Purgationem peccatorum faciens.
Making purgation of sins
Hebrews 1.3
Sancta et salubris cogitatio pro defunctis exorare.
It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead
2 Machabees 12.46
Impleti sunt dies purgationis.
The days of her purification were accomplished.
Luke 2.22
Quando veniam, et apparebo ante faciem Dei?
When shall I come and appear before the face of God?
Psalm 41.3
Educ de custodia animam meam.
Bring my soul out of prison.
Psalm 141.8
Non exies inde, donec reddas novissimum quadrantem.
Thou shalt not go out from thence till thou repay the last farthing.
Matthew 5.26
Heu mihi, quia incolatus meus prolongatus est!
Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged!
Psalm 119.5
Ante te omne desiderium meum.
All my desire is before thee.
Psalm 37.10
Et dimitte universa delicta mea.
And forgive me all my sins.
Psalm 24.18
Vide, Domine, laborem meum.
Modern Hagiography
Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler.
Lives of the Saints by Francis Weninger.
Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould.
The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger.
Our Birthday Bouquet Culled from the Shrines of the Saints and the Gardens of the Poets by Eleanor C. Donnelly.
Pictorial Half Hours with the Saints by Auguste François Lecanu.
Sermons for Children’s Masses, According to the Sundays and Principal Festivals of the Year by Raphael Frassinetti.
Goffine’s Devout Instructions on the Epistles and Gospels for the Sundays and Holydays
The Lives of Saints, with Other Feasts of the Year, According to the Roman Calendar by Peter Ribadeneira.
Medieval Hagiography
The Golden Legend (and illustrations)
Breviarium Romanum – Latin.
Art & Architecture
POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine
Warburg Institute Iconographic Database – Purgatory
16C Virgin & Child with the Souls in Purgatory
17C Virgin & Child with the Souls in Purgatory
Music
Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Motet pour les trépassés à 8 / Plainte des âmes du purgatoire, H.311
Customs & Devotions
Heortology: A History Of The Christian Festivals From Their Origin To The Present Day by Heinrich Kellner.
Original, Short and Practical Sermons for Every Feast of the Ecclesiastical Year : Three Sermons for Every Feast by Francis Weninger.
Meditations for the Use of the Secular Clergy by Pierre Chaignon.
Manna for the Soul: Meditations for Every Day of the Year by Paulo Segneri.
Meditations on the Life, the Teaching and the Passion of Jesus Christ for Every Day of the Ecclesiastical Year with an Appendix of Meditations for the Festivals of Various Saints by Augustin Maria Ilg.
Meditations for All the Days of the Year by M. Hamon – Second Meditation.
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