Page:Purgatory00scho.djvu/111

 acknowledged her guilt, then running to her confessor, hastened to repair her crime."

" Since that day," adds Father Schoofs, "that house has never been troubled. The family that inhabit it have prospered rapidly, and to-day they are rich. The two brothers continue to conduct themselves in an exemplary manner, and their sister became a Religious in a convent, of which she is at the present time Superior."

Everything leads us to believe that the prosperity of that family was the result of the succour given to the departed soul. After two centuries of punishment there remained to the latter but a small part of the expiation, and the performance of some good works which he asked. When these were accomplished, he was delivered, and wished to show his gratitude by obtaining the blessings of God upon his benefactors.

The following incident is related with authentic proof by the journal, The Monde, in the number of April 1860. It took place in America, in the Abbey of the Benedictines, situated in the village of Latrobe. A series of apparitions occurred during the course of the year 1859. The American press took up the matter, and treated those grave questions with its usual levity. In order to put a stop to scandal, the Abbot Wimmer, Superior of the house, addressed the following letter to the newspapers.

"The following is a true statement of the case: — In our