St Peter Claver: moaning in his room silenced by a word at the door; a dead man's "frightful spectre" whips a labourer for not carrying his rosary; he foresees Ursula's three hours and a sick woman's twenty-four
How it happened
- Apparitions — Symbolic or disfiguredThe soul is seen
- Voices and soundsHeard, not seen: a voice, moans, sighs, knocking
- Locutions and revealed knowledgeChrist, Mary, an angel or a soul speaks within; the seer “knows”
What the soul wanted
- Asks for prayer or other helpRosary, Stations, Office, Communion, fasting, obedience, pilgrimage, indulgences
- Teaches about the afterlifeJudgement, levels, durations, pains, helps
Evidence
- A second witnessSomeone else saw or heard it too
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. 124–125, 320–321 |
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: Time and Intensity
- Question: How long does Purgatory last?
- Question: Do the souls in Purgatory suffer?
- Chapter: Gaining Indulgences 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 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
Related, from the same witness family
- EMO-01Teresa of Avila: the souls she freed rise "from the bosom of the earth"; a provincial with the face of a man under thirty; a young …
- 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-11Magdalen 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 …
- 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