MED-74Private revelationAccount·Bernardine of Siena·T4 (as retold) — visions and the collections that retell them
St Bernardine: a dead husband warns his widow through her mother; she dismisses it as a dream and dies within thirty days
How it happened
- Apparitions — Form not describedThe soul is seen
What the soul wanted
- Asks for reparationRestitution, a will or vow fulfilled, pardon, a practice corrected
- Warns, foretells or disclosesA danger, a death, a hidden sin
Evidence
- Information that could be checkedA name, a date, a hidden object, a fulfilled prediction
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. 276–277 |
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