MED-42Private revelationAccount·St Bridget·T4 (as retold) — visions and the collections that retell them
Bridget: a worldly young lady tormented member by member (Schouppe: not to be taken literally)
How it happened
- Visions of Purgatory itselfThe witness is shown the place, or a release
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. 131 |
| PetriskoInside Purgatory — Thomas W. Petrisko, 2000 | pp. 35–36 |
Page numbers refer to the edition named in the source list.
The Church’s teaching on this
- Chapter: The Fathers and Tradition
- Chapter: The Saints and Mystics
- Question: Do the souls appear to the living? What about “ghosts”?
- Question: When the souls appear, what do they ask for?
- Chapter: Time and Intensity
- Chapter: The Witnesses’ Map of Purgatory
- Question: How long does Purgatory last?
- Question: Do the souls in Purgatory suffer?
What the witnesses report on this
- Theme D: How the souls appear and communicateIn flames, as light, as voices, burn marks — and what they ask for.
- 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
More from St Bridget
- MED-41St Bridget: Bridget watches a soldier's judgement, sense by sense; Mary obtains him mitigation
- MED-43St Bridget: a voice from the flames blesses those who help; a half-dark light over the prison signals deliverance
- MED-44St Bridget: Mary calls herself "Mother of all those who are in the place of expiation"
- MED-45St Bridget: Bridget's dead husband appears asking for Mass and alms (cited via Bellarmine)