EMO-99Private revelationAccount·Vicar Wallbach of Hall·T4 — visions and the collections that retell them
Vicar Wallbach of Hall (d. 1605; 1669): years of noises; seen in old vestments; his thumb burned through the cover and seventy pages of a prayer book; fifty more years unless helped
How it happened
- Apparitions — Form not describedThe soul is seen
- Touch and physical tracesHeat, touch, a weight; burns and prints left on objects
- PhenomenaNoises, moved objects, lights, animals reacting
What the soul wanted
- Asks for prayer or other helpRosary, Stations, Office, Communion, fasting, obedience, pilgrimage, indulgences
- Teaches about the afterlifeJudgement, levels, durations, pains, helps
- Gives a sign or proofA burn, a name, a fact the witness could not know
Evidence
- A lasting physical traceA burn or print that remained
- A contemporary inquiry or documentA canonical inquiry, a signed letter, an official report
Further reading
Read it in the books
| Book | Pages |
|---|---|
| Van den AardwegHungry Souls — Gerard J. M. van den Aardweg | pp. 98–99 |
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 Fathers and Tradition
- Chapter: The Saints and Mystics
- Question: When the souls appear, what do they ask for?
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 D: How the souls appear and communicateIn flames, as light, as voices, burn marks — and what they ask for.
About the witness
Early-modern saints and religiousc. 1500–1800 · T4 — visions and the collections that retell them
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