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Shakespeare paints a frightening picture of purgatory. The dead King’s ghost says to his son the Prince Hamlet:


I am thy father’s ghost


Doom’d for a certain time to walk the night,


And for the day confin’d to fast in fires


Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature


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BOTH DANTE AND SHAKESPEARE

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Shakespeare paints a frightening picture of purgatory. The dead King’s ghost says to his son the Prince Hamlet:


I am thy father’s ghost


Doom’d for a certain time to walk the night,


And for the day confin’d to fast in fires


Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature


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Two pictures of purgatory

By AT RANDOM | By Fr. Miguel A. Bernad, SJ | November 10, 2006 - 12:00am

November is the month in which we remember our dead. For Catholics it is not mere remembrance. As the Bible puts it, "It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead that they may be loosed from their...

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