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20250305_zia_a189_250 March 5, 2025, Rome, Italy: The â?? Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatoryâ?? housed in a room of the small neo-Gothic church of the Sacred Heart of Suffrage (Chiesa del Sacro Cuore del Suffragio) in Rome, Italy on March 5, 2025 is one of a kind in the world as it pretends to offer undeniable proofs of the existence of Purgatory. - Pictured: Burn mark left in Sarralbe (Lorraine, France) on 21 December 1838 by the deceased Joseph Schitz on the German language prayer book of his brother Georges touching it with the end of the five fingers of his right hand, while asking for the suffrage prayers to repair his little piety in life. - The tiny century-old â??Piccolo Museo Del Purgatorioâ?? holds a collection of bibles, prayer books, tabletops, and articles of clothing said to have been singed by the hands of souls in purgatory. The very unusual collection was commissioned by French missionary Victor Jouet following the events of 15 November 1897, when a mysterious fire broke out in the Rosary Chapel, in which the altar painting was spared. In the flames, the priest and the worshippers saw a suffering face, which was then enigmatically imprinted on the wall, a reproduced image of which is displayed in the exhibition. This convinced the priest that the soul of a deceased person in pain and condemned to purgatory wanted to contact the living. This led him to travel around Europe searching for evidence of the afterlife and the deceasedâ??s contact with living relatives. The collection includes fabric, tunics, skullcaps, breviaries and wooden tablets recounting apparitions of the deceased to relatives and believers, witnessed by their â??scorched imprintsâ??. These testimonies, circumstantiated and each with a unique history, mostly date to the 18th and 19th centuries and were motivated by requests for prayers or memorial masses to reduce the deceasedâ??s time in purgatory and hasten their (Credit Image: © Vandeville Eric/Abaca vi

20250305_zia_a189_273 March 5, 2025, Rome, Italy: The Neo-gothic Church of Sacro Cuore del Suffragio (Sacred Heart of the Suffrage) houses the â?? Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatoryâ?? in Rome, Italy on March 5, 2025. The museum is one of a kind in the world as it pretends to offer undeniable proofs of the existence of Purgatory. - Pictured: The Church of Sacro Cuore del Suffragio (Sacred Heart of the Suffrage) also known as Sacro Cuore di Gesu in Prati, is a catholic church in the centre of Rome (Italy). - The tiny century-old â??Piccolo Museo Del Purgatorioâ?? holds a collection of bibles, prayer books, tabletops, and articles of clothing said to have been singed by the hands of souls in purgatory. The very unusual collection was commissioned by French missionary Victor Jouet following the events of 15 November 1897, when a mysterious fire broke out in the Rosary Chapel, in which the altar painting was spared. In the flames, the priest and the worshippers saw a suffering face, which was then enigmatically imprinted on the wall, a reproduced image of which is displayed in the exhibition. This convinced the priest that the soul of a deceased person in pain and condemned to purgatory wanted to contact the living. This led him to travel around Europe searching for evidence of the afterlife and the deceasedâ??s contact with living relatives. The collection includes fabric, tunics, skullcaps, breviaries and wooden tablets recounting apparitions of the deceased to relatives and believers, witnessed by their â??scorched imprintsâ??. These testimonies, circumstantiated and each with a unique history, mostly date to the 18th and 19th centuries and were motivated by requests for prayers or memorial masses to reduce the deceasedâ??s time in purgatory and hasten their ascension to Heaven. A unique collection to get to grips with the mystery of faith. (Credit Image: © Vandeville Eric/Abaca/Zuma Press/Fotoarena)

20250305_zia_a189_254 March 5, 2025, Rome, Italy: The â?? Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatoryâ?? housed in a room of the small neo-Gothic church of the Sacred Heart of Suffrage (Chiesa del Sacro Cuore del Suffragio) in Rome, Italy on March 5, 2025 is one of a kind in the world as it pretends to offer undeniable proofs of the existence of Purgatory. - Pictured: LEFT and CENTER: Photographic reproduction of the altar of Our Lady of the Rosary, placed in an early chapel, between the current church and the religious house, destroyed in the fire on November 15 1897. On the left of the wall we can see a deceased in pain sentenced to Purgatory who wanted to get in touch with the living, asking for prayers. - - - RIGHT: Photographic reproduction of a burn mark left on Saturday 13 October 1696, on the apron of Sister Maria Herendorps a lay religious of the Benedictine monastery of Winnemberg (Germany) from the hand of the deceased Sister Chiara Schoelers, religious chorister of the same Order, victim of the plague in 1637. At the bottom of the photo we can see the burnt imprint of two hands, left by the same nun on a strip of canvas. - The tiny century-old â??Piccolo Museo Del Purgatorioâ?? holds a collection of bibles, prayer books, tabletops, and articles of clothing said to have been singed by the hands of souls in purgatory. The very unusual collection was commissioned by French missionary Victor Jouet following the events of 15 November 1897, when a mysterious fire broke out in the Rosary Chapel, in which the altar painting was spared. In the flames, the priest and the worshippers saw a suffering face, which was then enigmatically imprinted on the wall, a reproduced image of which is displayed in the exhibition. This convinced the priest that the soul of a deceased person in pain and condemned to purgatory wanted to contact the living. This led him to travel around Europe searching for evidence of the aft (Credit Image: © Vandeville Eric/Abaca/Zuma Press/Fotoarena)

20250305_zia_a189_243 March 5, 2025, Rome, Italy: The â?? Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatoryâ?? housed in a room of the small neo-Gothic church of the Sacred Heart of Suffrage (Chiesa del Sacro Cuore del Suffragio) in Rome, Italy on March 5, 2025 is one of a kind in the world as it pretends to offer undeniable proofs of the existence of Purgatory. - Pictured: Burn marks left by the hand of the deceased P. Panzini, Abbot Olivetano of Mantua on 1 November 1731 on some objects belonging to the venerable mother Isabella Fornari, Abbess of the Poor Clares of the Monastery of San Francisco in Todi (Italy). One, of the left hand is on the tablet used by the Abbess for her work with a sign of the cross deeply engraved in the wood. The report of the fact is given by Fr. Isidoro Gazala of the Most Holy Crucifix, confessor of the venerable mother, to whom he ordered by obedience to cut the pieces of the cassock and the tablet, so that they could be preserved. - The tiny century-old â??Piccolo Museo Del Purgatorioâ?? holds a collection of bibles, prayer books, tabletops, and articles of clothing said to have been singed by the hands of souls in purgatory. The very unusual collection was commissioned by French missionary Victor Jouet following the events of 15 November 1897, when a mysterious fire broke out in the Rosary Chapel, in which the altar painting was spared. In the flames, the priest and the worshippers saw a suffering face, which was then enigmatically imprinted on the wall, a reproduced image of which is displayed in the exhibition. This convinced the priest that the soul of a deceased person in pain and condemned to purgatory wanted to contact the living. This led him to travel around Europe searching for evidence of the afterlife and the deceasedâ??s contact with living relatives. The collection includes fabric, tunics, skullcaps, breviaries and wooden tablets recounting apparitions of the decease (Credit Image: © Vandeville Eric/Abaca/Zuma Press/Fotoarena)

20250305_zia_a189_251 March 5, 2025, Rome, Italy: The â?? Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatoryâ?? housed in a room of the small neo-Gothic church of the Sacred Heart of Suffrage (Chiesa del Sacro Cuore del Suffragio) in Rome, Italy on March 5, 2025 is one of a kind in the world as it pretends to offer undeniable proofs of the existence of Purgatory. - Pictured: Detail of a photographic reproduction of the altar of Our Lady of the Rosary, placed in an early chapel, between the current church and the religious house, destroyed in the fire on November 15 1897. On the wall we can see a deceased in pain sentenced to Purgatory who wanted to get in touch with the living, asking for prayers. - The tiny century-old â??Piccolo Museo Del Purgatorioâ?? holds a collection of bibles, prayer books, tabletops, and articles of clothing said to have been singed by the hands of souls in purgatory. The very unusual collection was commissioned by French missionary Victor Jouet following the events of 15 November 1897, when a mysterious fire broke out in the Rosary Chapel, in which the altar painting was spared. In the flames, the priest and the worshippers saw a suffering face, which was then enigmatically imprinted on the wall, a reproduced image of which is displayed in the exhibition. This convinced the priest that the soul of a deceased person in pain and condemned to purgatory wanted to contact the living. This led him to travel around Europe searching for evidence of the afterlife and the deceasedâ??s contact with living relatives. The collection includes fabric, tunics, skullcaps, breviaries and wooden tablets recounting apparitions of the deceased to relatives and believers, witnessed by their â??scorched imprintsâ??. These testimonies, circumstantiated and each with a unique history, mostly date to the 18th and 19th centuries and were motivated by requests for prayers or memorial masses to reduce the deceasedâ?? (Credit Image: © Vandeville Eric/Abaca vi

20250305_zia_a189_253 March 5, 2025, Rome, Italy: The â?? Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatoryâ?? housed in a room of the small neo-Gothic church of the Sacred Heart of Suffrage (Chiesa del Sacro Cuore del Suffragio) in Rome, Italy on March 5, 2025 is one of a kind in the world as it pretends to offer undeniable proofs of the existence of Purgatory. - Pictured: Italian Lira banknote: Between 18 august and 9 November 1919, thirty of these banknotes were left in the monastery of San Leonardo di Montefalco by a deceased priest to solicit Masses of suffrage for his memory. - The tiny century-old â??Piccolo Museo Del Purgatorioâ?? holds a collection of bibles, prayer books, tabletops, and articles of clothing said to have been singed by the hands of souls in purgatory. The very unusual collection was commissioned by French missionary Victor Jouet following the events of 15 November 1897, when a mysterious fire broke out in the Rosary Chapel, in which the altar painting was spared. In the flames, the priest and the worshippers saw a suffering face, which was then enigmatically imprinted on the wall, a reproduced image of which is displayed in the exhibition. This convinced the priest that the soul of a deceased person in pain and condemned to purgatory wanted to contact the living. This led him to travel around Europe searching for evidence of the afterlife and the deceasedâ??s contact with living relatives. The collection includes fabric, tunics, skullcaps, breviaries and wooden tablets recounting apparitions of the deceased to relatives and believers, witnessed by their â??scorched imprintsâ??. These testimonies, circumstantiated and each with a unique history, mostly date to the 18th and 19th centuries and were motivated by requests for prayers or memorial masses to reduce the deceasedâ??s time in purgatory and hasten their ascension to Heaven. A unique collection to get to grips with the mystery of fa (Credit Image: © Vandeville Eric/Abaca

20250305_zia_a189_260 March 5, 2025, Rome, Italy: The â?? Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatoryâ?? housed in a room of the small neo-Gothic church of the Sacred Heart of Suffrage (Chiesa del Sacro Cuore del Suffragio) in Rome, Italy on March 5, 2025 is one of a kind in the world as it pretends to offer undeniable proofs of the existence of Purgatory. - Pictured: The fire imprint left by a finger of Sister Maria di San Luigi Gonzaga, who appeared to Sister Maria del Sacro Cuore in 1894 in Bastia (Perugia, Italy). The report of the fact preserved in the monastery of Santa Chiara of the Child Jesus tells how Sister Marie suffering from tuberculosis died in 1894. She appeared in the following night to the amazed Sister Margherita and explained that she was in Purgatory. She asked for suffrage prayers and to attest to the reality of her apparition, she placed her index finger on the cushion cover and promised to return. - The tiny century-old â??Piccolo Museo Del Purgatorioâ?? holds a collection of bibles, prayer books, tabletops, and articles of clothing said to have been singed by the hands of souls in purgatory. The very unusual collection was commissioned by French missionary Victor Jouet following the events of 15 November 1897, when a mysterious fire broke out in the Rosary Chapel, in which the altar painting was spared. In the flames, the priest and the worshippers saw a suffering face, which was then enigmatically imprinted on the wall, a reproduced image of which is displayed in the exhibition. This convinced the priest that the soul of a deceased person in pain and condemned to purgatory wanted to contact the living. This led him to travel around Europe searching for evidence of the afterlife and the deceasedâ??s contact with living relatives. The collection includes fabric, tunics, skullcaps, breviaries and wooden tablets recounting apparitions of the deceased to relatives and believers, witness (Credit Image: © Vandeville Eric/Abaca/Zuma Press/Fotoarena)

20250305_zia_a189_261 March 5, 2025, Rome, Italy: The â?? Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatoryâ?? housed in a room of the small neo-Gothic church of the Sacred Heart of Suffrage (Chiesa del Sacro Cuore del Suffragio) in Rome, Italy on March 5, 2025 is one of a kind in the world as it pretends to offer undeniable proofs of the existence of Purgatory. - PICTURED: In 1875 Louise Le Senechal (Who died in 1873) appeared to her husband Louis in their house in Ducey (Normandy, France) asking him for prayers and leaving as a sign the print of five fingers on his nightcap. - The tiny century-old â??Piccolo Museo Del Purgatorioâ?? holds a collection of bibles, prayer books, tabletops, and articles of clothing said to have been singed by the hands of souls in purgatory. The very unusual collection was commissioned by French missionary Victor Jouet following the events of 15 November 1897, when a mysterious fire broke out in the Rosary Chapel, in which the altar painting was spared. In the flames, the priest and the worshippers saw a suffering face, which was then enigmatically imprinted on the wall, a reproduced image of which is displayed in the exhibition. This convinced the priest that the soul of a deceased person in pain and condemned to purgatory wanted to contact the living. This led him to travel around Europe searching for evidence of the afterlife and the deceasedâ??s contact with living relatives. The collection includes fabric, tunics, skullcaps, breviaries and wooden tablets recounting apparitions of the deceased to relatives and believers, witnessed by their â??scorched imprintsâ??. These testimonies, circumstantiated and each with a unique history, mostly date to the 18th and 19th centuries and were motivated by requests for prayers or memorial masses to reduce the deceasedâ??s time in purgatory and hasten their ascension to Heaven. A unique collection to get to grips with the mystery of faith. (Credit Image: © Vandeville Eric/Abaca v

20250305_zia_a189_256 March 5, 2025, Rome, Italy: The â?? Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatoryâ?? housed in a room of the small neo-Gothic church of the Sacred Heart of Suffrage (Chiesa del Sacro Cuore del Suffragio) in Rome, Italy on March 5, 2025 is one of a kind in the world as it pretends to offer undeniable proofs of the existence of Purgatory. - Pictured: Photographic reproductions of the altar of Our Lady of the Rosary, placed in an early chapel, between the current church and the religious house, destroyed in the fire on November 15 1897. On the left of the wall we can see a deceased in pain sentenced to Purgatory who wanted to get in touch with the living, asking for prayers. - The tiny century-old â??Piccolo Museo Del Purgatorioâ?? holds a collection of bibles, prayer books, tabletops, and articles of clothing said to have been singed by the hands of souls in purgatory. The very unusual collection was commissioned by French missionary Victor Jouet following the events of 15 November 1897, when a mysterious fire broke out in the Rosary Chapel, in which the altar painting was spared. In the flames, the priest and the worshippers saw a suffering face, which was then enigmatically imprinted on the wall, a reproduced image of which is displayed in the exhibition. This convinced the priest that the soul of a deceased person in pain and condemned to purgatory wanted to contact the living. This led him to travel around Europe searching for evidence of the afterlife and the deceasedâ??s contact with living relatives. The collection includes fabric, tunics, skullcaps, breviaries and wooden tablets recounting apparitions of the deceased to relatives and believers, witnessed by their â??scorched imprintsâ??. These testimonies, circumstantiated and each with a unique history, mostly date to the 18th and 19th centuries and were motivated by requests for prayers or memorial masses to reduce the deceasedâ? (Credit Image: © Vandeville Eric/Abaca via

20250305_zia_a189_274 March 5, 2025, Rome, Italy: The Neo-gothic Church of Sacro Cuore del Suffragio (Sacred Heart of the Suffrage) houses the â?? Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatoryâ?? in Rome, Italy on March 5, 2025. The museum is one of a kind in the world as it pretends to offer undeniable proofs of the existence of Purgatory. - Pictured: The nave of the Church of Sacro Cuore del Suffragio (Sacred Heart of the Suffrage) also known as Sacro Cuore di Gesu in Prati, is a catholic church in the centre of Rome (Italy). - The tiny century-old â??Piccolo Museo Del Purgatorioâ?? holds a collection of bibles, prayer books, tabletops, and articles of clothing said to have been singed by the hands of souls in purgatory. The very unusual collection was commissioned by French missionary Victor Jouet following the events of 15 November 1897, when a mysterious fire broke out in the Rosary Chapel, in which the altar painting was spared. In the flames, the priest and the worshippers saw a suffering face, which was then enigmatically imprinted on the wall, a reproduced image of which is displayed in the exhibition. This convinced the priest that the soul of a deceased person in pain and condemned to purgatory wanted to contact the living. This led him to travel around Europe searching for evidence of the afterlife and the deceasedâ??s contact with living relatives. The collection includes fabric, tunics, skullcaps, breviaries and wooden tablets recounting apparitions of the deceased to relatives and believers, witnessed by their â??scorched imprintsâ??. These testimonies, circumstantiated and each with a unique history, mostly date to the 18th and 19th centuries and were motivated by requests for prayers or memorial masses to reduce the deceasedâ??s time in purgatory and hasten their ascension to Heaven. A unique collection to get to grips with the mystery of faith. (Credit Image: © Vandeville Eric/Abaca/Zuma Press/Fotoarena)

20250305_zia_a189_257 March 5, 2025, Rome, Italy: The â?? Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatoryâ?? housed in a room of the small neo-Gothic church of the Sacred Heart of Suffrage (Chiesa del Sacro Cuore del Suffragio) in Rome, Italy on March 5, 2025 is one of a kind in the world as it pretends to offer undeniable proofs of the existence of Purgatory. - Pictured: Portrait of Victor Jouet (1839-1912), French missionary who decided to search for testimonies (documents and looms) about the appearances of the souls of Purgatory and to collect them in a museum inside the church. - The tiny century-old â??Piccolo Museo Del Purgatorioâ?? holds a collection of bibles, prayer books, tabletops, and articles of clothing said to have been singed by the hands of souls in purgatory. The very unusual collection was commissioned by French missionary Victor Jouet following the events of 15 November 1897, when a mysterious fire broke out in the Rosary Chapel, in which the altar painting was spared. In the flames, the priest and the worshippers saw a suffering face, which was then enigmatically imprinted on the wall, a reproduced image of which is displayed in the exhibition. This convinced the priest that the soul of a deceased person in pain and condemned to purgatory wanted to contact the living. This led him to travel around Europe searching for evidence of the afterlife and the deceasedâ??s contact with living relatives. The collection includes fabric, tunics, skullcaps, breviaries and wooden tablets recounting apparitions of the deceased to relatives and believers, witnessed by their â??scorched imprintsâ??. These testimonies, circumstantiated and each with a unique history, mostly date to the 18th and 19th centuries and were motivated by requests for prayers or memorial masses to reduce the deceasedâ??s time in purgatory and hasten their ascension to Heaven. A unique collection to get to grips with the mystery of (Credit Image: © Vandeville Eric/Abaca

20250305_zia_a189_248 March 5, 2025, Rome, Italy: The â?? Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatoryâ?? housed in a room of the small neo-Gothic church of the Sacred Heart of Suffrage (Chiesa del Sacro Cuore del Suffragio) in Rome, Italy on March 5, 2025 is one of a kind in the world as it pretends to offer undeniable proofs of the existence of Purgatory. - Pictured: Burn mark left by a deceased on a German language prayer book to solicit Masses of suffrage for his memory. (Subject to further analysis insights). - The tiny century-old â??Piccolo Museo Del Purgatorioâ?? holds a collection of bibles, prayer books, tabletops, and articles of clothing said to have been singed by the hands of souls in purgatory. The very unusual collection was commissioned by French missionary Victor Jouet following the events of 15 November 1897, when a mysterious fire broke out in the Rosary Chapel, in which the altar painting was spared. In the flames, the priest and the worshippers saw a suffering face, which was then enigmatically imprinted on the wall, a reproduced image of which is displayed in the exhibition. This convinced the priest that the soul of a deceased person in pain and condemned to purgatory wanted to contact the living. This led him to travel around Europe searching for evidence of the afterlife and the deceasedâ??s contact with living relatives. The collection includes fabric, tunics, skullcaps, breviaries and wooden tablets recounting apparitions of the deceased to relatives and believers, witnessed by their â??scorched imprintsâ??. These testimonies, circumstantiated and each with a unique history, mostly date to the 18th and 19th centuries and were motivated by requests for prayers or memorial masses to reduce the deceasedâ??s time in purgatory and hasten their ascension to Heaven. A unique collection to get to grips with the mystery of faith. (Credit Image: © Vandeville Eric/Abaca/Zuma Press/Fotoarena)

20250305_zia_a189_262 March 5, 2025, Rome, Italy: The â?? Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatoryâ?? housed in a room of the small neo-Gothic church of the Sacred Heart of Suffrage (Chiesa del Sacro Cuore del Suffragio) in Rome, Italy on March 5, 2025 is one of a kind in the world as it pretends to offer undeniable proofs of the existence of Purgatory. - PICTURED: Photography of a burn mark left by the deceased Mrs Leleux on the sleeve of her son Josephâ??s skirt, when she appeared him on the night of 21 June 1789 in Wodecq (Belgium). According to the son, for eleven consecutive evenings before that night, he heard noises that terrified him, almost making sick. His mother, who died 27 years earlier, reminded him of his duty of having Holy Masses said (in compliance with the terms of his paternal legacy) and reproached him for his reprehensible lifestyle, begging him to change his behavior and work for the Church. Then she put her hand on his shirt, leaving a very visible handprint. Joseph Leleux revived and founded a Congregation and later died in odor of sanctity in 1825. - The tiny century-old â??Piccolo Museo Del Purgatorioâ?? holds a collection of bibles, prayer books, tabletops, and articles of clothing said to have been singed by the hands of souls in purgatory. The very unusual collection was commissioned by French missionary Victor Jouet following the events of 15 November 1897, when a mysterious fire broke out in the Rosary Chapel, in which the altar painting was spared. In the flames, the priest and the worshippers saw a suffering face, which was then enigmatically imprinted on the wall, a reproduced image of which is displayed in the exhibition. This convinced the priest that the soul of a deceased person in pain and condemned to purgatory wanted to contact the living. This led him to travel around Europe searching for evidence of the afterlife and the deceasedâ??s contact with living relatives (Credit Image: © Vandeville Eric/Abaca via ZUMA Pres

20250305_zia_a189_263 March 5, 2025, Rome, Italy: The â?? Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatoryâ?? housed in a room of the small neo-Gothic church of the Sacred Heart of Suffrage (Chiesa del Sacro Cuore del Suffragio) in Rome, Italy on March 5, 2025 is one of a kind in the world as it pretends to offer undeniable proofs of the existence of Purgatory. - PICTURED: Painting representing the suffering face which appeared on the wall of the altar after a mysterious fire broke out in the Rosary Chapel of the church of Sacro Cuore del Suffragio in 1897. The deceased in pain sentenced to Purgatory wanted to get in touch with the living, asking for prayers. - The tiny century-old â??Piccolo Museo Del Purgatorioâ?? holds a collection of bibles, prayer books, tabletops, and articles of clothing said to have been singed by the hands of souls in purgatory. The very unusual collection was commissioned by French missionary Victor Jouet following the events of 15 November 1897, when a mysterious fire broke out in the Rosary Chapel, in which the altar painting was spared. In the flames, the priest and the worshippers saw a suffering face, which was then enigmatically imprinted on the wall, a reproduced image of which is displayed in the exhibition. This convinced the priest that the soul of a deceased person in pain and condemned to purgatory wanted to contact the living. This led him to travel around Europe searching for evidence of the afterlife and the deceasedâ??s contact with living relatives. The collection includes fabric, tunics, skullcaps, breviaries and wooden tablets recounting apparitions of the deceased to relatives and believers, witnessed by their â??scorched imprintsâ??. These testimonies, circumstantiated and each with a unique history, mostly date to the 18th and 19th centuries and were motivated by requests for prayers or memorial masses to reduce the deceasedâ??s time in purgatory and hasten their (Credit Image: © Vandeville Eric/Abaca vi

