THE ANGELS: THE HIGHEST CORRUPTED TO THE LOWEST

This week there was a wonderful webinar to mark the launch of The Truth about Hell, which was engrossing but most stunningly of all it was engaging. As someone who finds treatise on Hell to be mental penance, I found myself getting more educated while not wanting to turn it off. My attention was grabbed in particular by the discussion of the vision given St Frances of Rome. She was a noblewoman who had wanted to be hidden in a cloister. But her father made her marry reluctantly at age 12. She fainted 3 times at her own wedding. In the decades that followed her interior life was better than any blockbuster movie. She saw the faithful angels and her glowing Guardian Angel as well as the damned angels, and she was given spectacular visions of Purgatory, but also of Hell. 

Frances saw that the angels who were highest before the fall and closest to the Lord were then sent to the places of Hell which are lowest and furthest from the Lord after they fell. Angels from such exalted choirs as the Seraphim and Cherubim were cast into a place in perdition that was the exact opposite of the heavenly realm they had once held. 

 

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The classic painting of St. Frances of Rome was executed by Giovanni Antonio Galli.