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Purgatory by Sadlier, Mrs. James, 1820-1903

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* * * * * * * * * * The Pain Of Loss.

The Pain Of Sense. * * * * * * * * * *

St. Catharine Of Genoa On Purgatory. * * * * *

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Extracts From The Fathers. [1]

Verses From The Imitation. Thomas A Kempis.

St. Augustine And His Mother, St. Monica.

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St. Gertrude And The Holy Souls. * * * * * * * * * *

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* * * * * * * * * * St. Joseph's Intercession For The Faithful Departed.

St. Francis De Sales On Purgatory [1] Cardinal Gibbons On Purgatory.

The Doctrine Of Purgatory. Archbishop Hughes. [1]

Archbishop Lynch. * * * * *

* * * * * Purgatory Surveyed. [1] Father Binet, S. J.

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* * * * * On Devotion To The Holy Souls. Father Faber.

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Why The Souls Is Purgatory Are Called "poor" Souls. Father Muller, C.s.s.r. [1]

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Appeal To All Classes For The Souls In Purgatory. By A Paulist Father.

The Souls In Purgatory. [1] Rev. F. H. Weninger, S.j., D.d.

* * * * * * * * * * A Popular View Of Purgatory. Rev. J. J. Moriarty, Ll.d. * * * * *

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* * * * * Extracts From "catholic Belief." Very Rev. Faa Di Bruno. [1]

Purgatory And The Feast Of All Souls. Alban Butler.

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.

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. Historical Historical. By The Rev. A. A Lambing, A.m.

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Remembrance Of The Dead Throughout Europe. Part Ii.

Prayer For The Dead In The Anglo-saxon Church. Dr. Lingard.

A Singular French Custom. Devotion To The Holy Souls Amongst The Early English. Anna T. Sadlier.

Doctrine Of Purgatory In The Early Irish Church. Walsh. [1]

Prince Napoleon's Prayer.

The Helpers Of The Holy Souls. By Lady Georgiana Illerton.

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The Mass In Relation To The Dead. O'brien [1] * * * * *

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Funeral Oration On Daniel O'connell. Rev. Thomas Burke, O. P.

The Indulgence Of Portiuncula.

Catherine Of Cardona.

The Emperor Nicholas Praying For His Mother. Funeral Oration On Pius Vi. Rev. Arthur O'leary, O S F.

* * * * * From The Funeral Oration On The Rev. Arthur. O'leary, O.s.f. Rev. Morgan D'arcy. De Mortuis. Our Deceased Prelates.

Part Iv. Thoughts Of Various Authors On Purgatory. Thoughts Of Various Authors On Purgatory. Purgatory. Cardinal Newman.

Our Debt To The Dead. Cardinal Manning

Purgatory Cardinal Wiseman.

Reply To Some Misstatements About Purgatory. Archbishop Spalding, Of Baltimore. Count De Maistre On Purgatory.

What The Saints Thought Of Purgatory. Purgatory. Chateaubriand.

Mary And The Faithful Departed. By Brother Azarias.

Vii. Dr. Johnson On Prayers For The Dead. * * * * * * * * * *

* * * * * The Doctrine Of Purgatory. Burnett [1] Mallock On Purgatory. [1]

Boileau-despreaux And Prayer For The Dead. All Saints And All Souls. [1] Mrs. J. Sadlier.

Leibnitz [1] On The Mass As A Propitiatory Sacrifice. Extracts From "a Troubled Heart."

* * * * * Eugenie De Guerin And Her Brother Maurice.

Passages From The Via Media.

All Souls. From The French. An Anglican Bishop Praying For The Dead. * * * * *

The "purgatory" Of Dante. Mariotti.

The Mouth Of November. [1] Mary E. Blake (marie).

All Souls' Day [1] Mrs. J. Sadlier.

Cemeteries. Opinions Of Various Protestants.

Some Thoughts For November. * * * * *

Dante's "purgatorio."

