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Extracts from "A Troubled Heart" Eugénie de Guerin and her Brother
Maurice Passages from the "Via Media" _Newman._ All Souls _From
the French._ An Anglican Bishop Praying for the Dead "Purgatory" of
Dante _Mariotti._ Month of November _Mary E. Blake._ Litany of the
Departed _Acolytus._ All Souls' Day _Mrs. Sadlier._ Cemeteries
Opinions of Various Protestants Some Thoughts for November
PART V.
LEGENDARY AND POETICAL.
_Dies Iræ_ Authorship of the _Dies Iræ_ Dante's _"Purgatorio"_
Hamlet and the Ghost _Shakespeare._ Calderon's "Purgatory of St.
Patrick" The Brig o' Dread _Scott._ Shelley and the Purgatory of St.
Patrick On a Great Funeral _Aubrey de Vere._ _Morte d'Arthur_
_Tennyson._ Guido and his Brother _Collin de Plancy._ Berthold in
Purgatory _Collin de Plancy._ Legend of St. Nicholas _Collin de
Planey._ Dream of Gerontius _Newman. St. Gregory_ Releases the
Soul of Trajan _Mrs. Jameson._ St. Gregory and the Monk Legend of
Geoffroid d'lden The Queen of Purgatory Faber. The Dead Priest
before the Altar _Rev. A. J. Ryan_. Memorials of the Dead _R. R.
Madden_. A Child's "_Requiescat in Pace_" Eliza Allen Starr. The
Solitary Soul Ave Maria. Story of the Faithful Soul Adelaide Procter.
Genérade, the Friend of St. Augustine De Plancy St. Thomas Aquinas
and Friar Romanus De Plancy. The Key that Never Turns _Eleanor C.
Donnelly_. A Burial Thomas Davis. Hymn for the Dead Newman. The
Two Students De Plancy. The Penance of Don Diego Riaz McGee. The
Day of All Souls Eliza Allen Starr. Message of the November Wind
_Eleanor C. Donnelly_. Legend of the Time of Charlemagne The Dead
Mass The Eve of St. John Sir Walter Scott. Request of a Soul in
Purgatory All Souls' Marion Muir. The Dead Octave Cremasie A
REQUIEM Sir Walter Scott. Penance of Robert the Devil De Plancy.

All Souls' Eve Commemoration of All Souls _Harriet M. Skidmore_.
The Memory of the Dead Faber. The Holy Souls. Author of "Christian
Schools and Scholars." The Palmer's Rosary Eliza Allen Starr. A Lyke
Wake Dirge. All Souls' Day Lyra Liturgica. The Suffering Souls. _E.
M. V. Bulger._ "The Voices of the Dead." _M. R. in "The Lamp."_ The
Convent Cemetery. _Rev. A. J. Ryan._ One Hour after Death. _Eliza
Allen Starr._ A Prayer for the Dead. _T. D. McGee._ The _De
Profundis Bell._ _Harriet M. Skidmore._ November. _Anna T.
Sadlier._ For the Souls in Purgatory. All Souls' Eve. Our Neighbor.
_Eliza Allen Starr._ Old Bells. O Holy Church. _Harriet M.
Skidmore._ An Incident of the Battle of Bannockburn. _Sir Walter
Scott._ Pray for the Martyred Dead. In Winter. _Eliza Allen Starr._
_Oremus._ _Mary E. Mannix._ Funeral Hymn. _A. T. Sadlier._ _Chant
Funèbre._ _Nisard._ _Requiescat in Pace._ _Harriet M. Skidmore._
The Feast of All Souls in the Country. _Anna T. Sadlier._ _Requiem
Æternum_ _T. D. McGee._
APPENDIX.
Association of Masses and Stations of the Cross. Extracts from The
Catholic Review of New York. A Duty of November. _The Texas
Monitor._ Purgatorial Association. _Catholic Columbian._ The Holy
Face and the Suffering Souls. When will they Learn its Secret? _Baptist
Examiner._

PART I.
DOCTRINAL AND DEVOTIONAL.
"But now, brethren, if I come to you, speaking with tongues: what shall
I profit you, unless I speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge,
or in prophecy, or in doctrine?"
--ST. PAUL, I. COR. PURGATORY:
DOCTRINAL AND DEVOTIONAL.
DOCTRINE OF SUAREZ ON PURGATORY.
THE PLACE.
It is a certain truth of faith that after this life there is a place of
Purgatory. Though the name of Purgatory may not be found in Holy
Scripture, that does not matter, if we can show that the thing meant by
the name can be found there; for often the Church, either because of
new heresies, or that the doctrine of the faith may be set forth more

clearly and shortly, gives new and simple names, in which the
mysteries of the faith are summed up. This is evident in the cases of the
Holy Trinity, the Incarnation, and the Holy Eucharist.
The doctrine of Purgatory is proved by:--the Old Testament, the New
Testament, the Councils of the Church, especially those of Florence
and of Trent, the Fathers and Tradition, and by theological reasons.
WHERE PURGATORY IS.
Nothing is said in Holy Scripture about this place, nor is there any
definition of the Church concerning it. The subject, therefore, comes
within the range of theological discussion. Theologians, however,
suppose Purgatory to be a certain corporeal place, in which souls are
kept till they pay fully the debt which they owe. It is true that they do
not in themselves need a corporeal place, since they are spirits; but yet,
as they are in this world, they must, of necessity, be in some corporeal
place--at any rate, with regard to substantial presence. Thus we see that
God, in His providence, has made definite places for the Angels,