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  2. Purgatory - Wikipedia

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    In his La naissance du Purgatoire (The Birth of Purgatory), Jacques Le Goff attributes the origin of the idea of a third other-world domain, similar to heaven and hell, called Purgatory, to Paris intellectuals and Cistercian monks at some point in the last three decades of the twelfth century, possibly as early as 1170−1180. [53]

  3. Church of the Gesù - Wikipedia

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    He also painted the canvases on the walls, Defeat of the rebel angels on right, and Angels liberate souls from Purgatory on the left. Other frescoes represent Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory. The angles in the niches of the pilasters were completed by both Silla Longhi and Flaminio Vacca. Saint Francis Xavier Chapel altar

  4. The Last Judgment (Michelangelo) - Wikipedia

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    Where traditional compositions generally contrast an ordered, harmonious heavenly world above with the tumultuous events taking place in the earthly zone below, in Michelangelo's conception the arrangement and posing of the figures across the entire painting give an impression of agitation and excitement, [4] and even in the upper parts there is "a profound disturbance, tension and commotion ...

  5. Four last things - Wikipedia

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    Hieronymus Bosch's 1500 painting The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things.The four outer discs depict (clockwise from top left) Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell. In Christian eschatology, the Four Last Things (Latin: quattuor novissima) [1] are Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell, the four last stages of the soul in life and the afterlife.

  6. Buy your way to Heaven! The Catholic Church brings back ...

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    These days, you can get a deal on anything. Even salvation! Pope Benedict has announced that his faithful can once again pay the Catholic Church to ease their way through Purgatory and into the ...

  7. Doom painting - Wikipedia

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    A "Doom painting" or "Doom" is a traditional English term for a wall-painting of the Last Judgement in a medieval church. This is the moment in Christian eschatology when Christ judges souls to send them to either Heaven or Hell .

  8. The Garden of Earthly Delights - Wikipedia

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    However, Bosch is innovative in that he describes hell not as a fantastical place but as a realistic world containing many elements from day-to-day human life. [43] Gibson compares this "Prince of Hell" to a figure in the 12th-century Irish religious text Vision of Tundale, who feeds on the souls of corrupt and lecherous clergy. [47]

  9. Naraka (Jainism) - Wikipedia

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    The prisoners in hell come to the dreadful place called Santakshana (i.e. cutting), where the cruel punishers tie their hands and feet, and with axes in their hands cut them like wooden planks. And they turn the writhing victims round, and stew them, like living fishes, in an iron caldron filled with their own blood, their limbs covered with ...