Philip Weld (1846): a drowned schoolboy seen by his father and sister beside a youth in black, later identified as St Stanislaus
How it happened
- Apparitions — As light, mist or shadowThe soul is seen
What the soul wanted
- Shows its state onlyNo request is made
Evidence
- A second witnessSomeone else saw or heard it too
- Information that could be checkedA name, a date, a hidden object, a fulfilled prediction
Further reading
Read it in the books
| Book | Pages |
|---|---|
| Ursuline of SligoStories about Purgatory and What They Reveal — An Ursuline of Sligo, 1904 (TAN 2005) | pp. 69–71 |
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
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