The word purgatory is from the Latin verb ‘’ purgo, purgare ‘’ which means ‘’ I make clean, to make clean’’. This is in the 1st conjugation of regular Latin verbs and it literally means to purge. Purgatives are imbibed in order to remove unwanted harmful substances from the bowels of animals. If not expelled, […]
Purgatory, the condition, process, or place of purification or temporary punishment in which, according to medieval Christian and Roman Catholic belief, the souls of those who die in a state of grace are made ready for heaven. Purgatory (Latin: purgatorium; from purgare, “to purge”) has come to refer as well to a wide range of historical and modern conceptions of postmortem suffering short of everlasting damnation. Roman Catholic […]
