EMO-43Private revelationAccount·Stanislaus Chocosca·T4 — visions and the collections that retell them
Ven. Stanislaus Chocosca OP (1598): a soul lets a drop of its sweat fall on his hand and he dies within a year; earth's fires are "a refreshing breeze" by comparison
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
- Teaches about the afterlifeJudgement, levels, durations, pains, helps
- Gives a sign or proofA burn, a name, a fact the witness could not know
Evidence
- A lasting physical traceA burn or print that remained
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. 86 |
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?
- Chapter: Time and Intensity
- Chapter: The Witnesses’ Map of Purgatory
- Question: How long does Purgatory last?
- Question: Do the souls in Purgatory suffer?
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.
- Theme G: Durations and intensityFrom a quarter of an hour to “until Judgment Day” — and why no figure is a fact.
About the witness
Early-modern saints and religiousc. 1500–1800 · T4 — visions and the collections that retell them
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- EMO-03Teresa of Avila: the demon tries to stop her Office of the Dead on All Souls' eve and flees holy water; souls leave Purgatory
- EMO-06Teresa of Avila: a Carmelite two days, another four hours; a Jesuit freed at the next day's Mass; a Jesuit brother rising with Christ
- EMO-07Louis Bertrand: St Louis Bertrand (Valencia, 1557): a plague-dead religious returns as promised; a layman sees the earth open and …
- EMO-09Louis Bertrand: souls come to thank or beg, especially on All Souls' (Gemminger); O'Sullivan, Read Me or Rue It tells only that his own father is freed only after …
- 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-17Magdalen de Pazzi: a fervent nun detained sixteen days for three refusals of grace
- EMO-20Margaret Mary: a dead sister first in a dream, then on a bed of flaming points, her tongue devoured; she asks for Margaret Mary's …