MOD-20Private revelationAccount·Burn marks and relics·T4 — visions and the collections that retell them
Marguerite Demmerlé: her mother-in-law, dead thirty years, comes as a pilgrim asking two Masses at Marienthal and burns her hand into the Imitation of Christ
How it happened
- Apparitions — As a living strangerThe soul is seen
- Touch and physical tracesHeat, touch, a weight; burns and prints left on objects
What the soul wanted
- Asks for MassesOften a stated number
- Asks for prayer or other helpRosary, Stations, Office, Communion, fasting, obedience, pilgrimage, indulgences
- 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 |
|---|---|
| Van den AardwegHungry Souls — Gerard J. M. van den Aardweg | pp. 80–82 |
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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