20250305_zia_a189_252 March 5, 2025, Rome, Italy: The â?? Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatoryâ?? housed in a room of the small neo-Gothic church of the Sacred Heart of Suffrage (Chiesa del Sacro Cuore del Suffragio) in Rome, Italy on March 5, 2025 is one of a kind in the world as it pretends to offer undeniable proofs of the existence of Purgatory. - Pictured: Imprint left in 1815 on a devotional book of Margherita Demmerle of the parish of Ellinghen (in Lorraine, France) by her mother-in-law who appeared thirty years after her death in 1785. The deceased appeared looking sadly at her daughter-in-law. She said â?? I am your mother-in-law who died in childbirth 30 years ago. Go on pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Mariental and there have two Holy Masses celebrated for meâ??. After the pilgrimage the apparition showed up again to announce her release from Purgatory. To her daughter-in-law who, on the advice of the parish priest, asked for a sign, she placed her hand on the book â??The imitation of Christâ??, leaving the sign of the burn. Later she no longer appeared.â?? - The tiny century-old â??Piccolo Museo Del Purgatorioâ?? holds a collection of bibles, prayer books, tabletops, and articles of clothing said to have been singed by the hands of souls in purgatory. The very unusual collection was commissioned by French missionary Victor Jouet following the events of 15 November 1897, when a mysterious fire broke out in the Rosary Chapel, in which the altar painting was spared. In the flames, the priest and the worshippers saw a suffering face, which was then enigmatically imprinted on the wall, a reproduced image of which is displayed in the exhibition. This convinced the priest that the soul of a deceased person in pain and condemned to purgatory wanted to contact the living. This led him to travel around Europe searching for evidence of the afterlife and the deceasedâ??s contact with living rel (Credit Image: © Vandeville Eric/A

20250305_zia_a189_249 March 5, 2025, Rome, Italy: The â?? Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatoryâ?? housed in a room of the small neo-Gothic church of the Sacred Heart of Suffrage (Chiesa del Sacro Cuore del Suffragio) in Rome, Italy on March 5, 2025 is one of a kind in the world as it pretends to offer undeniable proofs of the existence of Purgatory. - Pictured: Burn mark left by a deceased on a German language prayer book with the end of the five fingers of his right hand to solicit Masses of suffrage for his memory. (Subject to further analysis insights). - The tiny century-old â??Piccolo Museo Del Purgatorioâ?? holds a collection of bibles, prayer books, tabletops, and articles of clothing said to have been singed by the hands of souls in purgatory. The very unusual collection was commissioned by French missionary Victor Jouet following the events of 15 November 1897, when a mysterious fire broke out in the Rosary Chapel, in which the altar painting was spared. In the flames, the priest and the worshippers saw a suffering face, which was then enigmatically imprinted on the wall, a reproduced image of which is displayed in the exhibition. This convinced the priest that the soul of a deceased person in pain and condemned to purgatory wanted to contact the living. This led him to travel around Europe searching for evidence of the afterlife and the deceasedâ??s contact with living relatives. The collection includes fabric, tunics, skullcaps, breviaries and wooden tablets recounting apparitions of the deceased to relatives and believers, witnessed by their â??scorched imprintsâ??. These testimonies, circumstantiated and each with a unique history, mostly date to the 18th and 19th centuries and were motivated by requests for prayers or memorial masses to reduce the deceasedâ??s time in purgatory and hasten their ascension to Heaven. A unique collection to get to grips with the mystery of faith. (Credit Image: © Vandeville Eric/Abaca via ZUMA

20250305_zia_a189_255 March 5, 2025, Rome, Italy: The â?? Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatoryâ?? housed in a room of the small neo-Gothic church of the Sacred Heart of Suffrage (Chiesa del Sacro Cuore del Suffragio) in Rome, Italy on March 5, 2025 is one of a kind in the world as it pretends to offer undeniable proofs of the existence of Purgatory. - Pictured: Painting representing the suffering face which appeared on the wall of the altar after a mysterious fire broke out in the Rosary Chapel of the church of Sacro Cuore del Suffragio in 1897. The deceased in pain sentenced to Purgatory wanted to get in touch with the living, asking for prayers. - The tiny century-old â??Piccolo Museo Del Purgatorioâ?? holds a collection of bibles, prayer books, tabletops, and articles of clothing said to have been singed by the hands of souls in purgatory. The very unusual collection was commissioned by French missionary Victor Jouet following the events of 15 November 1897, when a mysterious fire broke out in the Rosary Chapel, in which the altar painting was spared. In the flames, the priest and the worshippers saw a suffering face, which was then enigmatically imprinted on the wall, a reproduced image of which is displayed in the exhibition. This convinced the priest that the soul of a deceased person in pain and condemned to purgatory wanted to contact the living. This led him to travel around Europe searching for evidence of the afterlife and the deceasedâ??s contact with living relatives. The collection includes fabric, tunics, skullcaps, breviaries and wooden tablets recounting apparitions of the deceased to relatives and believers, witnessed by their â??scorched imprintsâ??. These testimonies, circumstantiated and each with a unique history, mostly date to the 18th and 19th centuries and were motivated by requests for prayers or memorial masses to reduce the deceasedâ??s time in purgatory and hasten their (Credit Image: © Vandeville Eric/Abaca vi

