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BROTHER JOHN WAS KEPT FROM THE FACE OF GOD BECAUSE HE HAD NEGLECTED TO PRAY...
Death of St FrancisThere was a good Franciscan, a certain Brother John de Via, who died a holy death in his friary on the Canary Islands. In his last days he had been nursed by Brother Ascension. One...
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THE HANDPRINT OF A HOLY SOUL BURNT IN WOOD AS WITH A RED-HOT IRON
160 years ago this November, the tiny hand of a Holy Soul burnt a door in a convent. The Holy Soul's name was Sister Teresa Gesta. She had been a nun in the community of the Franciscan Tertiaries in...
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THE HARVARD GENIUS WHO TURNED ME INTO AN AGENT FOR THE HOLY SOULS
Friends and acquaintances of mine were close to a comedy writer who died a young man. He was a lapsed Catholic who did not live an exemplary life of virtue. But he was dearly loved by them, and I’ve...
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WHEN THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS AND PADRE PIO'S HEART BECAME THE SAME HEART
When I was writing my book on Padre Pio (which is nearly ready for publication) I discovered that the Saint with whom Padre Pio had a great deal in common was St Margaret Mary. St Margaret Mary was...
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ST MARGARET MARY SAW A NUN ON A BED OF SHARP SPIKES IN PURGATORY
Saint Margaret Mary shared a convent with other nuns, and one nun died in ordinary circumstances, but some time later St Margaret Mary was shown this same nun undergoing purification in Purgatory: she...
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VENERABLE STANISLAUS MET HIS DEATH AFTER HE WAS BURNED BY A DROP OF BURNING...
Poland, 1598. A young Dominican priest by the name of Father Stanislaus Chocosca was a rising star in the Polish Church. Stanislaus was a celebrity preacher and famed for his piety, until such time he...
View ArticleMOTHER ANGELICA'S BEAUTIFUL TALK ON PURGATORY
Last night I reclined on the couch for my Sunday rest. We are in November, so I am posting on the Holy Souls, but because yesterday was the Sabbath, I resisted the temptation to write a post on the...
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THE PIOUS WOMAN LIFTED FROM DEATHBED DEPRESSION BY THE SAME HOLY SOULS SHE...
Cardinal Caesar Baronius (1538 - 1607) recorded the story of a pious woman who had been singularly generous to the Holy Souls. When she was dying, the pious woman was burdened by a deathbed depression...
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BLESSED MARY ANN WAS SHOWN THAT INDULGENCES ARE GOLD, RUBIES, PEARLS AND...
Blessed Mary Ann of Quito (or, "the Lily of Quito") was consumed in an ecstasy one day when it pleased Our Lord to give her a vision of a huge table on which was set heaps of gold, silver, rubies,...
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THE HOLY SOUL WHO TOLD OF A HIDDEN PURSE OF MONEY THAT COULD BE USED FOR...
Flanders, Belgium, 1849. A gentleman farmer by the name of John Wybo ran a successful farm with his wife Eugenie. They were quite well to do, and had servants in their employ, including a devout young...
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CHARITY SHALL COVER A MULTITUDE OF SINS
Sister Paula of Saint Teresa was a Carmelite nun whose ardent passion for releasing the Holy Souls was matched only by the red-hot inferno of Purgatory. So great was her zeal, that Our Lord drew back...
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ST MAGDALEN DE PAZZI MADE 107 COMMUNIONS TO FREE HER BROTHER
Saint Magdalen de Pazzi aged 16St Magdalen de Pazzi was born in Renaissance Florence. Her family - the de Pazzis - were especially wealthy and influential nobles. As a young woman of 16, she was a...
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OF YOUR LOVE, PLEASE PRAY FOR A MAN...
...who is an acquaintance of mine. He is a lapsed Catholic and my hope is that he will return to the Faith and bring many more souls with him. He is a celebrity of some stature and I know him through...
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ST MAGDALEN DE PAZZI SAW LIARS HAVE BOTH FIRE AND FREEZE, TWO OPPOSITES LIKE...
My piece on St. Magdalen de Pazzi (which concerned the time she saw her brother in Purgatory) whetted my appetite for the full account of her tour of Purgatory. St Magdalen was a Florentine Carmelite....
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OF YOUR LOVE, PLEASE PRAY FOR "J"
"J" was a young man who died in regrettable circumstances. He suffered from dire depression and he initiated his own death. But it is believed he repented on the brink of his death. I believe he is a...
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MARY, THE SOUL EVERYONE PRESUMED HAD GONE TO HELL
Blessed Catherine of St Augustine was a French nun. At the tender age of 16 she left France for Québec where she was a nursing sister. In the neighborhood where she lived, there was a woman called Mary...
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The Curé of Ars told a widow that her lapsed husband was saved because he...
France, 1880. A devout lady lost her husband and was in the throes of painful grief. She had loved him very much and said of him, "I had a husband who was kind and affectionate, and who, although...
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PRAYER OF ST GERTRUDE THE GREAT FOR THE HOLY SOULS
Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Most Precious Blood of Thy Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the masses said throughout the world today, for all the holy souls in purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for...
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HAIL HOLY QUEEN OF PURGATORY
Saint Peter Damian Rome, a thousand years ago, in the time of St Peter Damian. T'was the ritual of Romans to do the rounds of the churches and half-finished basilicas on the night before the feast of...
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WELCOME TO DECEMBER, THE MONTH DEDICATED TO THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
"You are weirdly obsessed with the Blessed Virgin Mary! She was a nice person, but she was just like the rest of us! When you stress her importance, you take from Jesus’s importance.” Which of us...
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