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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 Chateaubriand 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 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._