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The council made no mention of purgatory as a third place or as containing fire, [15] which are absent also in the declarations by the Councils of Florence (1431–1449) and of Trent (1545–1563). [16] Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI have written that the term does not indicate a place, but a condition of existence. [17] [18]
While the idea of purgatory as a process of cleansing thus dated back to early Christianity, the 12th century was the heyday of medieval otherworld-journey narratives such as the Irish Visio Tnugdali, and of pilgrims' tales about St. Patrick's Purgatory, a cavelike entrance to purgatory on a remote island in Ireland. [44]
In Latin, Hades were translated as Purgatorium after about 1200 AD, [131] but no modern English translations render Hades as Purgatory. Tartarus Only appears in 2 Peter 2:4 in the New Testament; both early and modern Bible translations usually translate Tartarus as "Hell", though a few render it as "Tartarus".
A bridge to Purgatory that a dead soul had to cross. Garden of Eden: A paradise where humans were first created according to Abrahamic religions and resided until cast out for disobeying God. Gog and Magog: Are mentioned in the Bible and the Quran both as tribes and as their land. Heaven
In The City of God, St. Augustine uses verse 32 to prove that there is a Purgatory after this life because it would be pointless to say, "shall not be forgiven… nor in the coming world," if there were no remission of sins in the coming world. As Lapide notes, "thus a person would speak vainly who said, I will never marry a wife, neither in ...
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.
Such prayer came to be restricted to souls in Purgatory, [2] which idea has "ancient roots" and is demonstrated in early Church writings. [3] The Roman Catholic Church offers indulgences for those in purgatory, which evolved out of the earlier practice of canonical remissions. [4] Others, such as Lutherans and Anglicans, affirmed prayer for the ...
This passage was used as an example of the efficacy of monetary indulgences paid to the Catholic Church to free souls from purgatory by some Catholic authors of the period. [24] Luther disagreed with both indulgences and the concept of purgatory, and in his 1530 work Disavowl of Purgatory, he denied that 2 Maccabees was a valid source to cite. [42]