MED-22Private revelationAccount·St Antoninus·T4 (as retold) — visions and the collections that retell them
A sick religious chooses three days of Purgatory over a year of illness; after one hour (Ursuline of Sligo: one day) he thinks it years
How it happened
- Locutions and revealed knowledgeChrist, Mary, an angel or a soul speaks within; the seer “knows”
- Death and returnThe witness dies or nearly dies, and comes back
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 | p. 88 |
| Ursuline of SligoStories about Purgatory and What They Reveal — An Ursuline of Sligo, 1904 (TAN 2005) | p. 60 |
| PetriskoInside Purgatory — Thomas W. Petrisko, 2000 | pp. 40–42 |
| SalzaThe Biblical Basis for Purgatory — John Salza, 2008 | pp. 29–30 |
Page numbers refer to the edition named in the source list.
The Church’s teaching on this
- Question: How long does Purgatory last?
- Chapter: Time and Intensity
- Chapter: The Witnesses’ Map of Purgatory
- Question: Do the souls in Purgatory suffer?
What the witnesses report on this
- Theme G: Durations and intensityFrom a quarter of an hour to “until Judgment Day” — and why no figure is a fact.
About the witness
Patristic and medieval stockto c. 1500 · T4 (as retold) — visions and the collections that retell them
Told differently elsewhere
- One version
- one hour felt as years (Schouppe 88; Petrisko 40–42; Salza 29–30)
- Another
- one day of three (Ursuline of Sligo 60)
- What differs
- the length of time felt