MED-03Private revelationAccount·Gregory the Great·T4 (as retold) — visions and the collections that retell them
The dead master of the baths of Centumcellae serves a priest, refuses blessed bread, asks for "the Bread of the Eucharist" (Gregory)
How it happened
- Apparitions — As a living strangerThe soul is seen
What the soul wanted
- Asks for MassesOften a stated number
Evidence
- None stated in the source
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
- Chapter: The Fathers and Tradition
- 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”?
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