MED-02Private revelationAccount·Gregory the Great·T4 (as retold) — visions and the collections that retell them
Deacon Paschasius serving at the baths; gone after Germanus prays (Gregory, Dial. IV)
How it happened
- Apparitions — As in lifeThe soul is seen
What the soul wanted
- Asks for prayer or other helpRosary, Stations, Office, Communion, fasting, obedience, pilgrimage, indulgences
Evidence
- It stopped once help was givenThe visits ceased after the suffrage asked
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. 60 |
Page numbers refer to the edition named in the source list.
The Church’s teaching on this
- Question: Do the souls appear to the living? What about “ghosts”?
- Question: Is Purgatory a place?
- Chapter: The Place of Purgatory
- Chapter: The Fathers and Tradition
- Chapter: The Witnesses’ Map of Purgatory
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.
About the witness
Patristic and medieval stockto c. 1500 · T4 (as retold) — visions and the collections that retell them