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60 to remove the errors and superstitions of the people, and to preserve the purity of the Christian faith.…

"It was therefore rehnquished, and the happy consequence was, that all the people gradually became free from the error of Purgatory. Thenceforward the Catholic doctrine prevailed in England, that the righteous after death are immediately translated to a region of peace, refreshment, and joy; while the wicked are consigned to the place of torment from whence there is no escape. And, when the doctrine of Pugatory had been extirpated, the English Church restored the Commemoration of Saints departed in the Liturgy;" [viz. at the end of the Prayer for the Church Militant;] "which had been omitted for many years, from the same cautious and pious regard to the souls of her children ."