The Souls of Purgatory appeared to Saint Margaret of Cortona and begged her to offer all their suffering to lessen their pain and anguish. In particular, there were two merchants who had been killed on the way and died suddenly without having restored those with whom they had dealt unjustly, deceiving them in life. Death had befallen them so unexpectedly that they had not had time to go to a priest and confess their sins.
They said that only by the Grace of God with His Merciful Compassion and with the intercession of His most precious Mother, were they able to do a last minute act of contrition, before taking their last breath and saved from eternal damnation. Now they begged him to help them, since their suffering was unbearable, to pay for the wrongs they had committed against the people who had trusted them. They told Margaret that they would not have any relief until these debts were paid on the ground. Would he go to their families and ask them to make amends for those they had cheated, giving them back all the money they had unfairly taken from them? Having imparted to our Saint where she could find them, the souls of the merchants disappeared. Margaret fulfilled her wishes and the souls never reappeared.
Margaret not only showed everlasting love and compassion for all the poor souls in purgatory, but more passionately for her deceased father and mother, the father who had rejected her and her son, and her heartless stepmother who had shown so little charity. To her. . She never stopped offering all her suffering for them; sacrificed much needed sleep; He gave to the Lord his dear and precious Holy Communions and all the Masses in which he had participated with more reverence for his release from Purgatory. The Lord listened to his little wife; He appeared to her and declared, because of her supplications, that not only had the immeasurable period of suffering diminished, but that her parents would have had to endure, through their supplication, that they had been released from Purgatory and were in Paradise. .
Was Margaret compassionate and loving to the Poor Souls in Purgatory, offering all her mortification and suffering for their liberation, because she felt like a great sinner? We do not know the most remote regions of his heart; We only know that when he was dying, he saw an Army of Souls that had been released from Purgatory forming an honor guard, a royal escort to Heaven. On his deathbed, he had been rapt with ecstasy and when he briefly regained consciousness, he shared with those around his bed how the Lord had shown him a precious army of saints to whom He said, through their prayers and mortification, that they were with Him and His father in paradise.
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