Catherine (1447-1510), a married lay woman, was a mystic and a humanitarian, and a constant contemplative who cared for the sick and destitute. Purgation and Purgatory is a collection of sayings on spiritual purification in this life and the next. The Spiritual Dialogue gives us a readable and coherent inner history of Catherine.
Catherine of Genoa: Purgation and Purgatory, the Spiritual Dialogue
The truth about Purgatory . . . revealed more than 500 years ago to a saint! Tainted by neither superstition nor skepticism, St. Catherine of Genoa's vision of Purgatory can help readers face the sorrows of life with faith and courage.
In Gaul, councils stipulated that slaves could not be ordained without being first freed, a recognition perhaps of status ... The father of 41 42 one five-year-old who blasphemed failed to take harsh action against 48 HEAVEN'S PURGE.
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Christina Gallagher's account of Purgatory is from the author's book , The Sorrow , the Sacrifice and the Triumph , The Apparitions , Visions and Prophecies of Christina Gallagher ( Simon and Schuster ) . The accounts of 84 Inside ...
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Rather than anticipating a time of future purgation, the joyful expectation of every Christian is that, at the moment of death, to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.
She and her husband worked in a hospital in Genoa, of which she later became director. This volume contains three separate works: The Life and Doctrine of St. Catherine of Genoa, the Spiritual Dialogue and the Treatise on Purgatory.
This book traces purgatory's roots in the texts and debates of late antiquity.
"Catholic applogist Karlo Broussard definitively tackles this most misunderstood teaching, giving you the evidence and arguments to see (and explain to others) that purgatory is neither contrary to Scripture nor some fantastical dogma that ...