I've come to the end of von Hügel's voluminous work on Catherine of Genoa. For such outlay in erudition, it's basically an unrewarding book (for me!), but full of interesting side-lights...Curious, for instance, that Catherine, always universally cited as recognised , the most important and competent witness to the nature of Purgatory, should actually never have had a vision of it - neither as nor as , as other mystics did..Her statements are pure , analogies, based on her own spiritual experiences of suffering and bliss: "So that's what it must be like in Purgatory!"
Ida Friederike Görres