MED-67Private revelationAccount·Mary Villani·T4 (as retold) — visions and the collections that retell them
Bl Mary Villani: a soul touches her forehead with "a finger of fire"; the mark lasts two months
How it happened
- Touch and physical tracesHeat, touch, a weight; burns and prints left on objects
What the soul wanted
- Gives a sign or proofA burn, a name, a fact the witness could not know
Evidence
- A lasting physical traceA burn or print that remained
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. 133 |
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?
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.
About the witness
Patristic and medieval stockto c. 1500 · T4 (as retold) — visions and the collections that retell them