THE LAYMAN'S LANTERN

MED-13Private revelationAccount·Peter Damian·T4 (as retold) — visions and the collections that retell them

A dead godmother at the Ara Coeli: on the Assumption, Mary frees souls as many as Rome's population; she foretells her goddaughter's death a year later (Peter Damian)

How it happened

Apparitions — As in lifeThe soul is seen

What the soul wanted

Warns, foretells or disclosesA danger, a death, a hidden sin
Teaches about the afterlifeJudgement, levels, durations, pains, helps
Gives a sign or proofA burn, a name, a fact the witness could not know

Evidence

Information that could be checkedA name, a date, a hidden object, a fulfilled prediction

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. 178–179
PetriskoInside Purgatory — Thomas W. Petrisko, 2000	pp. 38–39, 5–6

Page numbers refer to the edition named in the source list.

The Church’s teaching on this

What the witnesses report on this

Theme H: Days and hoursAll Souls, Christmas, Easter, Our Lady's feasts, Saturdays, the moment of the Mass.

About the witness

Patristic and medieval stockto c. 1500 · T4 (as retold) — visions and the collections that retell them

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