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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: Conf. B. IX. Chs. XI.-XIII.]

ST. GERTRUDE AND THE HOLY SOULS.

[In the "Life and Revelations of St. Gertrude" we find many instances of the efficacy of prayers for the dead and how pleasing to God is devotion to the souls in Purgatory. From these we select the following.]

Our Blessed Lord once said to the Saint: "If a soul is delivered by prayer from Purgatory I accept it as if I had myself been delivered from captivity, and I will assuredly reward it according to the abundance of my mercy." The religious also beheld many souls meeting before her to testify their gratitude for their deliverance from Purgatory, through the prayers which had been offered for her, and which she had not needed.

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As St. Gertrude prayed fervently before matins on the blessed night of the Resurrection, the Lord Jesus appeared to her full of majesty and glory. Then she cast herself at His feet, to adore Him devoutly and humbly, saying: "O glorious Spouse, joy of the angels, Thou who hast shown me the favor of choosing me to be Thy spouse, who am the least of Thy creatures! I ardently desire Thy glory, and my only friends are those who love Thee; therefore I beseech Thee to pardon the souls of Thy special friends [1] by the virtue of Thy most glorious Resurrection. And to obtain this grace from Thy goodness, I offer Thee, in union with Thy Passion, all the sufferings which my continual infirmities have caused me." Then Our Lord, having favored her with many caresses, showed her a great multitude of souls who were freed from their pains, saying: "Behold, I have given them to you as a recompense for your rare affection; and through all eternity they will acknowledge that they have been delivered by your prayers, and you will be honored and glorified for it." She replied: "How many are they?" He answered: "This knowledge belongs to God alone."

As she feared that these souls, though freed from their pains, were not yet admitted to glory, she offered to endure whatever God might please, either in body or soul, to obtain their entrance into that beatitude; and Our Lord, won by her fervor, granted her request immediately.

[Footnote 1: "This seems to refer," says the author of the Saint's life, "to the souls in Purgatory."]

Some time after, as the Saint suffered most acute pain in her side, she made an inclination before a crucifix; and Our Lord freed her from the pain, and granted the merit of it to these souls, recommending them to make her a return by their prayers.

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