Purgatory: Doctrinal, Historical, and Poetical

PART I.. Doctrinal and Devotional.

DOCTRINAL AND DEVOTIONAL.

Doctrine of Suarez on Purgatory St. Catherine of Genoa on Purgatory Extracts from the Fathers on Purgatory Verses from the Imitation Thomas à Kempis. St. Augustine and his Mother, St. Monica St. Gertrude and the Holy Souls St. Joseph's Intercession for the Faithful Departed St. Francis de Sales on Purgatory Cardinal Gibbons on Purgatory Archbishop Hughes on Purgatory Archbishop Lynch on Purgatory Purgatory Surveyed Father Binet, S. J. Father Faber on Devotion to the Holy Souls Why the Souls in Purgatory are called "Poor" Mullcr. Appeal to all Classes for the Souls in Purgatory By a Paulist Father. The Souls in Purgatory Rev. F. X. Weninger, S. J. Popular View of Purgatory Rev. J. J. Moriarty. Extracts from "Catholic Belief" Very Rev. Faá Di Bruno, D.D. Purgatory and the Feast of All Souls Alban Butkr.

PART II.. Anecdotes and Incidents.

ANECDOTES AND INCIDENTS.

The Fruit of a Mass Almanac of the Souls in Purgatory. Faith of a Pious Lady Almanac of the Souls in Purgatory. Pay what Thou Owest Ave Maria. VIA CRUCIS Footsteps of Spirits. Strange Incidents Footsteps of Spirits. True Story of the "De Profundis" Ave Maria. Confidence Rewarded Almanac of the Souls in Purgatory Anecdote of the "De Profundis" Strange Occurrence in a Persian Prison Life of St. John the Almoner. A Swiss Protestant Converted by the Doctrine of Purgatory Catechism in Examples. The Dead Hand Ave Maria. A Beautiful Example Almanac of the Souls in Purgatory. How to Pay One's Debts Almanac of the Souls in Purgatory. Faith Rewarded Almanac of the Souls in Purgatory. Apparition of a Citizen of Arles Histoire des Spectres. Countess of Strafford Vie de Monsgr. de la Mothe.

Marquis de Civrac Une Commune Vendéenne. 183 Gratitude of the Holy Souls Ave Maria. Strange Incident Ave Maria_.

PART III.. Historical.

HISTORICAL.

Doctrine of Purgatory amongst the Pagan Nations of Antiquity Rev. A. A. Lambing. Devotion to the Dead amongst American Indians Superstitious Belief amongst American Indians Remembrance, of the Dead amongst the Egyptians Remembrance of the Dead throughout Europe A. T. Sadlier. Part I. Remembrance of the Dead throughout Europe A. T. Sadlier. Part II. Prayer for the Dead in the Anglo-Saxon Church Dr. Lingard Singular French Custom Voix de la Verité Devotion to the Holy Souls amongst the Early English A. T. Sadlier Doctrine of Purgatory in the Early Irish Church Walsh Prince Napoleon's Prayer Helpers of the Holy Souls Lady G. Fullerton The Mass in Relation to the Dead O'Brien Daniel O'Connell, Funeral Oration on Rev. T. N. Burke, O.P. Indulgence of the Portiuncula Almanac of the Souls in Purgatory. Catherine of Cardona Almanac of the Souls in Purgatory. The Emperor Nicholas Praying for his Mother Anecdotes Chrétiennes. Pius VI., Funeral Oration on Rev. Arthur O'Leary, O.S.F. Rev. Arthur O'Leary, O.S.F., Funeral Oration on Rev. M. D'Arcy De Mortuis. Our Deceased Prelates. Archbishop Corrigan

PART IV.. Thoughts of Various Authors on Purgatory.

THOUGHTS OF VARIOUS AUTHORS ON PURGATORY.

Purgatory Cardinal Newman Our Debt to the Dead Cardinal Manning Purgatory Cardinal Wiseman Reply to some Misstatements about Purgatory Archbishop Spalding Count de Maistre on Purgatory What the Saints thought of Purgatory Châteaubriand on Purgatory Mary and the Faithful Departed Brother Azarias. Dr. Johnson on Prayer for the Dead The Doctrine of Purgatory Burnett. Mallock on Purgatory Boileau-Despréaux and Prayer for the Dead All Saints and All Souls Mrs. Sadlier. Leibnitz on the Mass as a Propitiatory Sacrifice Extracts from "A Troubled Heart" Eugénie de Guerin and her Brother Maurice Passages from the "Via Media" Newman. All Souls From the French. An Anglican Bishop Praying for the Dead "Purgatory" of Dante Mariotti. Month of November Mary E. Blake. Litany of the Departed Acolytus. All Souls' Day Mrs. Sadlier. Cemeteries Opinions of Various Protestants Some Thoughts for November

PART V.. Legendary and Poetical.

LEGENDARY AND POETICAL.

