Purgatory: Doctrinal, Historical, and Poetical

Purgatory is a subject that has drawn the curiosity of many a person. How shall it be? Author Mrs. J. Sadler tries to answer this question. Noting the already numerous existing doctrinal books on the subject and yet wanting to draw more people's attention she states that, «I thought the very best means I could take for that end would be to make a book chiefly of legends and of poetry, with enough of doctrinal and devotional matter to give a substantial character to the work by placing it on the solid foundations of Catholic dogma, patristic authority, and that, at the same time, of the latest divines and theologians of the Church, by selections from their published writings.»