MED-73Private revelationAccount·Bernardine of Siena·T4 (as retold) — visions and the collections that retell them
Blasio Massei, dying, is led by St Bernardine through Hell and Purgatory and returns with souls' messages naming the alms and Masses owed them
How it happened
- Visions of Purgatory itselfThe witness is shown the place, or a release
- Death and returnThe witness dies or nearly dies, and comes back
What the soul wanted
- Asks for reparationRestitution, a will or vow fulfilled, pardon, a practice corrected
- Warns, foretells or disclosesA danger, a death, a hidden sin
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. 105, 105–106 |
Page numbers refer to the edition named in the source list.
The Church’s teaching on this
- Chapter: Death and the Particular Judgement
- Chapter: What Purgatory Is
- Chapter: When Someone Dies
- Question: What happens to the soul at the moment of death?
- Question: Is Purgatory a "second chance"?
- Chapter: Levels and Degrees
- Chapter: The Witnesses’ Map of Purgatory
- Question: Are there levels or regions in Purgatory?
What the witnesses report on this
- Theme A: Death and the particular judgementWhat the soul meets at death: the tribunal, the self-judgement, the anticipated judgement.
- Theme B: Levels and degreesRegions, stages and degrees of Purgatory — and why no two witnesses layer it alike.
- Theme E: What the souls know, and do, for the livingWho prays for them, whether they pray for us, warnings, help and gratitude.
About the witness
Patristic and medieval stockto c. 1500 · T4 (as retold) — visions and the collections that retell them