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While scholars have thus far not provided a history of the Anima Sola (or Ánimas del purgatorio in Spanish), [citation needed] the practice of praying for the souls in purgatory extends at least as far back as the Council of Trent in which the following was determined:
The change happened at about the same time as the composition of the book Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii, an account by an English Cistercian of a penitent knight's visit to the land of Purgatory reached through a cave in the island known as Station Island or St Patrick's Purgatory in the lake of Lough Derg, County Donegal, Ireland. Le ...
Pia de' Tolomei (La Pia) in a painting by Stefano Ussi, Canto V. Dante and Virgil meet Sordello, in a sculpture by Cesare Zocchi, Canto VII. The Late-Repentant include (1) those too lazy or too preoccupied to repent (the Indolent), (2) those who repented at the last minute without formally receiving last rites , as a result of violent deaths ...
It is thought to have been rat-sized (6 in (15 cm) long and 1.3 ounces (about 37 grams)) and a diurnal insectivore, which burrowed through small holes in the ground. In life, it would have resembled a squirrel or a tree shrew (most likely the latter, given that tree shrews are one of the closest living relatives of primates, and Purgatorius is ...