Flower of Devotion

On one occasion the Lord took St. Mechtilde with Himself and showed her purgatory:
In him she saw the saint suffering all sorts of things. Some souls she saw coming out of the water, damp and wet; others were as if they had been burned in a fire, they had hideous shapes. St. Mechtilde prayed for them. At that hour the souls took the shape they had on earth, and, relieved from their sufferings, they joyfully left Purgatory.
On another occasion the Lord showed the saint purgatory. And she saw that there were as many kinds of sufferings in it as souls had indulged in transgressions during their life on earth. Those who loved pride on earth fell in purgatory as if from one puddle to another. Those who did not obey the obligatory obedience walked dejected and stooping, as if they were carrying a millstone on them. Those who sinned by gluttony and drunkenness lay stretched out on their backs, as if fainting and exhausted by hunger and thirst. Others, who indulged in sensuality, melted in the fire. And so souls repaid every unrepented sin by incurring punishments appropriate to the sins they had committed in mortality. When St. Mechtilde prayed for them, the Lord set them free.