SIM-R10Private revelationRevealed content·Maria Simma·T4 (unapproved) — visions and the collections that retell them
Discernment, in her own words: "if I say the souls said … then that's that"; examined at Innsbruck; calling the dead is forbidden; belief in all this is not an article of faith; she has given wrong answers; near-death accounts and her own sanity prove nothing; signs of false visionaries
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 |
|---|---|
| Eltz (Simma)Get Us Out of Here!! — Nicky Eltz (interviews with Maria Simma), 2002 | pp. 20, 29–32, 41, 49, 189, 210–211 |
| Sr Emmanuel (Simma)The Amazing Secret of Purgatory — Sr Emmanuel Maillard (interviews with Maria Simma), English 1997 | pp. 34–35 |
Page numbers refer to the edition named in the source list.
The Church’s teaching on this
- Question: Could someone who glimpsed Purgatory think they had seen Hell?
- Question: How should I weigh private revelations about Purgatory?
- Chapter: The Saints and Mystics
- Chapter: The Church’s Definitions
What the witnesses report on this
- Theme J: Discernment — soul, demon, or imaginationHow witnesses and clergy tested apparitions, and what the Church leaves free.
About the witness
Maria Simma1915–2004 · T4 (unapproved) — visions and the collections that retell them
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- SIM-01Maria Simma: 1940: a stranger paces at the foot of her bed; the second night, asked "What do you need?", he asks for three Masses …
- SIM-02Maria Simma: A soul tells her that all their information "comes from and with the permission of the Mother of Mercy"; Bishop …
- SIM-03Maria Simma: A hard-hearted woman in the deepest level, shown to her as a hippopotamus devoured by a serpent
- SIM-04Maria Simma: A Swiss unbeliever in a coma sees his whole life written on a wall (a near-death account at second hand)
- SIM-05Maria Simma: A woman of bad reputation killed by a train is saved by one sentence of acceptance (Eltz (Simma): straight to Heaven; Sr Emmanuel (Simma): …
- SIM-06Maria Simma: A young neighbour killed rushing to an avalanche: dying for another is "always a holy death"; three Masses
- SIM-07Maria Simma: A motorcyclist: his recklessness cost him thirty years of life
- SIM-08Maria Simma: A man who said he would kill God with an axe
- SIM-09Maria Simma: A priest whose right hand appears black because he neglected to bless
- SIM-10Maria Simma: A soul keeps its goiter so that the family will believe her message