A short visit to the Purgatory Museum

In Rome, next to the sacristy of the Church of the Sacred Heart by Suffrage of Souls, it is located the so-called Purgatory Museum, which was formerly called the Christian Museum of the Beyond and used to have the first collection of evidence of the presence of disincarnated spirits at work in the physical world, gathered by the priest Vitor Jouet, who disincarnated in 1902. This is the theme of the especial called “Purgatory Museum and the Spirit Immortality” written by the physician and writer Americo Domingos Nunes Filho, from Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Brazil. The article is one of the highlights of this edition.

Martinho de Mendonça Filho, who is our interviewee, was born in Poços de Caldas (MG), where he lives. From a spirit family since his paternal grandparents and economist of profession, he participates in the activities of the Spirit Group of Samaritans, in his city, which he is responsible for public meetings on Sundays. In the interview, which is one of the highlights of this issue, he establishes an interesting correlation between Spiritism and the practices of early Christianity.

It happened on October 27-28 in Porto, Portugal, the VI Medicine and Spirituality Seminar under the assistance of the Spirit-Physician Association from the North of Portugal. Its main content was the theme “Thought, Conscience and Spirituality”. The traditional event took place at the Vilar Diocesan House. José Lucas, our collaborator, tells us how it was.