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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.

[Footnote 1: At Jerusalem it was dawn, in Spain midnight, and in India noonday, while it was sunset in Purgatory]

HAMLET AND THE GHOST.

SHAKESPEARE.

HAMLET. Where wilt thou lead me? Speak, I'll go no further.
GHOST. Mark me.
HAM. I will.
GHOST. My hour is almost come,
When I to sulphurous and tormenting flames
Must render up myself.
HAM. Alas! poor ghost!
GHOST. Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing
To what I shall unfold.
HAM. Speak, I am bound to hear.
GHOST. So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear.
HAM. What?
GHOST. I am thy father's spirit;
Doomed for a certain time to walk the night;
And, for the day, confined to fast in fires,
Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature,
Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid
To tell the secrets of my prison-house,
I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul; freeze thy young blood;
Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres;
Thy knotted and combined locks to part,
And each particular hair to stand on end,
Like quills upon the fretful porcupine;
But this eternal blason must not be
To ears of flesh and blood.

CALDERON'S "PURGATORY OF ST. PATRICK."

In a work of this nature, it is essential to its purpose that the compiler should take cognizance of the many legends, wild and extravagant as some of them are, which have been current at various times and amongst various peoples, on the subject of Purgatory. For they have, indeed, a deep significance, proving how strong a hold this belief in a middle state of souls has taken on the popular mind. They are, in a certain sense, a part of Catholic tradition, and have to do with what is called Catholic instinct. They prove that this dogma of the Church has found a home in the hearts of the people, and become familiar to them, as the tales of childhood whispered around the winter hearth. If it appear now and then, in some such uncouth disguise, as that which we, are about to present to our readers, we see, nevertheless, through it all the truth, or rather the fragments of truth, such as is often found floating about through Europe on the breath of tradition. The curious legend has been turned by Calderon from dross into precious gold. He presents it to us in his "Purgatory of St. Patrick" with a beauty that divests it of much of its native wildness. He presumably drew his materials for the drama from a work, "The Life and Purgatory of St. Patrick," published in Spain in 1627 by Montalvan, a Spanish dramatist. It was translated into French by a Franciscan priest and doctor of theology, Francois Bouillon; as also into Portuguese by Father Manuel Caldeira. When this work was issued Calderon was wish the army in Flanders. He must have seen it, his brilliant imagination at once taking hold of it as the groundwork for a splendid effort of his genius.

We cite here an extract from an introduction by Denis Florence MacCarthy to his translation of Calderon's "Purgatory of St. Patrick." It will be of interest as following the thread of this weird legend: