Padre Pio: a dead novice at the altar; one more night in the flames, "Cruel!" (Sr Emmanuel (Simma)); broken candles and sixty years (Petrisko)
How it happened
- Apparitions — As in lifeThe soul is seen
What the soul wanted
- Thanks, or announces releaseThe soul returns to give thanks or to say it is free
- Teaches about the afterlifeJudgement, levels, durations, pains, helps
Evidence
- None stated in the source
Further reading
Read it in the books
| Book | Pages |
|---|---|
| Sr Emmanuel (Simma)The Amazing Secret of Purgatory — Sr Emmanuel Maillard (interviews with Maria Simma), English 1997 | pp. 40–41 |
| Van den AardwegHungry Souls — Gerard J. M. van den Aardweg | pp. 132–133 |
| PetriskoInside Purgatory — Thomas W. Petrisko, 2000 | pp. 44–45 |
Page numbers refer to the edition named in the source list.
The Church’s teaching on this
- Chapter: The Place of Purgatory
- Chapter: The Witnesses’ Map of Purgatory
- Question: Is Purgatory a place?
- Question: Do the souls appear to the living? What about “ghosts”?
- Chapter: Time and Intensity
- Question: How long does Purgatory last?
- Question: Do the souls in Purgatory suffer?
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 G: Durations and intensityFrom a quarter of an hour to “until Judgment Day” — and why no figure is a fact.
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
- "Cruel!" (Sr Emmanuel (Simma) 40–41)
- Another
- broken candles (Van den Aardweg 132–133); sixty years after his death (Petrisko 44–45)
- What differs
- the detail and the length
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