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The Medieval Church · c. 1490–1510; recorded by disciples
Purgation and Purgatory
Catherine of Genoa · 1447–1510
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What it is
Purgatory described not as punishment but as the soul's own joyful burning away of what keeps it from a love it can already see.
Why it lasted
The most humane account of purgatory in Christian literature, from a laywoman who ran a hospital through the plague.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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