MED-09Private revelationAccount·Peter Damian·T4 (as retold) — visions and the collections that retell them
St Severinus of Cologne to a canon: six months for a hastily said Office; Ursuline of Sligo adds that he stands waist-deep in a branch of the Rhine and the canon's hand is scorched
How it happened
- Apparitions — As in lifeThe soul is seen
- Touch and physical tracesHeat, touch, a weight; burns and prints left on objects
What the soul wanted
- Teaches about the afterlifeJudgement, levels, durations, pains, helps
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. 147 |
| Ursuline of SligoStories about Purgatory and What They Reveal — An Ursuline of Sligo, 1904 (TAN 2005) | p. 34 |
Page numbers refer to the edition named in the source list.
The Church’s teaching on this
- 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”?
- Chapter: Time and Intensity
- Question: How long does Purgatory last?
- Question: Do the souls in Purgatory suffer?
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.
- Theme G: Durations and intensityFrom a quarter of an hour to “until Judgment Day” — and why no figure is a fact.
About the witness
Patristic and medieval stockto c. 1500 · T4 (as retold) — visions and the collections that retell them
Told differently elsewhere
- One version
- an apparition, six months (Schouppe 147)
- Another
- standing in a branch of the Rhine, the canon's hand scorched (Ursuline of Sligo 34)
- What differs
- added physical detail
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