20250305_zia_a189_272 March 5, 2025, Rome, Italy: The Neo-gothic Church of Sacro Cuore del Suffragio (Sacred Heart of the Suffrage) houses the â?? Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatoryâ?? in Rome, Italy on March 5, 2025. The museum is one of a kind in the world as it pretends to offer undeniable proofs of the existence of Purgatory. - Pictured: The Church of Sacro Cuore del Suffragio (Sacred Heart of the Suffrage) also known as Sacro Cuore di Gesu in Prati, is a catholic church in the centre of Rome (Italy). - The tiny century-old â??Piccolo Museo Del Purgatorioâ?? holds a collection of bibles, prayer books, tabletops, and articles of clothing said to have been singed by the hands of souls in purgatory. The very unusual collection was commissioned by French missionary Victor Jouet following the events of 15 November 1897, when a mysterious fire broke out in the Rosary Chapel, in which the altar painting was spared. In the flames, the priest and the worshippers saw a suffering face, which was then enigmatically imprinted on the wall, a reproduced image of which is displayed in the exhibition. This convinced the priest that the soul of a deceased person in pain and condemned to purgatory wanted to contact the living. This led him to travel around Europe searching for evidence of the afterlife and the deceasedâ??s contact with living relatives. The collection includes fabric, tunics, skullcaps, breviaries and wooden tablets recounting apparitions of the deceased to relatives and believers, witnessed by their â??scorched imprintsâ??. These testimonies, circumstantiated and each with a unique history, mostly date to the 18th and 19th centuries and were motivated by requests for prayers or memorial masses to reduce the deceasedâ??s time in purgatory and hasten their ascension to Heaven. A unique collection to get to grips with the mystery of faith. (Credit Image: © Vandeville Eric/Abaca/Zuma Press/Fotoarena)

20250305_zia_a189_258 March 5, 2025, Rome, Italy: The â?? Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatoryâ?? housed in a room of the small neo-Gothic church of the Sacred Heart of Suffrage (Chiesa del Sacro Cuore del Suffragio) in Rome, Italy on March 5, 2025 is one of a kind in the world as it pretends to offer undeniable proofs of the existence of Purgatory. - Pictured: Portrait of Victor Jouet (1839-1912), French missionary who decided to search for testimonies (documents and looms) about the appearances of the souls of Purgatory and to collect them in a museum inside the church. - The tiny century-old â??Piccolo Museo Del Purgatorioâ?? holds a collection of bibles, prayer books, tabletops, and articles of clothing said to have been singed by the hands of souls in purgatory. The very unusual collection was commissioned by French missionary Victor Jouet following the events of 15 November 1897, when a mysterious fire broke out in the Rosary Chapel, in which the altar painting was spared. In the flames, the priest and the worshippers saw a suffering face, which was then enigmatically imprinted on the wall, a reproduced image of which is displayed in the exhibition. This convinced the priest that the soul of a deceased person in pain and condemned to purgatory wanted to contact the living. This led him to travel around Europe searching for evidence of the afterlife and the deceasedâ??s contact with living relatives. The collection includes fabric, tunics, skullcaps, breviaries and wooden tablets recounting apparitions of the deceased to relatives and believers, witnessed by their â??scorched imprintsâ??. These testimonies, circumstantiated and each with a unique history, mostly date to the 18th and 19th centuries and were motivated by requests for prayers or memorial masses to reduce the deceasedâ??s time in purgatory and hasten their ascension to Heaven. A unique collection to get to grips with the mystery of (Credit Image: © Vandeville Eric/Abaca

20250305_zia_a189_259 March 5, 2025, Rome, Italy: The â?? Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatoryâ?? housed in a room of the small neo-Gothic church of the Sacred Heart of Suffrage (Chiesa del Sacro Cuore del Suffragio) in Rome, Italy on March 5, 2025 is one of a kind in the world as it pretends to offer undeniable proofs of the existence of Purgatory. - Pictured: Portrait of Victor Jouet (1839-1912), French missionary who decided to search for testimonies (documents and looms) about the appearances of the souls of Purgatory and to collect them in a museum inside the church. - The tiny century-old â??Piccolo Museo Del Purgatorioâ?? holds a collection of bibles, prayer books, tabletops, and articles of clothing said to have been singed by the hands of souls in purgatory. The very unusual collection was commissioned by French missionary Victor Jouet following the events of 15 November 1897, when a mysterious fire broke out in the Rosary Chapel, in which the altar painting was spared. In the flames, the priest and the worshippers saw a suffering face, which was then enigmatically imprinted on the wall, a reproduced image of which is displayed in the exhibition. This convinced the priest that the soul of a deceased person in pain and condemned to purgatory wanted to contact the living. This led him to travel around Europe searching for evidence of the afterlife and the deceasedâ??s contact with living relatives. The collection includes fabric, tunics, skullcaps, breviaries and wooden tablets recounting apparitions of the deceased to relatives and believers, witnessed by their â??scorched imprintsâ??. These testimonies, circumstantiated and each with a unique history, mostly date to the 18th and 19th centuries and were motivated by requests for prayers or memorial masses to reduce the deceasedâ??s time in purgatory and hasten their ascension to Heaven. A unique collection to get to grips with the mystery of (Credit Image: © Vandeville Eric/Abaca

