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The noun "Purgatory" (in Latin purgatorium, a place of cleansing, from the verb purgo, "to clean, cleanse" [6]) appeared perhaps only between 1160 and 1180, [7]: 362 which encouraged speaking of Purgatory as a place. [8] Purgatory pre-dates the specific Catholic tradition of purgatory as a transitional state or condition; it has a history that ...
Le Goff also considered Peter the Lombard (d. 1160), in expounding on the teachings of St. Augustine and Gregory the Great, to have contributed significantly to the birth of purgatory in the sense of a physical place. While the idea of purgatory as a process of cleansing thus dated back to early Christianity, the 12th century was the heyday of ...
Casella died in 1299 or early in the year 1300, since Dante enters Purgatory in 1300. [2] From what is said of him in Purgatorio, Canto II, it appears that he was a friend of Dante, and that he set to music poetry by Dante himself, namely the canzone Amor che ne la mente mi ragiona found in Dante's Convivio and possibly some other short poems ...
The idea of Purgatory as a physical place was "born" in the late 11th century. [19] Medieval Catholic theologians concluded that the purgatorial punishments consisted of material fire. The Catholic Church believes that the living can help those whose purification from their sins is not yet completed not only by praying for them but also by ...
Purgatorio (Italian: [purɡaˈtɔːrjo]; Italian for "Purgatory") is the second part of Dante's Divine Comedy, following the Inferno and preceding the Paradiso.The poem was written in the early 14th century.
This place may be described as a kind of benevolent purgatory with privation but without suffering. Some hadith depict that rather than this place being a middle ground purgatory in between Heaven and Hell, it is actually just the top layer of Hell, the least severe layer. The word is literally translated as "the heights" in English.
The Paradise of Fools is a literary and historical topic and theme found in many Christian works. A traditional train of thought held that it is the place where fools or idiots were sent after death: intellectually incompetent to be held responsible for their deeds, they cannot be punished for them in hell, atone for them in purgatory, or be rewarded for them in heaven. [1]
Eunoe [needs IPA] (Italian: Eunoè; Ancient Greek: Εὐνοη, romanized: Eúnoē) is a feature of Dante's Divine Comedy created by Dante as the fifth river of the dead (taking into consideration that Cocytus was described as a lake rather than a river).