MED-39Private revelationAccount·St Gertrude·T4 (as retold) — visions and the collections that retell them
The "Eternal Father" Precious Blood prayer frees "a vast number" (O'Sullivan, How to Avoid Purgatory) or 1,000 souls each time (Petrisko, "reportedly"); no source text in Gertrude has been located (boundary row B1)
How it happened
- Locutions and revealed knowledgeChrist, Mary, an angel or a soul speaks within; the seer “knows”
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 |
|---|---|
| O'Sullivan, How to Avoid PurgatoryHow to Avoid Purgatory — Fr Paul O'Sullivan OP, 1936 (TAN 1992) | p. 41 |
| PetriskoInside Purgatory — Thomas W. Petrisko, 2000 | pp. 58–59 |
| Eltz (Simma)Get Us Out of Here!! — Nicky Eltz (interviews with Maria Simma), 2002 | p. 293 |
Page numbers refer to the edition named in the source list.
The Church’s teaching on this
- Question: Which prayers and works help the souls most?
- Chapter: On Indulgences
- Chapter: Gaining Indulgences for the Holy Souls
- Chapter: How We Help the Holy Souls
- Chapter: A Drop for the Holy Souls
- Chapter: A Rule of Charity for the Holy Souls
- Chapter: Three Things to Arrange Before You Need Them
- Question: What should I do for the dead?
What the witnesses report on this
- Theme F: The most efficacious prayers and worksThe Mass first; then prayer, alms, works of mercy, indulgences — and the traps.
About the witness
Patristic and medieval stockto c. 1500 · T4 (as retold) — visions and the collections that retell them
Told differently elsewhere
- One version
- "a vast number" (O'Sullivan, How to Avoid Purgatory 41)
- Another
- 1,000 souls per recitation, "reportedly" (Petrisko 58–59); no attribution and no number (Eltz (Simma) 293)
- What differs
- the count; unlocated in Gertrude (B1)
More from St Gertrude
- MED-27St Gertrude: a holy nun before the throne refuses to approach the Lamb until she is pure
- MED-28St Gertrude: a dead nun before Christ, five rays from His wounds into her five senses; she sees His humanity, not yet the …
- MED-29St Gertrude: a relative "blackened by fire", his sins his executioners (Ursuline of Sligo); great sinners are not helped by the ordinary …
- MED-30St Gertrude: a disobedient nun weighed down by a burden, while souls she had freed try to lead her
- MED-31St Gertrude: the path to Heaven as an inclined plank; the hands supporting the souls are prayers; angels repel dragons
- MED-32St Gertrude: the number freed by the community's Great Psalter is proportioned to its fervour
- MED-33St Gertrude: five Paters for the Five Wounds raise a soul's throne
- MED-34St Gertrude: a nun descends into Purgatory and is at once carried up by the Church's suffrages
- MED-35St Gertrude: at the Elevation Christ descends with a gold rod whose hooks are the prayers said
- MED-36St Gertrude: "I will have pity on this soul and a million others"