Monday, June 29, 2020

Hell and Purgatory

Via dell'Inferno and Via del Purgatorio, Hell Street and Purgatory Street, Via del Purgatorio, Florence

Via dell'Inferno and Via del Purgatorio
(Hell Street and Purgatory Street)
Via del Purgatorio
Florence, January 2020

“Purgatory (Latin: purgatorium, via Anglo-Norman and Old French) is, according to the belief of some Christians (mostly Catholics), an intermediate state after physical death for expiatory purification. There is disagreement among Christians whether such a state exists. Some forms of Western Christianity, particularly within Protestantism, deny its existence. Other strands of Western Christianity see purgatory as a place, perhaps filled with fire. Some concepts of Gehenna in Judaism are similar to that of purgatory.” (Purgatory, Wikipedia)

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