Her own "purgatory" in the body: "I see my soul … in the midst of my body as in a purgatory"; the prison is the world, the chain the body; "a sweet and cruel purgatory … hidden on earth"; the Lord: "I make of the body a purgatory for the soul"

Read it in the books

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The Church’s teaching on this

• Question: Are we already in Heaven, Purgatory or Hell, so that death only lifts the veil?
• Question: Can I avoid Purgatory?
• 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”?

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.

About the witness

St Catherine of Genoa1447–1510 · T4 — visions and the collections that retell them