THE LAYMAN'S LANTERN

MOD-03Private revelationAccount·Antwerp·T4 — visions and the collections that retell them

Antwerp: the soul of a banker (d. 1636) wakes a child nightly, an old man seen to the waist in old-fashioned dress; the Pater–Ave–Credo test; a shop assistant's sacrilegious Communion revealed; the house quiet ever since

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
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
It stopped once help was givenThe visits ceased after the suffrage asked
A test was passedSign of the cross, holy water, a set prayer, obedience

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. 117–119

Page numbers refer to the edition named in the source list.

The Church’s teaching on this

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.
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

19th–20th-century cases and saints1800 to the present · T4 — visions and the collections that retell them

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