Leonarde Collin (Dole, 1629), dead seventeen years, nurses her niece Hugette Roy for fourteen days as a girl in white; unmoved by the threat of exorcism; asks three Marian pilgrimages; leaves counsel at her release
How it happened
- Apparitions — Glorified or rising, As a living strangerThe soul is seen
What the soul wanted
- Asks for prayer or other helpRosary, Stations, Office, Communion, fasting, obedience, pilgrimage, indulgences
- Thanks, or announces releaseThe soul returns to give thanks or to say it is free
- Helps or protects the livingRescue, guidance, a job found, a deathbed defended
Evidence
- A test was passedSign of the cross, holy water, a set prayer, obedience
- A contemporary inquiry or documentA canonical inquiry, a signed letter, an official report
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. 62–64 |
Page numbers refer to the edition named in the source list.
The Church’s teaching on this
- Question: How should I weigh private revelations about Purgatory?
- Question: When the souls appear, what do they ask for?
- Question: Do the souls appear to the living? What about “ghosts”?
- Question: What happens to the soul at the moment of death?
- Chapter: The Place of Purgatory
- Chapter: Death and the Particular Judgement
- Chapter: What Purgatory Is
- Chapter: When Someone Dies
What the witnesses report on this
- Theme A: Death and the particular judgementWhat the soul meets at death: the tribunal, the self-judgement, the anticipated judgement.
- 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 D: How the souls appear and communicateIn flames, as light, as voices, burn marks — and what they ask for.
- Theme E: What the souls know, and do, for the livingWho prays for them, whether they pray for us, warnings, help and gratitude.
- Theme I: ConsolationsJoy and pain together; Our Lady, the angels and St Michael among the souls.
- Theme J: Discernment — soul, demon, or imaginationHow witnesses and clergy tested apparitions, and what the Church leaves free.
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-02Teresa of Avila: Bernardino de Mendoza, saved for his gift of a convent, is freed at the first Mass in the new house; she sees him …
- 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-05Teresa of Avila: A dying nun's interior acts of resignation spare her Purgatory and she appears crowned. Tassone and Jugie tell it of …
- 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-08Louis Bertrand: a dead brother in flames asks pardon for a mocking word, and a Mass
- 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 …