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Hamlet And The Ghost. Shakespeare. Calderon's "purgatory Of St. Patrick."

The Brig O' Dread. Sir Walter Scott.

Shelley And The Purgatory Of St. Patrick.

On A Great Funeral. [1] Aubrey De Vere. "morte D'arthur." Tennyson. Guido And His Brother.

Berthold In Purgatory. Collin De Plancy.

A Legend Of St. Nicholas.

"dream Of Gerontius." Cardinal Newman. Souls In Purgatory

St. Gregory Releases The Soul Of The Emperor Trajan Mrs. Jameson.

St. Gregory And The Monk The Legend Of Geoffroid D'iden.

The Queen Of Purgatory. By Frederick William Faber, D. D. The Dead Priest Before The Altar. Rev. A. J. Ryan.

Memorials Of The Bead. R. R. Madden. [1] A Child's Requiescat In Pace. Eliza Allen Starr. The Solitary Soul.

The Story Of The Faithful Soul. Adelaide Anne Procter. Generade, The Friend Of St. Augustine. J. Collin De Plancy.

St. Thomas Aquinas And Friar Romanus.

The Penance Of Don Diego Riez. T. D. Mcgee.

The Day Of All Souls. Eliza Allen Starr.

By Eleanor C. Donnelly. I. Ii. A Legend Of The Time Of Charlemagne. The Dead Mass.

The Eve Of St. John. Sir Walter Scott.

The Bequest Of A Soul, In Purgatory.

All Souls. By Marion Muir. The Dead. Anna T. Sadlier.

A Requiem. Sir Walter Scott.

Hymn For The Dead. The Penance Of Robert The Devil. Collin De Plancy.

All Souls' Eve. Eleventh Month, November: The Holy Souls. Commemoration Of All Souls. Harriet M. Skidmore.

A Lyke Wake Dirge. All Souls' Day. Second Vespers Of All Saints.

The Suffering Souls. By E. M. V. Bulger. The Voices Of The Dead.

The Convent Cemetery. Rev. Abram J. Ryan.

One Hour After Death. Eliza Allen Starr. A Prayer For The Dead. T. D. Mcgee. The De Profundis Bell. [1]

Harriet M. Skidmore. November. Anna. T. Sadlier. For The Souls In Purgatory. Anonymous.

All Souls' Eve. Our Neighbor. Eliza Allen Starr. Purgatory. Old Bells.

O Holy Church! Harriet M. Skidmore. An Incident Of The Battle Of Bannockburn. Sir Walter Scott. * * * * *

Requiem Aeternam. T. D. Mcgee.

Extracts From "the Catholic Review." [1]

A Requiem For The Cardinal In Paris. A Duty Of November. "have Pity On Me, At Least You, My Friends."

Purgatorial Association. A Card From Rev. S. S. Mattingly.

The Holy Face And The Suffering Souls.

When Will They Learn Its Secret? How The Cardinal's Obsequies Impressed A Baptist Spectator.

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PURGATORY:

Doctrinal, Historical and Poetical,

BY

MRS. J. SADLIER

LO! PURGATORY! DOCTRINE BLEST,
ENGARLANDED WITH LEGENDS WILD,
HISTORIC LORE AND POETRY'S FAIR FLOWERS!

_"Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the just wait for me, until thou reward me."_

Ps. CXLI 8.

DEDICATION

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._

R. I. P.

INTRODUCTION

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.

Of all the divine truths which the Catholic Church proposes to her children, assuredly none is more acceptable to the pilgrim race of Adam than that of Purgatory. It is, beyond conception, dear and precious as one of the links that connect the living with the vanished dead, and which keeps them fresh in the memory of those who loved them on earth, and whose dearest joy it is to be able to help them in that shadowy border-land through which, in pain and sorrow, they must journey before entering the Land of Promise, which is the City of God, seated on the everlasting hills.