6 sentences with 'purgatory'
Example sentences and phrases with the word purgatory and other words derived from it.
• « My brother and I look at each other, ponder the suffocating purgatory that awaits us and protest in unison: »
• « 7. Anointing of the sick - a final ritual performed at the moment of death to send the soul to purgatory, the spiritual realm between earth and heaven where the sins of the soul will be burned away during years of atonement and purification. »
• « Dante's journeys through hell, purgatory and heaven in the poem are replete with encounters with two categories of people: Italians from Dante's life or the recent past, and real and mythical figures from ancient Greece and Rome. »
• « According to Catholic doctrine, instead, they spent years (centuries, usually) in a spiritual plane between earth and heaven called purgatory - there, their sins were purified through fire until they were purified. Only then could they ascend to heaven. »
• « Naturally, most people preferred to go directly to heaven if possible, and so the Church found that the sale of indulgences to avoid time in purgatory was enormously popular. »
• « Moreover, the indulgence could be purchased on behalf of those who were already dead and "take them out" of purgatory in one fell swoop. »