Fr Berlioux's account: the devil at a woman's deathbed is driven off by a dazzling crowd of the souls she had freed
How it happened
- Deathbed and judgement scenesA death or a judgement witnessed, one’s own included
What the soul wanted
- Helps or protects the livingRescue, guidance, a job found, a deathbed defended
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 | p. 16 |
Page numbers refer to the edition named in the source list.
The Church’s teaching on this
- 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 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
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-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-06The servant's monthly Mass: A servant pays for a monthly Mass with her last franc; a pale young man sends her to a house, where she recognises …
- 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-25Anna Maria Taigi: a soul freed at the Gloria thanks her
- MOD-30Padre Pio: souls on their way to Heaven stop at the friary door to thank him