Museum of the Souls of Purgatory

Lazio · Italien · Museum

In a neo-Gothic church by the Tiber lie scorch marks that the souls of the dead are said to have left on the books and clothes of the living.

The sacristy of the church of Sacro Cuore del Suffragio on the banks of the Tiber holds one of the world's strangest museums. It was founded after a fire swept the church's chapel in 1897 and the priest Victor Jouet believed he saw a suffering face burned into the wall – a sign, he claimed, from the souls in purgatory. Jouet then travelled across Europe collecting objects on which the dead are said to have left scorch marks begging the living for prayers: handprints seared into prayer books, nightshirts and wooden boards. Among the items are the three fingerprints that the deceased Palmira Rastelli allegedly burned into a friend's prayer book in 1871.

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Museum of the Souls of Purgatory liegt in Lazio, Italien.