Padre Pio: a man who died in a fire at the friary asks for one Mass (Sr Emmanuel (Simma): Pietro Di Mauro, 1908, confirmed by the register of deaths; Van den Aardweg: 1886, about 32 years)
How it happened
- Apparitions — As in lifeThe soul is seen
What the soul wanted
- Asks for MassesOften a stated number
Evidence
- Information that could be checkedA name, a date, a hidden object, a fulfilled prediction
Further reading
Read it in the books
| Book | Pages |
|---|---|
| Sr Emmanuel (Simma)The Amazing Secret of Purgatory — Sr Emmanuel Maillard (interviews with Maria Simma), English 1997 | pp. 41–42 |
| Van den AardwegHungry Souls — Gerard J. M. van den Aardweg | pp. 131–132 |
Page numbers refer to the edition named in the source list.
The Church’s teaching on this
- Chapter: The Saints and Mystics
- Chapter: The Place of Purgatory
- Chapter: The Witnesses’ Map of Purgatory
- Question: Is Purgatory a place?
- Question: Do the souls appear to the living? What about “ghosts”?
What the witnesses report on this
- Theme C: Where the souls expiate — a place, the earth, the house, the “ghost”Purgatory as a place, souls serving their Purgatory on earth, haunted houses.
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
- Pietro Di Mauro, 1908, one Mass, confirmed by the register (Sr Emmanuel (Simma) 41–42)
- Another
- 1886, "something like Preconci", about 32 years (Van den Aardweg 131–132)
- What differs
- the name, the year, the length
More from Padre Pio
- MOD-27Padre Pio: a dead novice at the altar; one more night in the flames, "Cruel!" (Sr Emmanuel (Simma)); broken candles and sixty years (Petrisko)
- MOD-28Padre Pio: more souls of the dead than of the living come up the road to the friary
- MOD-29Padre Pio: Padre Pio sees the late Padre Bernardo walk from Our Lady's altar to the sacristy on three nights
- MOD-30Padre Pio: souls on their way to Heaven stop at the friary door to thank him