Margaret Mary: Mother de Montoux placed under the chalice on the altar of repose on Holy Thursday, relieved by the whole Order's suffrages, freed on Good Shepherd Sunday "with a million other souls"; two souls bid adieu (letter of 1683)
How it happened
- Apparitions — Glorified or risingThe soul is seen
- Locutions and revealed knowledgeChrist, Mary, an angel or a soul speaks within; the seer “knows”
What the soul wanted
- Thanks, or announces releaseThe soul returns to give thanks or to say it is free
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 | pp. 98–100 |
| Ursuline of SligoStories about Purgatory and What They Reveal — An Ursuline of Sligo, 1904 (TAN 2005) | p. 89 |
| TassoneDay by Day for the Holy Souls in Purgatory — Susan Tassone, 2014 | p. 307 |
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: 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 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 E: What the souls know, and do, for the livingWho prays for them, whether they pray for us, warnings, help and gratitude.
- Theme G: Durations and intensityFrom a quarter of an hour to “until Judgment Day” — and why no figure is a fact.
- Theme H: Days and hoursAll Souls, Christmas, Easter, Our Lady's feasts, Saturdays, the moment of the Mass.
About the witness
Early-modern saints and religiousc. 1500–1800 · T4 — visions and the collections that retell them
Told differently elsewhere
- One version
- 2 Feb – 2 May (Schouppe 98–99)
- Another
- 5 Feb – 1 May, "eighty-six days" (Ursuline of Sligo 89)
- What differs
- the dates and the length
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- EMO-23Margaret Mary: a novice's father judged favourably because he asked the butcher's pardon when receiving Viaticum
- EMO-24Margaret Mary: a light chastisement for humiliations borne without a word
- EMO-25Margaret Mary: a dead nun's three assaults by the demon in her agony
- EMO-26Margaret Mary: a great lady's Masses applied to the souls of the subjects she ruined
- EMO-27Margaret Mary: souls who were at odds with their superiors are deprived of Mary's, the saints' and the angels' help
- EMO-28Margaret Mary: a nun who failed in charity is relieved only by the prayers of the sisters she liked least
- EMO-29Margaret Mary: Margaret Mary's New Year gift: she may choose one of three souls to free; Christ frees the secular
- EMO-30Margaret Mary: Madame Billet's soul sends warnings to her husband; Mother Greffier ridicules this and is then terrified by a noise …