Dies Iræ Authorship of the Dies Iræ Dante's "Purgatorio" Hamlet and the Ghost Shakespeare. Calderon's "Purgatory of St. Patrick" The Brig o' Dread Scott. Shelley and the Purgatory of St. Patrick On a Great Funeral Aubrey de Vere. Morte d'Arthur Tennyson. Guido and his Brother Collin de Plancy. Berthold in Purgatory Collin de Plancy. Legend of St. Nicholas Collin de Planey. Dream of Gerontius Newman. St. Gregory Releases the Soul of Trajan Mrs. Jameson. St. Gregory and the Monk Legend of Geoffroid d'lden The Queen of Purgatory Faber. The Dead Priest before the Altar Rev. A. J. Ryan. Memorials of the Dead R. R. Madden. A Child's "Requiescat in Pace" Eliza Allen Starr. The Solitary Soul Ave Maria. Story of the Faithful Soul Adelaide Procter. Genérade, the Friend of St. Augustine De Plancy St. Thomas Aquinas and Friar Romanus De Plancy. The Key that Never Turns Eleanor C. Donnelly. A Burial Thomas Davis. Hymn for the Dead Newman. The Two Students De Plancy. The Penance of Don Diego Riaz McGee. The Day of All Souls Eliza Allen Starr. Message of the November Wind Eleanor C. Donnelly. Legend of the Time of Charlemagne The Dead Mass The Eve of St. John Sir Walter Scott. Request of a Soul in Purgatory All Souls' Marion Muir. The Dead Octave Cremasie A REQUIEM Sir Walter Scott. Penance of Robert the Devil De Plancy. All Souls' Eve Commemoration of All Souls Harriet M. Skidmore. The Memory of the Dead Faber. The Holy Souls. Author of "Christian Schools and Scholars." The Palmer's Rosary Eliza Allen Starr. A Lyke Wake Dirge. All Souls' Day Lyra Liturgica. The Suffering Souls. E. M. V. Bulger. "The Voices of the Dead." M. R. in "The Lamp." The Convent Cemetery. Rev. A. J. Ryan. One Hour after Death. Eliza Allen Starr. A Prayer for the Dead. T. D. McGee. The De Profundis Bell. Harriet M. Skidmore. November. Anna T. Sadlier. For the Souls in Purgatory. All Souls' Eve. Our Neighbor. Eliza Allen Starr. Old Bells. O Holy Church. Harriet M. Skidmore. An Incident of the Battle of Bannockburn. Sir Walter Scott. Pray for the Martyred Dead. In Winter. Eliza Allen Starr. Oremus. Mary E. Mannix. Funeral Hymn. A. T. Sadlier. Chant Funèbre. Nisard. Requiescat in Pace. Harriet M. Skidmore. The Feast of All Souls in the Country. Anna T. Sadlier. Requiem Æternum T. D. McGee.

APPENDIX.

Association of Masses and Stations of the Cross. Extracts from The Catholic Review of New York. A Duty of November. The Texas Monitor. Purgatorial Association. Catholic Columbian. The Holy Face and the Suffering Souls. When will they Learn its Secret? Baptist Examiner.

PART I.. Doctrinal and Devotional.

DOCTRINAL AND DEVOTIONAL.

"But now, brethren, if I come to you, speaking with tongues: what shall I profit you, unless I speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophecy, or in doctrine?"

--ST. PAUL, I. COR. PURGATORY:

DOCTRINAL AND DEVOTIONAL.

DOCTRINE OF SUAREZ ON PURGATORY.

THE PLACE.

It is a certain truth of faith that after this life there is a place of Purgatory. Though the name of Purgatory may not be found in Holy Scripture, that does not matter, if we can show that the thing meant by the name can be found there; for often the Church, either because of new heresies, or that the doctrine of the faith may be set forth more clearly and shortly, gives new and simple names, in which the mysteries of the faith are summed up. This is evident in the cases of the Holy Trinity, the Incarnation, and the Holy Eucharist.

The doctrine of Purgatory is proved by:--the Old Testament, the New Testament, the Councils of the Church, especially those of Florence and of Trent, the Fathers and Tradition, and by theological reasons.

WHERE PURGATORY IS.

Nothing is said in Holy Scripture about this place, nor is there any definition of the Church concerning it. The subject, therefore, comes within the range of theological discussion. Theologians, however, suppose Purgatory to be a certain corporeal place, in which souls are kept till they pay fully the debt which they owe. It is true that they do not in themselves need a corporeal place, since they are spirits; but yet, as they are in this world, they must, of necessity, be in some corporeal place--at any rate, with regard to substantial presence. Thus we see that God, in His providence, has made definite places for the Angels, according to the difference of their states. Gehenna is prepared for the devil and his angels, whereas the empyreal Heaven is made for the good angels. In this way, it is certain that the souls, paying their debt, are kept in a corporeal place. This place is not heaven, for nothing that is defiled enters there; nor is it hell, for in hell there is no redemption, and from that place no souls can be saved.

PAIN OF LOSS AND SENSE.

The pain of loss is the want of the vision of God and of the whole of our everlasting beatitude. The pain of sense is the suffering of punishment specially inflicted over and above the loss of the beatitude of Heaven.

We must assert that the souls in Purgatory suffer the pain of loss, tempered by hope, and not like the souls in hell, which have no hope.

In the pain of sense we can distinguish two things. There is the sorrow which follows closely the want or delay of the vision of God, and has that for its object. There is also another pain, as it were outward, and this is proportioned to the sensible pain which is caused in us by fire, or any like action, contrary to nature and hurtful to it. That in Purgatory this sorrow does follow the loss of God is most certain; for that loss, or delay, is truly a great evil, and is most keenly felt to be such by those souls that with all their strength love God and long to see Him. Therefore, it is impossible for them not to feel the greatest sorrow about that delay.

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