Purgatory: Doctrinal, Historical, and Poetical
by J. Sadlier
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Chapters (172)
- PURGATORY:
- LO! PURGATORY! DOCTRINE BLEST, ENGARLANDED WITH LEGENDS WILD, HISTORIC LORE AND POETRY'S FAIR FLOWERS!
- DEDICATION
- INTRODUCTION
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- PART I.
- DOCTRINAL AND DEVOTIONAL. DOCTRINE OF SUAREZ ON PURGATORY. THE PLACE.
- WHERE PURGATORY IS.
- PAIN OF LOSS AND SENSE.
- THE PAIN OF LOSS.
- THE PAIN OF SENSE.
- ST. CATHARINE OF GENOA ON PURGATORY.
- EXTRACTS FROM THE FATHERS. [1]
- VERSES FROM THE IMITATION.
- ST. AUGUSTINE AND HIS MOTHER, ST. MONICA.
- ST. GERTRUDE AND THE HOLY SOULS.
- ST. JOSEPH'S INTERCESSION FOR THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED.
- ST. FRANCIS DE SALES ON PURGATORY [1]
- CARDINAL GIBBONS ON PURGATORY.
- THE DOCTRINE OF PURGATORY.
- PURGATORY AND WHAT WE OWE TO THE DEAD.
- PURGATORY SURVEYED. [1]
- ON DEVOTION TO THE HOLY SOULS.
- WHY THE SOULS IS PURGATORY ARE CALLED "POOR" SOULS.
- APPEAL TO ALL CLASSES FOR THE SOULS IN PURGATORY.
- THE SOULS IN PURGATORY. [1]
- A POPULAR VIEW OF PURGATORY.
- EXTRACTS FROM "CATHOLIC BELIEF."
- PURGATORY AND THE FEAST OF ALL SOULS.
- PART II
- 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.
- THE DEAD HAND.
- 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. THE DOCTRINE OF PURGATORY, OR A MIDDLE STATE, AMONG THE PAGAN NATIONS OF ANTIQUITY.
- DEVOTION TO THE DEAD AMONGST THE AMERICAN INDIANS OF THE EARLY JESUIT MISSIONS.
- SUPERSTITIOUS BELIEF AMONGST SOME OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS.
- REMEMBRANCE OF THE DEAD AMONGST THE EGYPTIANS.
- PART I.
- REMEMBRANCE OF THE DEAD THROUGHOUT EUROPE. PART II.
- PRAYER FOR THE DEAD IN THE ANGLO-SAXON CHURCH.
- A SINGULAR FRENCH CUSTOM.
- DEVOTION TO THE HOLY SOULS AMONGST THE EARLY ENGLISH.
- DOCTRINE OF PURGATORY IN THE EARLY IRISH CHURCH.
- PRINCE NAPOLEON'S PRAYER.
- THE HELPERS OF THE HOLY SOULS. BY LADY GEORGIANA ILLERTON.
- THE MASS IN RELATION TO THE DEAD.
- FUNERAL ORATION ON DANIEL O'CONNELL.
- THE INDULGENCE OF PORTIUNCULA.
- CATHERINE OF CARDONA.
- THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS PRAYING FOR HIS MOTHER.
- FUNERAL ORATION ON PIUS VI.
- FROM THE FUNERAL ORATION ON THE REV. ARTHUR. O'LEARY, O.S.F.
- DE MORTUIS. OUR DECEASED PRELATES.
- PART IV.
- THOUGHTS OF VARIOUS AUTHORS ON PURGATORY. PURGATORY.
- OUR DEBT TO THE DEAD.
- PURGATORY
- REPLY TO SOME MISSTATEMENTS ABOUT PURGATORY.
- COUNT DE MAISTRE ON PURGATORY.
- WHAT THE SAINTS THOUGHT OF PURGATORY.
- PURGATORY.
- MARY AND THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED.
- VI.
- DR. JOHNSON ON PRAYERS FOR THE DEAD.
- MALLOCK ON PURGATORY. [1]
- BOILEAU-DESPRÉAUX AND PRAYER FOR THE DEAD.
- ALL SAINTS AND ALL SOULS. [1]
- LEIBNITZ [1]
- EXTRACTS FROM "A TROUBLED HEART."