20250305_zia_a189_244 March 5, 2025, Rome, Italy: The â?? Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatoryâ?? housed in a room of the small neo-Gothic church of the Sacred Heart of Suffrage (Chiesa del Sacro Cuore del Suffragio) in Rome, Italy on March 5, 2025 is one of a kind in the world as it pretends to offer undeniable proofs of the existence of Purgatory. - Pictured: Photographic reproduction of a burn mark left on Saturday 13 October 1696, on the apron of Sister Maria Herendorps a lay religious of the Benedictine monastery of Winnemberg (Germany) from the hand of the deceased Sister Chiara Schoelers, religious chorister of the same Order, victim of the plague in 1637. At the bottom of the photo we can see the burnt imprint of two hands, left by the same nun on a strip of canvas. - The tiny century-old â??Piccolo Museo Del Purgatorioâ?? holds a collection of bibles, prayer books, tabletops, and articles of clothing said to have been singed by the hands of souls in purgatory. The very unusual collection was commissioned by French missionary Victor Jouet following the events of 15 November 1897, when a mysterious fire broke out in the Rosary Chapel, in which the altar painting was spared. In the flames, the priest and the worshippers saw a suffering face, which was then enigmatically imprinted on the wall, a reproduced image of which is displayed in the exhibition. This convinced the priest that the soul of a deceased person in pain and condemned to purgatory wanted to contact the living. This led him to travel around Europe searching for evidence of the afterlife and the deceasedâ??s contact with living relatives. The collection includes fabric, tunics, skullcaps, breviaries and wooden tablets recounting apparitions of the deceased to relatives and believers, witnessed by their â??scorched imprintsâ??. These testimonies, circumstantiated and each with a unique history, mostly date to the 18th and 19th centu (Credit Image: © Vandeville Eric/Abaca via ZUM

20250305_zia_a189_245 March 5, 2025, Rome, Italy: The â?? Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatoryâ?? housed in a room of the small neo-Gothic church of the Sacred Heart of Suffrage (Chiesa del Sacro Cuore del Suffragio) in Rome, Italy on March 5, 2025 is one of a kind in the world as it pretends to offer undeniable proofs of the existence of Purgatory. - Pictured: - - - Burn marks left by the hands of the deceased P. Panzini, Abbot Olivetano of Mantua on 1 November 1731 on some objects belonging to the venerable mother Isabella Fornari, Abbess of the Poor Clares of the Monastery of San Francisco in Todi (Italy). One, of the left hand is on the tablet used by the Abbess for her work with a sign of the cross deeply engraved in the wood. The report of the fact is given by Fr. Isidoro Gazala of the Most Holy Crucifix, confessor of the venerable mother, to whom he ordered by obedience to cut the pieces of the cassock and the tablet, so that they could be preserved. - The tiny century-old â??Piccolo Museo Del Purgatorioâ?? holds a collection of bibles, prayer books, tabletops, and articles of clothing said to have been singed by the hands of souls in purgatory. The very unusual collection was commissioned by French missionary Victor Jouet following the events of 15 November 1897, when a mysterious fire broke out in the Rosary Chapel, in which the altar painting was spared. In the flames, the priest and the worshippers saw a suffering face, which was then enigmatically imprinted on the wall, a reproduced image of which is displayed in the exhibition. This convinced the priest that the soul of a deceased person in pain and condemned to purgatory wanted to contact the living. This led him to travel around Europe searching for evidence of the afterlife and the deceasedâ??s contact with living relatives. The collection includes fabric, tunics, skullcaps, breviaries and wooden tablets recounting apparitions of the (Credit Image: © Vandeville Eric/Abaca/Zuma Press/Fotoarena)

20250305_zia_a189_242 March 5, 2025, Rome, Italy: The â?? Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatoryâ?? housed in a room of the small neo-Gothic church of the Sacred Heart of Suffrage (Chiesa del Sacro Cuore del Suffragio) in Rome, Italy on March 5, 2025 is one of a kind in the world as it pretends to offer undeniable proofs of the existence of Purgatory. - - Pictured: Imprint of three fingers left in 1871 on the prayers book of Maria Zaganti by deceased Palmira Rastelli (who died in 1870) to solicit Masses of suffrage for her memory. - The tiny century-old â??Piccolo Museo Del Purgatorioâ?? holds a collection of bibles, prayer books, tabletops, and articles of clothing said to have been singed by the hands of souls in purgatory. The very unusual collection was commissioned by French missionary Victor Jouet following the events of 15 November 1897, when a mysterious fire broke out in the Rosary Chapel, in which the altar painting was spared. In the flames, the priest and the worshippers saw a suffering face, which was then enigmatically imprinted on the wall, a reproduced image of which is displayed in the exhibition. This convinced the priest that the soul of a deceased person in pain and condemned to purgatory wanted to contact the living. This led him to travel around Europe searching for evidence of the afterlife and the deceasedâ??s contact with living relatives. The collection includes fabric, tunics, skullcaps, breviaries and wooden tablets recounting apparitions of the deceased to relatives and believers, witnessed by their â??scorched imprintsâ??. These testimonies, circumstantiated and each with a unique history, mostly date to the 18th and 19th centuries and were motivated by requests for prayers or memorial masses to reduce the deceasedâ??s time in purgatory and hasten their ascension to Heaven. A unique collection to get to grips with the mystery of faith. (Credit Image: © Vandeville Eric/Abaca/Zuma Press/Fotoarena)