
How it happened
- Visions of Purgatory itselfThe witness is shown the place, or a release
- Suffering for the soulsThe witness takes on, or tastes, a soul’s pain
What the soul wanted
- Teaches about the afterlifeJudgement, levels, durations, pains, helps
Evidence
- None stated in the source
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. 115–116 |
| Ursuline of SligoStories about Purgatory and What They Reveal — An Ursuline of Sligo, 1904 (TAN 2005) | pp. 92–94 |
| JugieThe Truth about Purgatory and the Means to Avoid It — Fr Martin Jugie AA, 1949 | pp. 29, 54–55 |
Page numbers refer to the edition named in the source list.
The Church’s teaching on this
- Question: What if I fear that someone I love is lost?
- Question: What happens to the soul at the moment of death?
- Chapter: Time and Intensity
- Chapter: Death and the Particular Judgement
- Chapter: What Purgatory Is
- Chapter: When Someone Dies
- Question: Is Purgatory a "second chance"?
- Chapter: The Fathers and Tradition
What the witnesses report on this
- Theme A: Death and the particular judgementWhat the soul meets at death: the tribunal, the self-judgement, the anticipated judgement.
- Theme D: How the souls appear and communicateIn flames, as light, as voices, burn marks — and what they ask for.
- Theme G: Durations and intensityFrom a quarter of an hour to “until Judgment Day” — and why no figure is a fact.
- 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
Related, from the same witness family
- EMO-01Teresa of Avila: the souls she freed rise "from the bosom of the earth"; a provincial with the face of a man under thirty; a young …
- 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-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-06Teresa of Avila: a Carmelite two days, another four hours; a Jesuit freed at the next day's Mass; a Jesuit brother rising with Christ
- 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-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