MOD-06Private revelationAccount·The servant's monthly Mass·T4 — visions and the collections that retell them
A servant pays for a monthly Mass with her last franc; a pale young man sends her to a house, where she recognises his portrait (Schouppe: Paris c. 1827; O'Sullivan, Read Me or Rue It: "Jeanne Marie", a scar; Eltz (Simma): Simma tells it of a French domestic and a son Henri)
How it happened
- Apparitions — As a living strangerThe soul is seen
What the soul wanted
- Helps or protects the livingRescue, guidance, a job found, a deathbed defended
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. 294–296 |
| O'Sullivan, Read Me or Rue ItRead Me or Rue It — Fr Paul O'Sullivan OP, 1936 | p. 19 |
| Eltz (Simma)Get Us Out of Here!! — Nicky Eltz (interviews with Maria Simma), 2002 | pp. 141–142 |
Page numbers refer to the edition named in the source list.
The Church’s teaching on this
- Chapter: The Fathers and Tradition
- Chapter: The Saints and Mystics
- Question: Do the souls appear to the living? What about “ghosts”?
- Question: When the souls appear, what do they ask for?
- Chapter: The Three States of the Church and the Communion of Saints
- Question: Do the souls in Purgatory know we pray for them?
- Question: Can the souls in Purgatory pray for us?
- Question: Can my refusal to forgive keep a soul in Purgatory?
What the witnesses report on this
- 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
Told differently elsewhere
- One version
- Paris, the son dead two years (Schouppe 294–296)
- Another
- "Jeanne Marie", dead over a year, a scar (O'Sullivan, Read Me or Rue It 19); a French domestic, the son Henri dead four years, told by Simma (Eltz (Simma) 141–142)
- What differs
- three versions; Simma repeats a 19th-century exemplum
Related, from the same witness family
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- MOD-02Latrobe Abbey: Latrobe, 1859: a Benedictine in choir dress appears daily at 11 a.m. or 2 a.m., unheeded for 77 years; seven Masses, …
- MOD-03Antwerp: the soul of a banker (d. 1636) wakes a child nightly, an old man seen to the waist in old-fashioned dress; the …
- MOD-04Ardoye: Ardoye, 1849: Eugénie Wybo, in her working dress, to her servant: a hidden purse to pay for Masses at two francs each
- MOD-05The Polish prince: A dead man thanks a Polish prince for a Mass he paid for, and the prince burns his manuscript against immortality …
- MOD-10Philip Weld: Philip Weld (1846): a drowned schoolboy seen by his father and sister beside a youth in black, later identified as …
- MOD-11Vienna: a lady fetches a priest with the Viaticum to an unbeliever's house; she is his dead mother; he confesses and is …
- MOD-12Marie de St-Pierre: Sr Marie de St-Pierre (Tours, 1846): the Duke of Orléans freed; "Call me Ferdinand"; she admits no supernatural …