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Purgatory is supposed to be a transition period of indefinite duration intended for the perfecting of those people who die in Christ. It is taught that they experience suffering to pay for the sins they committed in this life until they are ready to enter into heaven. The Bible does not teach that.
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Purgatorio ( Italian: [purɡaˈtɔːrjo]; Italian for "Purgatory") is the second part of Dante 's Divine Comedy, following the Inferno and preceding the Paradiso. The poem was written in the early 14th century.
The core seven sins within Purgatory correspond to a moral scheme of love perverted, subdivided into three groups corresponding to excessive love (Lust, Gluttony, Greed), deficient love , and malicious love (Wrath, Envy, Pride).
The Paradiso begins at the top of Mount Purgatory, called the Earthly Paradise (i.e. the Garden of Eden), at noon on Wednesday, March 30 (or April 13), 1300, following Easter Sunday.
The Vision or Hell, Purgatory and Paradise of Dante Alighieri translated by Henry Francis Cary with 109 illustrations by John Flaxman. London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1910. Call number: PQ 4315 C4 1910 (Special Collections) Case 1: “The Divine Comedy Between Texts and Images”
This section of Discover Dante introduces Purgatorio. We begin with an overview of Dante's idea of Purgatory, before working through the text canto by canto, and then considering some of the major themes in the text.
Purgatory is an intermediate state of purification between death and heaven for those who die with venial sins for an amount of time appropriate to the amount and severity of the sins as deemed by God to remove the temporal effects of sin. It is the final purification so that one’s soul can enter heaven unblemished.
