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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 ...
In The City of God, St. Augustine uses verse 32 to prove that there is a Purgatory after this life because it would be pointless to say, "shall not be forgiven… nor in the coming world," if there were no remission of sins in the coming world. As Lapide notes, "thus a person would speak vainly who said, I will never marry a wife, neither in ...
Purgatory "isn't a place, but a condition of existence" [19] for "those who, after death, exist in a state of purification", who "removes from them the remnants of imperfection". They "are not separated from God but are immersed in the love of Christ", belonging to the Mystical Body of Christ and, by virtue of his mediation and intercession, to ...
The Bosom of Abraham, Romanesque capital from the former Priory of Alspach, Alsace.(Unterlinden Museum, Colmar)The Bosom of Abraham refers to the place of comfort in the biblical Sheol (or Hades in the Greek Septuagint version of the Hebrew scriptures from around 200 BC, and therefore so described in the New Testament) [1] where the righteous dead await Judgment Day.
Pope Benedict has announced that his faithful can once again pay the Catholic Church to ease their way through Purgatory and into the Gates of Heaven.
Hieronymus Bosch's 1500 painting The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things.The four outer discs depict (clockwise from top left) Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell. In Christian eschatology, the Four Last Things (Latin: quattuor novissima) [1] are Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell, the four last stages of the soul in life and the afterlife.
According to mainstream Catholic teachings, purgatory is the process of purification in which the souls of those who die in a state of grace are made ready for Heaven.One common metaphor describes it as a place where the souls of all Christians go directly after death and where each remains until the soul is ready to be admitted to heaven.