Purgatory and the Means to Avoid It
Now Purgatory can be looked at from a different point of view, which without excluding the first, tends directly, however, to another end. Other books have been written with eyes primarily on the dead. This book is written with eyes on the living - the faithful on earth - and we strive to foster in them a salutary fear of the pains of Purgatory, and point out to them the means of avoiding them.