St John Macías: 1,400,000 freed chiefly by the Rosary, and they came at his death (O'Sullivan, Read Me or Rue It); Tassone and O'Sullivan, How to Avoid Purgatory add throngs of souls, some like doves
How it happened
- Apparitions — Symbolic or disfiguredThe soul is seen
- Deathbed and judgement scenesA death or a judgement witnessed, one’s own included
What the soul wanted
- Asks for prayer or other helpRosary, Stations, Office, Communion, fasting, obedience, pilgrimage, indulgences
- Helps or protects the livingRescue, guidance, a job found, a deathbed defended
Evidence
- None stated in the source
Further reading
Read it in the books
| Book | Pages |
|---|---|
| TassoneDay by Day for the Holy Souls in Purgatory — Susan Tassone, 2014 | pp. 278, 358 |
| O'Sullivan, Read Me or Rue ItRead Me or Rue It — Fr Paul O'Sullivan OP, 1936 | p. 14 |
| O'Sullivan, How to Avoid PurgatoryHow to Avoid Purgatory — Fr Paul O'Sullivan OP, 1936 (TAN 1992) | p. 40 |
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: 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 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 F: The most efficacious prayers and worksThe Mass first; then prayer, alms, works of mercy, indulgences — and the traps.
About the witness
Early-modern saints and religiousc. 1500–1800 · T4 — visions and the collections that retell them
Told differently elsewhere
- One version
- 1,400,000 freed by the Rosary, "inserted … in the bull" (O'Sullivan, Read Me or Rue It 14)
- Another
- the figure announced to him by St John the Evangelist (Tassone 358)
- What differs
- the source of the number
Related, from the same witness family
- 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-04Teresa of Avila: a nun of "very ordinary life" goes almost straight to Heaven because she gained indulgences
- 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-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 …
- 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 …