Margaret Mary: her former confessor, a Benedictine of Cluny, "totally enveloped in fire", stays at her side three months
How it happened
- Apparitions — In flames, chains or mourningThe soul is seen
- Touch and physical tracesHeat, touch, a weight; burns and prints left on objects
What the soul wanted
- Asks for prayer or other helpRosary, Stations, Office, Communion, fasting, obedience, pilgrimage, indulgences
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. 160–161 |
| Unpublished ManuscriptAn Unpublished Manuscript on Purgatory — Sr Mary of the Cross (ed. the Directors of Notre Dame de la Bonne Mort), English ed. 1967 | pp. 5–6 |
Page numbers refer to the edition named in the source list.
The Church’s teaching on this
- Chapter: The Fathers and Tradition
- Chapter: The Saints and Mystics
- Question: Do the souls appear to the living? What about “ghosts”?
- Question: When the souls appear, what do they ask for?
What the witnesses report on this
- Theme D: How the souls appear and communicateIn flames, as light, as voices, burn marks — and what they ask for.
About the witness
Early-modern saints and religiousc. 1500–1800 · T4 — visions and the collections that retell them
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