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POETICAL.
Dies Ir? Authorship of the Dies Ir? 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. Gen��rade, 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 Fun��bre. Nisard. Requiescat in Pace. Harriet M. Skidmore. The Feast of All Souls in the Country. Anna T. Sadlier. Requiem ?ternum 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, according to the difference of their states. Gehenna is prepared for the devil and his angels, whereas the empyreal Heaven is made for the good angels. In this way, it is certain that the souls, paying their debt, are kept in a corporeal place. This place is not heaven, for nothing that is defiled enters there; nor is it hell, for in hell there is no redemption, and from that place no souls can be saved.
PAIN