Magdalen de Pazzi: a dead sister rises from the earth and spends her last hour of penance adoring at the altar, a white robe under her flames
How it happened
- Apparitions — In flames, chains or mourningThe soul is seen
What the soul wanted
- Shows its state onlyNo request is made
Evidence
- None stated in the source
Further reading
Read it in the books
| Book | Pages |
|---|---|
| SchouppePurgatory Illustrated by the Lives and Legends of the Saints — Fr F. X. Schouppe SJ, 1893 | p. 50 |
| PetriskoInside Purgatory — Thomas W. Petrisko, 2000 | p. 31 |
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: Gaining Indulgences for the Holy Souls
- Chapter: How We Help the Holy Souls
- Chapter: On Indulgences
- Chapter: A Drop for the Holy Souls
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 F: The most efficacious prayers and worksThe Mass first; then prayer, alms, works of mercy, indulgences — and the traps.
About the witness
Early-modern saints and religiousc. 1500–1800 · T4 — visions and the collections that retell them
Told differently elsewhere
- One version
- a sister's last hour at the altar (Schouppe 50)
- Another
- a nun condemned to adore daily for neglecting Communion (Schouppe 145)
- What differs
- possibly the same nun told twice
More from Magdalen de Pazzi
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- EMO-12Magdalen de Pazzi: a nun who neglected Communion adores daily in flames, her white robe shielding her (Florence, 1589). Possibly the …
- EMO-13Magdalen de Pazzi: Maria-Benedicta borne away by angels as a dove, held in the pain of loss, admitted to glory at the Sanctus of her …
- EMO-14Magdalen de Pazzi: her brother's soul, "miserable and blessed at the same time"; she is heard counting the 107 Communions he begs
- EMO-15Magdalen de Pazzi: Magdalen de Pazzi sees her mother in Paradise, who leaves her three counsels
- EMO-16Magdalen de Pazzi: a sister detained only fifteen hours, because she suffered much and gained indulgences
- EMO-17Magdalen de Pazzi: a fervent nun detained sixteen days for three refusals of grace
- EMO-18Magdalen de Pazzi: Magdalen de Pazzi offers the Precious Blood fifty times a day and sees souls freed by it
- EMO-19Magdalen de Pazzi: angels console the souls while devils mock them