A dead man thanks a Polish prince for a Mass he paid for, and the prince burns his manuscript against immortality (Schouppe: a peasant's husband, after Lacordaire; O'Sullivan, Read Me or Rue It: the prince's steward)
How it happened
- Apparitions — As a living strangerThe soul is seen
What the soul wanted
- Thanks, or announces releaseThe soul returns to give thanks or to say it is free
- 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 | pp. 207–208 |
| O'Sullivan, Read Me or Rue ItRead Me or Rue It — Fr Paul O'Sullivan OP, 1936 | p. 6 |
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
19th–20th-century cases and saints1800 to the present · T4 — visions and the collections that retell them
Told differently elsewhere
- One version
- a dead peasant whose widow begged the Mass (Schouppe 207–208)
- Another
- the prince's dead steward (O'Sullivan, Read Me or Rue It 6)
- What differs
- who the soul is
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