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their solemn and authoritative voice
with that of the living, actual present in testimony of the truth of this
great Catholic dogma. The Saints, the Fathers, the Doctors of the

Church in the ages of antiquity, and the prelates and priests of our own
day all speak the same language of undoubting faith, of solemn
conviction regarding Purgatory,--make the same earnest and eloquent
appeal to the faithful on behalf of the dear suffering souls. Even the
heathen nations and tribes of both hemispheres are brought forward as
witnesses to the existence of a middle state in the after life. Nor is
Protestantism itself wanting in this great and overwhelming mass of
evidence, as the reader will perceive that some of its most eminent
divines and secular writers have joined, with no hesitating or faltering
voice, in the grand Credo of the nations and the ages in regard to
Purgatory.
What remains for me to add except the earnest hope that this book may
have the effect it is intended to produce by bringing the faithful
children of the Church to think more and oftener of their departed
brethren who, having passed from the Militant to the Suffering Church,
are forever crying out to the living from their darksome prison--"Have
pity on us, have pity on us, at least you who were our friends, have pity
on us, for the hand of the Lord is heavy upon us!"

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
PART I.
DOCTRINAL AND DEVOTIONAL.
Doctrine of Suarez on Purgatory St. Catherine of Genoa on Purgatory
Extracts from the Fathers on Purgatory Verses from the Imitation
_Thomas à Kempis._ 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 Cardinal Gibbons on
Purgatory Archbishop Hughes on Purgatory Archbishop Lynch on
Purgatory Purgatory Surveyed _Father Binet, S. J._ Father Faber on
Devotion to the Holy Souls Why the Souls in Purgatory are called
"Poor" _Mullcr._ Appeal to all Classes for the Souls in Purgatory _By a
Paulist Father._ The Souls in Purgatory _Rev. F. X. Weninger, S. J._
Popular View of Purgatory _Rev. J. J. Moriarty._ Extracts from
"Catholic Belief" _Very Rev. Faá Di Bruno, D.D._ Purgatory and the
Feast of All Souls _Alban Butkr._
PART II.

ANECDOTES AND INCIDENTS.
The Fruit of a Mass Almanac of the Souls in Purgatory. Faith of a
Pious Lady Almanac of the Souls in Purgatory. Pay what Thou Owest
Ave Maria. VIA CRUCIS Footsteps of Spirits. Strange Incidents
Footsteps of Spirits. True Story of the "_De Profundis_" Ave Maria.
Confidence Rewarded Almanac of the Souls in Purgatory Anecdote of
the "_De Profundis_" Strange Occurrence in a Persian Prison _Life of
St. John the Almoner_. A Swiss Protestant Converted by the Doctrine
of Purgatory Catechism in Examples. The Dead Hand Ave Maria. A
Beautiful Example Almanac of the Souls in Purgatory. How to Pay
One's Debts Almanac of the Souls in Purgatory. Faith Rewarded
Almanac of the Souls in Purgatory. Apparition of a Citizen of Arles
Histoire des Spectres. Countess of Strafford _Vie de Monsgr. de la
Mothe_.
Marquis de Civrac _Une Commune Vendéenne. 183 Gratitude of the
Holy Souls Ave Maria. Strange Incident Ave Maria.
PART III.
HISTORICAL.
Doctrine of Purgatory amongst the Pagan Nations of Antiquity _Rev. A.
A. Lambing_. Devotion to the Dead amongst American Indians
Superstitious Belief amongst American Indians Remembrance, of the
Dead amongst the Egyptians Remembrance of the Dead throughout
Europe _A. T. Sadlier_. Part I. Remembrance of the Dead throughout
Europe _A. T. Sadlier_. Part II. Prayer for the Dead in the Anglo-Saxon
Church _Dr. Lingard_ Singular French Custom _Voix de la Verité_
Devotion to the Holy Souls amongst the Early English _A. T. Sadlier_
Doctrine of Purgatory in the Early Irish Church Walsh Prince
Napoleon's Prayer Helpers of the Holy Souls _Lady G. Fullerton_ The
Mass in Relation to the Dead _O'Brien_ Daniel O'Connell, Funeral
Oration on _Rev. T. N. Burke, O.P._ Indulgence of the Portiuncula
Almanac of the Souls in Purgatory. Catherine of Cardona Almanac of
the Souls in Purgatory. The Emperor Nicholas Praying for his Mother
_Anecdotes Chrétiennes_. Pius VI., Funeral Oration on _Rev. Arthur
O'Leary, O.S.F._ Rev. Arthur O'Leary, O.S.F., Funeral Oration on
_Rev. M. D'Arcy_ De Mortuis. Our Deceased Prelates. Archbishop
Corrigan PART IV.
THOUGHTS OF VARIOUS AUTHORS ON PURGATORY.

Purgatory Cardinal Newman Our Debt to the Dead Cardinal Manning
Purgatory Cardinal Wiseman Reply to some Misstatements about
Purgatory Archbishop Spalding Count de Maistre on Purgatory What
the Saints thought of Purgatory Châteaubriand on Purgatory Mary and
the Faithful Departed _Brother Azarias._ Dr. Johnson on Prayer for the
Dead The Doctrine of Purgatory _Burnett._ Mallock on Purgatory
Boileau-Despréaux and Prayer for the Dead All Saints and All Souls
_Mrs. Sadlier._ Leibnitz on the Mass as a Propitiatory Sacrifice