Baronius: a dying benefactor defended by thousands (O'Sullivan, Read Me or Rue It: 8,000) of souls he had freed (Jugie: "not above suspicion")
How it happened
- Deathbed and judgement scenesA death or a judgement witnessed, one’s own included
What the soul wanted
- Helps or protects the livingRescue, guidance, a job found, a deathbed defended
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. 288–290 |
| O'Sullivan, Read Me or Rue ItRead Me or Rue It — Fr Paul O'Sullivan OP, 1936 | p. 14 |
| JugieThe Truth about Purgatory and the Means to Avoid It — Fr Martin Jugie AA, 1949 | p. 161 |
Page numbers refer to the edition named in the source list.
The Church’s teaching on this
- Question: Can the souls in Purgatory pray for us?
- Chapter: The Three States of the Church and the Communion of Saints
- 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?
- Question: Do the souls in Purgatory know we pray for them?
- 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.
About the witness
Early-modern saints and religiousc. 1500–1800 · T4 — visions and the collections that retell them
Told differently elsewhere
- One version
- "thousands" (Schouppe 288–290)
- Another
- 8,000 (O'Sullivan, Read Me or Rue It 14); "not above suspicion" (Jugie 161)
- What differs
- the count; Jugie's caveat
Related, from the same witness family
- 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-07Louis Bertrand: St Louis Bertrand (Valencia, 1557): a plague-dead religious returns as promised; a layman sees the earth open and …
- EMO-08Louis Bertrand: a dead brother in flames asks pardon for a mocking word, and a Mass
- 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-15Magdalen de Pazzi: Magdalen de Pazzi sees her mother in Paradise, who leaves her three counsels
- EMO-20Margaret Mary: a dead sister first in a dream, then on a bed of flaming points, her tongue devoured; she asks for Margaret Mary's …
- 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-22Margaret Mary: her former confessor, a Benedictine of Cluny, "totally enveloped in fire", stays at her side three months