MED-60Private revelationAccount·Bl Stephen OFM·T4 (as retold) — visions and the collections that retell them
Bl Stephen OFM: a dead religious does his Purgatory in his own choir stall for tepidity, brightening with each De Profundis
How it happened
- Apparitions — As in lifeThe soul is seen
What the soul wanted
- Asks for prayer or other helpRosary, Stations, Office, Communion, fasting, obedience, pilgrimage, indulgences
Evidence
- It stopped once help was givenThe visits ceased after the suffrage asked
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. 60–61 |
Page numbers refer to the edition named in the source list.
The Church’s teaching on this
- Question: Do the souls appear to the living? What about “ghosts”?
- Chapter: The Place of Purgatory
- Chapter: The Witnesses’ Map of Purgatory
- Question: Is Purgatory a place?
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.
About the witness
Patristic and medieval stockto c. 1500 · T4 (as retold) — visions and the collections that retell them
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