- EUGÉNIE DE GUÉRIN AND HER BROTHER MAURICE.
- PASSAGES FROM THE VIA MEDIA.
- ALL SOULS.
- AN ANGLICAN BISHOP PRAYING FOR THE DEAD.
- THE "PURGATORY" OF DANTE.
- THE MOUTH OF NOVEMBER. [1]
- ALL SOULS' DAY [1]
- CEMETERIES.
- OPINIONS OF VARIOUS PROTESTANTS.
- SOME THOUGHTS FOR NOVEMBER.
- PART V.
- AUTHORSHIP OF THE DIES IRÆ.
- DANTE'S "PURGATORIO."
- HAMLET AND THE GHOST.
- CALDERON'S "PURGATORY OF ST. PATRICK."
- THE BRIG O' DREAD.
- SHELLEY AND THE PURGATORY OF ST. PATRICK.
- ON A GREAT FUNERAL. [1]
- "MORTE D'ARTHUR."
- GUIDO AND HIS BROTHER.
- BERTHOLD IN PURGATORY.
- A LEGEND OF ST. NICHOLAS.
- SOULS IN PURGATORY
- ST. GREGORY RELEASES THE SOUL OF THE EMPEROR TRAJAN
- ST. GREGORY AND THE MONK
- THE LEGEND OF GEOFFROID D'IDEN.
- THE QUEEN OF PURGATORY.
- THE DEAD PRIEST BEFORE THE ALTAR.
- MEMORIALS OF THE BEAD.
- A CHILD'S REQUIESCAT IN PACE.
- THE SOLITARY SOUL.
- THE STORY OF THE FAITHFUL SOUL.
- GENÉRADE, THE FRIEND OF ST. AUGUSTINE.
- ST. THOMAS AQUINAS AND FRIAR ROMANUS.
- THE KEY THAT NEVER TURNS.
- THE BURIAL.
- HYMN FOR THE DEAD.
- THE TWO STUDENTS.
- THE PENANCE OF DON DIEGO RIEZ.
- THE DAY OF ALL SOULS.
- THE MESSAGE OF THE NOVEMBER WIND.
- A LEGEND OF THE TIME OF CHARLEMAGNE.
- THE DEAD MASS.
- THE EVE OF ST. JOHN.
- THE BEQUEST OF A SOUL, IN PURGATORY.
- ALL SOULS.
- THE DEAD.
- A REQUIEM.
- HYMN FOR THE DEAD.
- THE PENANCE OF ROBERT THE DEVIL.
- ALL SOULS' EVE.
- ELEVENTH MONTH, NOVEMBER: THE HOLY SOULS.
- THE MEMORY OF THE DEAD.
- THE HOLY SOULS.
- THE PALMER'S ROSARY.
- A LYKE WAKE DIRGE.
- ALL SOULS' DAY.
- THE SUFFERING SOULS.
- THE VOICES OF THE DEAD.
- THE CONVENT CEMETERY.
- ONE HOUR AFTER DEATH.
- A PRAYER FOR THE DEAD.
- THE DE PROFUNDIS BELL. [1]
- HARRIET M. SKIDMORE.
- NOVEMBER.
- FOR THE SOULS IN PURGATORY.
- ALL SOULS' EVE.
- OUR NEIGHBOR.
- PURGATORY.
- O HOLY CHURCH!
- AN INCIDENT OF THE BATTLE OF BANNOCKBURN.
- PRAY FOE THE MARTYRED DEAD.
- IN WINTER
- OSEMUS.
- FUNERAL HYMN.
- REQUIESCAT IN PACE.
- THE FEAST OF ALL SOULS IS THE COUNTRY.
- REQUIEM ÆTERNAM.
- APPENDIX
- ASSOCIATION OF MASSES AND STATIONS OF THE CROSS FOR THE BELIEF OF THE HOLY SOULS.
- EXTRACTS FROM "THE CATHOLIC REVIEW." [1]
- A REQUIEM FOR THE CARDINAL IN PARIS.
- A DUTY OF NOVEMBER.
- PURGATORIAL ASSOCIATION.
- THE HOLY FACE AND THE SUFFERING SOULS.
- WHEN WILL THEY LEARN ITS SECRET?
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