Fatima, 1917: Amélia will be "in purgatory until the end of the world"; Lucia later: believe the Church, not me
How it happened
- Locutions and revealed knowledgeChrist, Mary, an angel or a soul speaks within; the seer “knows”
What the soul wanted
- Teaches about the afterlifeJudgement, levels, durations, pains, helps
Evidence
- None stated in the source
Further reading
Read it in the books
| Book | Pages |
|---|---|
| Van den AardwegHungry Souls — Gerard J. M. van den Aardweg | pp. 34–36 |
| SalzaThe Biblical Basis for Purgatory — John Salza, 2008 | pp. 29–30 |
| Visions of PurgatoryVisions of Purgatory (Regard sur le Purgatoire) — An anonymous Portuguese layman, 1990s; English ed. Scepter | p. 89 |
| Eltz (Simma)Get Us Out of Here!! — Nicky Eltz (interviews with Maria Simma), 2002 | p. 214 |
Page numbers refer to the edition named in the source list.
The Church’s teaching on this
- Chapter: Time and Intensity
- Chapter: The Witnesses’ Map of Purgatory
- Question: How long does Purgatory last?
- Question: Do the souls in Purgatory suffer?
- Chapter: The Saints and Mystics
- Chapter: The Church’s Definitions
- Question: How should I weigh private revelations about Purgatory?
What the witnesses report on this
- Theme G: Durations and intensityFrom a quarter of an hour to “until Judgment Day” — and why no figure is a fact.
- Theme J: Discernment — soul, demon, or imaginationHow witnesses and clergy tested apparitions, and what the Church leaves free.
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
- "until the end of the world" (Van den Aardweg 34–36; Salza 29–30; Visions of Purgatory 89)
- Another
- Simma: her stubbornness might have blocked graces (Eltz (Simma) 214)
- What differs
- an interpretation added
Related, from the same witness family
- MOD-01Foligno: Foligno, 16–18 Nov 1859: Sr Teresa Gesta; moans, voice, smoke; a hand burned into the sacristy door as with a …
- 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-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 …
- MOD-15Monk of Messina: The monk of Messina: for 140 years a monk steps from behind the altar at midnight asking for a Mass; a priest …
- MOD-16Malines (Sr Mary Seraphine): Sr Mary Seraphine (Malines, 1870): an invisible presence pulls her scapular, a weight presses, a voice pleads; her …
- MOD-27Padre Pio: a dead novice at the altar; one more night in the flames, "Cruel!" (Sr Emmanuel (Simma)); broken candles and sixty years (Petrisko)
- MOD-33Mère Moes: priests detained a month, a week, two days