MED-29Private revelationAccount·St Gertrude·T4 (as retold) — visions and the collections that retell them
Gertrude: a relative "blackened by fire", his sins his executioners (Ursuline of Sligo); great sinners are not helped by the ordinary suffrages until partly purified (Ursuline of Sligo; O'Sullivan, Read Me or Rue It gives only this last point)
How it happened
- Apparitions — In flames, chains or mourningThe soul is seen
- Locutions and revealed knowledgeChrist, Mary, an angel or a soul speaks within; the seer “knows”
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 |
|---|---|
| Ursuline of SligoStories about Purgatory and What They Reveal — An Ursuline of Sligo, 1904 (TAN 2005) | pp. 37–38 |
| O'Sullivan, Read Me or Rue ItRead Me or Rue It — Fr Paul O'Sullivan OP, 1936 | p. 11 |
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: Time and Intensity
- Chapter: The Witnesses’ Map of Purgatory
- Question: How long does Purgatory last?
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 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
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- MED-30St Gertrude: a disobedient nun weighed down by a burden, while souls she had freed try to lead her
- MED-31St Gertrude: the path to Heaven as an inclined plank; the hands supporting the souls are prayers; angels repel dragons
- MED-32St Gertrude: the number freed by the community's Great Psalter is proportioned to its fervour
- MED-33St Gertrude: five Paters for the Five Wounds raise a soul's throne
- MED-34St Gertrude: a nun descends into Purgatory and is at once carried up by the Church's suffrages
- MED-35St Gertrude: at the Elevation Christ descends with a gold rod whose hooks are the prayers said
- MED-36St Gertrude: "I will have pity on this soul and a million others"
- MED-37St Gertrude: Gertrude's Heroic Act: tempted at death, Christ remits her Purgatory and multiplies her merits; the souls she freed …