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  2. History of purgatory - Wikipedia

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    As such, there was little reason to pray for the dead. Luther wrote in Question No. 211 in his expanded Small Catechism: "We should pray for ourselves and for all other people, even for our enemies, but not for the souls of the dead." Luther, after he stopped believing in purgatory around 1530, [55] openly affirmed the doctrine of soul sleep. [56]

  3. Purgatory - Wikipedia

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    The view of Purgatory can be found in the teaching of the Shammaites: "In the last judgment day there shall be three classes of souls: the righteous shall at once be written down for the life everlasting; the wicked, for Gehenna; but those whose virtues and sins counterbalance one another shall go down to Gehenna and float up and down until ...

  4. Purgatorio - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Buy your way to Heaven! The Catholic Church brings back ...

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    Even salvation! 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. Never mind that Martin Luther ...

  6. Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii - Wikipedia

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    The Tractatus is dedicated to Abbot Hugh of Sartris. The introductory section is composed of six parts, a theological survey of the otherworld, an account of Irish scepticism of Saint Patrick's teaching, an example given by Gilbert of the savagery of the Irish, how Christ revealed Saint Patrick's Purgatory to Patrick, an account of a saintly former prior at the Purgatory, and the rituals ...

  7. Intermediate state (Christianity) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. St Patrick's Purgatory - Wikipedia

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    There is no evidence that the pilgrimage to St. Patrick's Purgatory was ever interrupted for any period of time and, more than fifteen hundred years on, it continues in the present times. [24] Every year the main pilgrimage season begins in late May/early June and ends mid-August, on the 15th, the feast of the Assumption of Mary. It is a three ...

  9. Mom of 2 Describes 'Purgatory' of Not Knowing How Long Her ...

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    There’s this pressure to be super mom and to act like you're fine all the time, and you're not fine all the time. Nobody living like this is fine. I go to bed sad every night, and that's okay to ...