Purgatory
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"Purgatory surpasses heaven and hell in poetry, because it represents a future and the others do not."--François-René de Chateaubriand |
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- In Catholicism, the stage of the afterlife where souls suffer for their sins before they can enter heaven
- any situation causing suffering
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See also
- Anima Sola
- Bosom of Abraham
- Dante's Purgatorio
- Future probation
- Hades in Christianity
- Heaven
- Hell
- Hell in Christianity
- History of Purgatory
- Intermediate state
- Limbo
- Paradise
- Sheol
- Soul sleep
- Spirit world (Latter Day Saints)
- Spirits in prison
- St Patrick's Purgatory
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