MED-20Private revelationAccount·Christine the Admirable·T4 (as retold) — visions and the collections that retell them
St Christine the Admirable dies, is shown Purgatory and Hell, returns to suffer for the souls; forty-two years of fire and ice
How it happened
- Suffering for the soulsThe witness takes on, or tastes, a soul’s pain
- Death and returnThe witness dies or nearly dies, and comes back
What the soul wanted
- Teaches about the afterlifeJudgement, levels, durations, pains, helps
Evidence
- A second witnessSomeone else saw or heard it too
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 | pp. 75, 76 |
Page numbers refer to the edition named in the source list.
The Church’s teaching on this
- Chapter: Death and the Particular Judgement
- Chapter: What Purgatory Is
- Chapter: When Someone Dies
- Question: What happens to the soul at the moment of death?
- Question: Is Purgatory a "second chance"?
- Chapter: Gaining Indulgences for the Holy Souls
- Chapter: How We Help the Holy Souls
- Chapter: On Indulgences
What the witnesses report on this
- Theme A: Death and the particular judgementWhat the soul meets at death: the tribunal, the self-judgement, the anticipated judgement.
- Theme F: The most efficacious prayers and worksThe Mass first; then prayer, alms, works of mercy, indulgences — and the traps.
About the witness
Patristic and medieval stockto c. 1500 · T4 (as retold) — visions and the collections that retell them