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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46959	Purgatory prov'd by miracles collected out of Roman-Catholick authors : with some remarkable histories relating to British, English, and Irish saints : with a preface concerning the miracles.	Johnson, Samuel, 1649-1703.	1688 (1688)	Wing J837; ESTC R11404	43,137	48

Dead and the occasion of making of it Certain Revelations which the Saints have had concerning the Souls in Purgatory St. Gregory the Great writes that the Soul of Paschasius appeared to St. German and testified unto him that he was freed from the pains of Purgatory for his Prayers When the same St. Gregory was Abbot of his Monastery a Monk of his called Iustus now dead appeared to another Monk called Copiosus and advertized him that he had been freed from the Torments of Purgatory by thirty Masses which Pretiosus Prefect of the Monastery by the Order of St. Gregory had said for his Soul as is recounted in his Life St. Gregory of Tours writes of a Holy Damzel called Vitaliana that she appeared to St. Martin and told him that she had been in Purgatory for a venial sin which she had committed and that she was delivered by the Prayers of the Saint Peter Damian writes that St. Severin appeared to a Clergy-man and told him that he had been in Purgatory for not having said the Divine Service at due hours and that afterwards God had delivered him and carried him to the company of the blessed St. Bernard writes that St. Malachy freed his Sister from the pains of Purgatory by his Prayers and that the same Sister had appeared unto him begging of him that relief and favour And St. Bernard himself by his Intercession freed another who had suffered a whole Year the pains of Purgatory as William Abbot writes in his Life And St. Rembert Archbishop of Bremes fasting forty days for a Priest called Arnolfus freed him out of Purgatory and the same Arnolfus appeared to him and gave him thanks for it as Surius relates in his Life And St. Thomas of Aquin being at his Prayers a sister of his a religious woman now dead appeared unto him and told him how that she was in Purgatory and afterwards she appeared to him again giving him thanks for the benefit which by the means of his Fasts Prayers and Masses she had received and for the glory which she now had in Heaven Pope Benedict the Eighth being now dead appeared to St. Odilo Abbot of whom we spoke before glorious and beautiful and gave him thanks with profound reverence confessing that by his Prayers and the Prayers of his Religious God had done him the favour to take him out of the prison of Purgatory and to place him in Heaven amongst the Elect. St. Martin raises one from the Dead WIthout the City of Poictiers St. Martin built a poor Monastery for himself and for some of those that followed him Amongst these was one a Catechumen who when St. Martin was upon a time out of the Convent fell sick of such a violent Disease that within a few days it took away his life and he died without being baptized The Saint returned home and found his Monks much afflicted for what had hapned and the Corpse of the dead Man ready to be carried to the Grave He approached near unto him sad and disconsolate looked stedfastly upon him with great feeling and by a particular impulse from God commanded them all to go out of the Chamber and the Doors being shut stretched himself upon the cold Body of the Dead Man and making a servorous Prayer to our Lord besought him to restore him to life and our Lord did so insomuch that those who were without expecting the event entring into the Chamber to their great admiration and astonishment found him alive whom they were about to bury The Catechumen they revived received immediately the Water of Holy Baptism and lived many years and recounted how that his Soul being gone out of the Body was presented before the Tribunal of God and that it was condemned to be in certain obscure and dark places but that presently after it understood by the Angels that St. Martin prayed for it and that the Judge had commanded them to carry it back to the Body and to present it as from him to his Servant St. Martin Of Fishermen that fish up a Soul in a Piece of Ice THe Author of Purgatories Knell relateth from Antoninus of certain Fishermen who drawing their Net to Land found therein a massy piece of Ice whereof they were not a little glad because they knew it would be a welcom Present to Theobald their Bishop who was exceedingly tormented with a burning heat in his Feet Neither were they deceived for it stood him in great stead One day amongst the rest as he was cooling his Gouty Toe he heard a Voice from out of the Ice whereupon he conjures it to tell who or what it was The Voice answers I am a Soul afflicted for my sins in this Ice and unless you say thirty Masses for me thirty whole days together I shall not be delivered Theobald instantly betakes him to his Beads and begins his task Whilest he was at his work there is News brought of an Army approaching to sack the Town The Bishop is driven to give over his Devotion for that time When the Hurly-burly was past he falls to his Bus'ness the second time but with as ill success for then there arose a Civil Commotion in the Town The third time he means to make all sure but see as the Devil would have it the whole City with the Bishop's Palace was all on a light fire his Servants were importunate with him to cast away his Book and to provide for his own safety Do what they could they could not prevail All the Answer they could get is this that though the Town should be burnt to the ground he is resolved not to give over till he had made an end To be short he was as good as his word Would you hear the issue He had no sooner finished but the Ice melted the Soul was delivered and the Fire vanished neither was there any damage at all received If this be not true ask the Fishermen Poor Souls they little thought they had taken such a Booty The Choice of a Soul in Purgatory A Certain Author writes that there was a Soul which had lain 30 Years in Purgatory and at last there came an Angel who did bid the Soul chuse whether it would tarry yet one short Winter's day in Purgatory or that it would return into the World again and there do a marvellous hard Penance to wit for one long hundred Years space should go bare-foot and tread still upon sharp Iron Nails eat nothing else but brown Bread and drink bitter Gall mingled with Vinegar and wear a Cloth of Camel's Hair next the Skin and a Stone under the Head in place of a Pillow This Soul did chuse much rather to do all that same hard Penance on Earth than to tarry one day longer in Purgatory Of the miraculous Efficacy of Alms and Prayers for Souls departed in an Instance of their Extending to the Living when mistakingly applied THe Author of the Defence of Purgatory and of Prayer for the Souls