The Visions of Saint Frances of Rome: Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven Revealed
Ebook
Learn from one of the Church's great mystics, Saint Frances of Rome. In this book, she narrates her visions to her spiritual director, Canon Giovanni Matteoni. He records her visions of the geography of hell and the state of limbo. She describes the punishments for various sins such as perverts, usurers, blasphemers, traitors, murderers, apostates, schismatics, incestuous people, witches and more. She also talks about the particular torments due to the seven deadly sins and the punishments for theft, dishonoring parents, breaking vows of chastity and selling daughters into prostitution.
In addition to these visions of hell, Saint Frances also shares her visions of purgatory and heaven. She talks about the condition of souls in purgatory and the glories of heaven and so much more. Her visions will provide you with rich meditations on the realities of the Four Last Things.
- Title: The Visions of Saint Frances of Rome: Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven Revealed
- Author: Frances of Rome
- Publisher: TAN Books
- Print Publication Date: 2024
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781505131574, 150513157X
- Resource ID: LLS:9781505131574
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-08-01T07:35:16Z
"Frances of Rome was born in 1384 in Rome to a noble family. She was one of the greatest mystics of the fifteenth century. She died on March 9, 1440, in Rome. Frances was remarkable for her charity to the poor and her zeal for souls. She won away many Roman ladies from a life of frivolity and united them in an association of oblates attached to the White Benedictine monastery of Santa Maria Nuova. Later they became the Benedictine Oblate Congregation of Tor di Specchi (25 March, 1433) which was approved by Eugene IV (4 July, 1433). Its members led the life of religious but without the strict cloister or formal vows and gave themselves up to prayer and good works. With her husband’s consent Frances practiced continency and advanced in a life of contemplation. Her visions often assumed the form of drama enacted for her by heavenly personages. She had the gift of miracles and ecstasy as well as the bodily vision of her guardian angel, had revelations concerning purgatory and hell, and foretold the ending of the Western Schism. She could read the secrets of consciences and detect plots of diabolical origin. She was remarkable for her humility and detachment, her obedience and patience, exemplified on the occasion of her husband’s banishment, the captivity of Battista, her sons’ death, and the loss of all her property. Frances founded an association called Olivetan Oblates of Mary on August 15, 1425. It was a confraternity of pious women under the authority of Olivetan monks at Santa Maria Nova Abbey in Rome but neither cloistered nor bound by formal vows so they could follow Frances’ pattern of combining a life of prayer with answering the needs of their society. Frances was canonized in 1608 by Paul V. Her feast day is celebrated on March 91."