53 “The poetical descriptions of ‘the Purgatory’ abound with fanciful
visions. We shall give a real one from a MSS. Relatio of the diocese
of Waterford, made by Dr. Patrick Comerford, on 16th Oct, 1632:—‘In
dioecesi Corcagiensi est quidam Anglus qui (ut a multis fertur)
biduum vel triduum mortuns revixit, et cum ante obitum esset
Calvinista, statim atque revixit abjuravit Calvinismum et publice
soepius declaravit se vidisse in inferno Lutherum et Calvinum et
proinde neminem salvari posse qui eorum dogmatibus adhaereret; hinc
excitati Protestantes eum iu carcerem detruserunt’.”