EMO-96Private revelationAccount·Maria Anna Lindmayr·T4 — visions and the collections that retell them
Maria Anna Lindmayr: souls shaped by their sins (the gluttonous emaciated, the impatient with nailed mouths); a dead friend walks before her to church and touches her foot with a glowing finger; souls like to be near their benefactors
How it happened
- Apparitions — Symbolic or disfiguredThe 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
- Teaches about the afterlifeJudgement, levels, durations, pains, helps
Evidence
- None stated in the source
Further reading
Read it in the books
| Book | Pages |
|---|---|
| Van den AardwegHungry Souls — Gerard J. M. van den Aardweg | pp. 102–104 |
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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