Pope Gregory The Great: The Purgatory Way Of Life

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The early beliefs of purgatory stem from the jewish tradition. Judaism has always had a practice of giving offerings for the dead. So it is believedby many that this idea origionally came from the religion's heritage. One thing is for sure though, much has been added by the church to uncover the place called purgatory. The evolution of the belief of purgatory, or as it was called by Pope Gregory the Great, “a Purifying Fire,” has taken many leaps and bounds since the origional just prayer for the dead. Many of the church fathers knew that there was something between Heaven and Earth, but there was three church fathers that agreed on this the most, only varying in minor ways. The three Church Fathers that conceived of the idea that some people that are in sin may be saved, most probably through a trial of some sort, are Saint Ambrose, Saint Jerome, and Saint Augustine. This idea that these great Church Fathers came up with was just kind of left alone for many years, and allowed to gradually make itself clearer. The idea of a judgement, or a type of afterlife penance before entering heaven, stayed just as that, an idea. Until in the late sixth century the pope of the time gave the people more clarification. In Dialogues, written by Pope Gregory the Great, the Church's acknowledging of the sort of buffer zone between Earth and …show more content…
This vision from God would clarify a few of the burning questions the church had. One of the visions was of a Holy man being carried to Heaven without the mention of a Purgatory. The other of his visions showed to him a clear picture of a magnificent Heaven and a dreadful Hell. The part that seemed to stand out though was the adjacent, “temperary abodes of similar character but inferior.” This was significant because now the Church knew that this, “Purifying Fire,” was a physical thing seperate from heaven. It was now known that it was not just a primary jugdement, but some sort of
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