Purgatory: Doctrinal, Historical, and Poetical
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Doctrinal, Historical and Poetical,
Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the just wait for me, until thou reward me.
Ps. CXLI 8.
TO THE GRACIOUS MEMORY OF MY DEARLY-BELOVED SON, REV. FRANCIS X. SADLIER, S.J. WHOSE TENDER DEVOTION TO THE Souls in Purgatory LED HIM TO TAKE A DEEP AND ACTIVE INTEREST IN THE PROGRESS OF THIS WORK, BUT WHO WAS NOT PERMITTED TO SEE ITS COMPLETION, BEING CALLED HENCE, SCARCELY THREE MONTHS AFTER HIS ORDINATION, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MONTH CONSECRATED TO THOSE Holy Souls, November 14th, 1885.
I have written many books and translated many more on a great variety of subjects, nearly all of which, I thank God now with all my heart, were more or less religious, at least in their tendency; but the circle of these my life-long labors seems to me incomplete. One link is wanting to the chain, and that is a work specially devoted to the souls in Purgatory. This omission I am anxious to supply while the working days of my life are still with me, for, a few more years, at most, and for me the night cometh when no man can work.
As we advance into the vale of years and journey on the downward slope, we are happily drawn more and more towards the eternal truths of the great untried world beyond the grave. Foremost amongst these stands out more and still more clearly, in all its awful reality, the dread but consoling doctrine of Purgatory. When we have seen many of our best beloved relatives, many of our dearest and most devoted friends—those who started with us in the freshness of morning on the road of life, which then lay so deceitfully fair and bright before them and us—they who shared our early hopes and aspirations, and whose words and smiles were the best encouragement of our feeble efforts—when we have seen them sink, one by one, into the darkness of the grave, leaving the earth more bleak and dreary year by year for those who remain—then do we naturally follow them in spirit to those gloomy regions where one or all may be undergoing that blessed purification which prepares them for the eternal repose of Heaven.
Mrs. J. Sadlier
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PURGATORY:
DEDICATION
INTRODUCTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
PART I.
ANECDOTES AND INCIDENTS.
PART III.
PART IV.
PART V.
PART I.
WHERE PURGATORY IS.
PAIN OF LOSS AND SENSE.
THE PAIN OF LOSS.
THE PAIN OF SENSE.
ST. CATHARINE OF GENOA ON PURGATORY.
EXTRACTS FROM THE FATHERS. [1]
VERSES FROM THE IMITATION.
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 [1]
CARDINAL GIBBONS ON PURGATORY.
THE DOCTRINE OF PURGATORY.
PURGATORY AND WHAT WE OWE TO THE DEAD.
PURGATORY SURVEYED. [1]
ON DEVOTION TO THE HOLY SOULS.
WHY THE SOULS IS PURGATORY ARE CALLED "POOR" SOULS.
APPEAL TO ALL CLASSES FOR THE SOULS IN PURGATORY.
THE SOULS IN PURGATORY. [1]
A POPULAR VIEW OF PURGATORY.
EXTRACTS FROM "CATHOLIC BELIEF."
PURGATORY AND THE FEAST OF ALL SOULS.
PART II
ANECDOTES AND INCIDENTS.
THE FRUIT OF A MASS.
THE FAITH OF A PIOUS LADY.
PAY WHAT THOU OWEST.
THE VIA CRUCIS
STRANGE INCIDENTS.
A TRUE STORY OF THE "DE PROFUNDIS."
CONFIDENCE REWARDED.
ANECDOTE OF THE "DE PROFUNDIS."
A STRANGE OCCURRENCE IN A PERSIAN PRISON.
A SWISS PROTESTANT CONVERTED BY THE DOCTRINE OF PURGATORY.
THE DEAD HAND.
A BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE.
HOW TO PAY ONE'S DEBTS.
FAITH REWARDED.
APPARITION OF A CITIZEN OF ARIES.
THE COUNTESS OF STRAFFORD.
GRATITUDE OF THE HOLY SOULS.
A STRANGE INCIDENT.
PART III.
DEVOTION TO THE DEAD AMONGST THE AMERICAN INDIANS OF THE EARLY JESUIT MISSIONS.
SUPERSTITIOUS BELIEF AMONGST SOME OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS.
REMEMBRANCE OF THE DEAD AMONGST THE EGYPTIANS.
PART I.
PRAYER FOR THE DEAD IN THE ANGLO-SAXON CHURCH.
A SINGULAR FRENCH CUSTOM.
DEVOTION TO THE HOLY SOULS AMONGST THE EARLY ENGLISH.
DOCTRINE OF PURGATORY IN THE EARLY IRISH CHURCH.
PRINCE NAPOLEON'S PRAYER.
THE HELPERS OF THE HOLY SOULS. BY LADY GEORGIANA ILLERTON.
THE MASS IN RELATION TO THE DEAD.
FUNERAL ORATION ON DANIEL O'CONNELL.
THE INDULGENCE OF PORTIUNCULA.
CATHERINE OF CARDONA.
THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS PRAYING FOR HIS MOTHER.
FUNERAL ORATION ON PIUS VI.
FROM THE FUNERAL ORATION ON THE REV. ARTHUR. O'LEARY, O.S.F.
DE MORTUIS. OUR DECEASED PRELATES.
PART IV.
PURGATORY.
OUR DEBT TO THE DEAD.
PURGATORY
REPLY TO SOME MISSTATEMENTS ABOUT PURGATORY.
COUNT DE MAISTRE ON PURGATORY.
WHAT THE SAINTS THOUGHT OF PURGATORY.
PURGATORY.
MARY AND THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED.
VI.
DR. JOHNSON ON PRAYERS FOR THE DEAD.
THE DOCTRINE OF PURGATORY.
MALLOCK ON PURGATORY. [1]
BOILEAU-DESPRÉAUX AND PRAYER FOR THE DEAD.
ALL SAINTS AND ALL SOULS. [1]
LEIBNITZ [1]
EXTRACTS FROM "A TROUBLED HEART."
EUGÉNIE DE GUÉRIN AND HER BROTHER MAURICE.
PASSAGES FROM THE VIA MEDIA.
ALL SOULS.
AN ANGLICAN BISHOP PRAYING FOR THE DEAD.
THE "PURGATORY" OF DANTE.
THE MOUTH OF NOVEMBER. [1]
ALL SOULS' DAY [1]
CEMETERIES.
OPINIONS OF VARIOUS PROTESTANTS.
SOME THOUGHTS FOR NOVEMBER.
PART V.
AUTHORSHIP OF THE DIES IRÆ.
DANTE'S "PURGATORIO."
HAMLET AND THE GHOST.
CALDERON'S "PURGATORY OF ST. PATRICK."
THE BRIG O' DREAD.
SHELLEY AND THE PURGATORY OF ST. PATRICK.
ON A GREAT FUNERAL. [1]
"MORTE D'ARTHUR."
GUIDO AND HIS BROTHER.
BERTHOLD IN PURGATORY.
A LEGEND OF ST. NICHOLAS.
SOULS IN PURGATORY
ST. GREGORY RELEASES THE SOUL OF THE EMPEROR TRAJAN
ST. GREGORY AND THE MONK
THE LEGEND OF GEOFFROID D'IDEN.
THE QUEEN OF PURGATORY.
THE DEAD PRIEST BEFORE THE ALTAR.
MEMORIALS OF THE BEAD.
A CHILD'S REQUIESCAT IN PACE.
THE SOLITARY SOUL.
THE STORY OF THE FAITHFUL SOUL.
GENÉRADE, THE FRIEND OF ST. AUGUSTINE.
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS AND FRIAR ROMANUS.
THE KEY THAT NEVER TURNS.
THE BURIAL.
HYMN FOR THE DEAD.
THE TWO STUDENTS.
THE PENANCE OF DON DIEGO RIEZ.
THE DAY OF ALL SOULS.
THE MESSAGE OF THE NOVEMBER WIND.
A LEGEND OF THE TIME OF CHARLEMAGNE.
THE DEAD MASS.
THE EVE OF ST. JOHN.
THE BEQUEST OF A SOUL, IN PURGATORY.
ALL SOULS.
THE DEAD.
A REQUIEM.
HYMN FOR THE DEAD.
THE PENANCE OF ROBERT THE DEVIL.
ALL SOULS' EVE.
ELEVENTH MONTH, NOVEMBER: THE HOLY SOULS.
HARRIET M. SKIDMORE.
THE MEMORY OF THE DEAD.
THE HOLY SOULS.
THE PALMER'S ROSARY.
A LYKE WAKE DIRGE.
ALL SOULS' DAY.
THE SUFFERING SOULS.
THE VOICES OF THE DEAD.
THE CONVENT CEMETERY.
ONE HOUR AFTER DEATH.
A PRAYER FOR THE DEAD.
THE DE PROFUNDIS BELL. [1]
HARRIET M. SKIDMORE.
NOVEMBER.
FOR THE SOULS IN PURGATORY.
ALL SOULS' EVE.
OUR NEIGHBOR.
PURGATORY.
O HOLY CHURCH!
HARRIET M. SKIDMORE.
AN INCIDENT OF THE BATTLE OF BANNOCKBURN.
PRAY FOE THE MARTYRED DEAD.
IN WINTER
OSEMUS.
FUNERAL HYMN.
REQUIESCAT IN PACE.
THE FEAST OF ALL SOULS IS THE COUNTRY.
REQUIEM ÆTERNAM.
APPENDIX
ASSOCIATION OF MASSES AND STATIONS OF THE CROSS FOR THE BELIEF OF THE HOLY SOULS.
EXTRACTS FROM "THE CATHOLIC REVIEW." [1]
A REQUIEM FOR THE CARDINAL IN PARIS.
A DUTY OF NOVEMBER.
PURGATORIAL ASSOCIATION.
THE HOLY FACE AND THE SUFFERING SOULS.
WHEN WILL THEY LEARN ITS SECRET?