Hell and Purgatory

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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)