MED-21Private revelationAccount·Christine the Admirable·T4 (as retold) — visions and the collections that retell them
Christine and Count Louis: he begs her prayers; she expiates at the places where he sinned until he appears in light
How it happened
- Apparitions — In flames, chains or mourning, Glorified or risingThe soul is seen
- Suffering for the soulsThe witness takes on, or tastes, a soul’s pain
What the soul wanted
- Asks for prayer or other helpRosary, Stations, Office, Communion, fasting, obedience, pilgrimage, indulgences
- Thanks, or announces releaseThe soul returns to give thanks or to say it is free
Evidence
- None stated in the source
Further reading
Read it in the books
| Book | Pages |
|---|---|
| GemmingerAll Souls' Forget-Me-Not — Fr Louis Gemminger, English ed. 1889/1898 | pp. 193–194, 194 |
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
Patristic and medieval stockto c. 1500 · T4 (as retold) — visions and the collections that retell them