MED-75Private revelationAccount·Dominican annals·T4 (as retold) — visions and the collections that retell them
Dominicans Benedict and Bertrand: their debate ends when a soul makes Bertrand feel its pain (Ursuline of Sligo: lays a burden on him)
How it happened
- Touch and physical tracesHeat, touch, a weight; burns and prints left on objects
- Suffering for the soulsThe witness takes on, or tastes, a soul’s pain
What the soul wanted
- Gives a sign or proofA burn, a name, a fact the witness could not know
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 | pp. 259–260 |
| Ursuline of SligoStories about Purgatory and What They Reveal — An Ursuline of Sligo, 1904 (TAN 2005) | pp. 91–92 |
| JugieThe Truth about Purgatory and the Means to Avoid It — Fr Martin Jugie AA, 1949 | pp. 160–161 |
| TassoneDay by Day for the Holy Souls in Purgatory — Susan Tassone, 2014 | p. 88 |
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: Gaining Indulgences for the Holy Souls
- Chapter: How We Help the Holy Souls
- Chapter: On Indulgences
- Chapter: A Drop for the Holy Souls
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 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
Told differently elsewhere
- One version
- feels the soul's pain (Schouppe 259–260)
- Another
- a burden laid on his shoulders (Ursuline of Sligo 91–92); "the legend" (Jugie 160–161); two anonymous Dominicans (Tassone 88)
- What differs
- the mode of the sign; Jugie's grading