VIS-12Private revelationAccount·The Portuguese visionary·T4 (unapproved) — visions and the collections that retell them
An apparition tested by the sign of the cross and "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, I love you"; a soul forgotten by his family allowed to show himself to be consoled
How it happened
- Apparitions — Form not describedThe soul is seen
What the soul wanted
- Asks for prayer or other helpRosary, Stations, Office, Communion, fasting, obedience, pilgrimage, indulgences
Evidence
- A test was passedSign of the cross, holy water, a set prayer, obedience
Further reading
Read it in the books
| Book | Pages |
|---|---|
| Visions of PurgatoryVisions of Purgatory (Regard sur le Purgatoire) — An anonymous Portuguese layman, 1990s; English ed. Scepter | p. 107 |
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: The Church’s Definitions
- Question: How should I weigh private revelations about Purgatory?
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 J: Discernment — soul, demon, or imaginationHow witnesses and clergy tested apparitions, and what the Church leaves free.
About the witness
The Portuguese Visions of Purgatory1990s · T4 (unapproved) — visions and the collections that retell them
More from The Portuguese visionary
- VIS-01The Portuguese visionary: Watching an adolescent die: he hears no sentence; the soul, seeing its sins in God's holiness, withdraws to …
- VIS-02The Portuguese visionary: The angel: the particular judgement takes place at the very place of death; St Michael attends every judgement; …
- VIS-03The Portuguese visionary: Millions enter eternity and only one small child goes straight to Heaven; canonised saints have passed through Purgatory
- VIS-04The Portuguese visionary: The grades: the great Purgatory (a silent, immobile fire, "equal to hell except in the duration", holding priests, …
- VIS-05The Portuguese visionary: Bodily after-effects of a vision: reddened, burning skin and cracked lips
- VIS-06The Portuguese visionary: Purgatory "in the center of the earth" (which he takes as a symbol), with a dark red cross above it; a prison …
- VIS-07The Portuguese visionary: A young father's soul must be almost constantly in a church near or beneath the altar; he prays for his friends, …
- VIS-08The Portuguese visionary: A dead relative: "I was saved because I was good"; he suffers for wasted time; "Do not weep! … The smallest prayer …
- VIS-09The Portuguese visionary: A soul: never scrutinise God's justice; only a beatified soul is certainly in Heaven
- VIS-10The Portuguese visionary: An elderly nun: no one prays for her because she died with a reputation for holiness; "Pain is our joy in purgatory"