![]() Father Doyle said while tradition says St. ![]() Gertrude the Great, a 13th century Benedictine nun, was an early mystic of the Church and theologian with a devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. ![]() After offering prayers and Masses, the soul appeared again to the saint, assuring he’d been released from purgatory. Nicholas of Tolentino, a 13th century Augustinian priest and the patron saint of souls in purgatory, had a dream after being ordained about an Augustinian who “begged his prayers to be released from the ‘purifying torments’ that he was undergoing,” said Catholic News Service columnist Father Kenneth Doyle in a 2018 column. Thomas Aquinas, there are two saints specifically most associated with souls in purgatory. While there are many saints who have spoken or have had visions about purgatory, from St. “If our judgment is purely the result of what happens when we die, then what does it mean to say ‘forgiven in the age to come?’ So to say ‘forgiven in the age to come’ can infer there’s some level of forgiveness after death,” he said.
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