![Don Paul Denizot, le Purgatoire dans tous ses états.](https://montligeon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2023-09-14-don-Paul-Denizot-recteur-IMG_0254-CSanctuaire-Montligeon-1920-768x355.jpg)
Purgatory is often frightening. Yet in the Catholic tradition, it is above all a place of healing and purification. The sanctuary at Montligeon, dedicated to praying for the dead, offers a chance to rediscover this.
![Exposition Notre-Dame de Montligeon au Mont saint Michel](https://montligeon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2024-05-09-Inauguration-pelerins-Esperance-Mont-saint-Michel-IMG_6513-cSanctuaire-Notre-Dame-de-Montligeon-1080B-768x307.jpg)
Produced by Notre-Dame de Montligeon, "Pilgrims of Hope" is a new exhibition in three languages for pilgrims to the Mont Saint-Michel. Discover Christian hopeful messages with this journey in 24 steps via teachings and testimonies.
![La mort est le moment le plus important de la vie](https://montligeon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/2024-06-12-rencontre-avec-Sylvie-rencontre-avec-Sylvie-cSanctuaire-Montligeon-1080px-768x440.jpg)
No one dares think about death, yet many people came to Montligeon for the first "Preparing for death" session. Among them, Sylvie confided in us her feelings about death.
![N'attendons pas le purgatoire pour aimer](https://montligeon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2024-03-21-vitraux-Montligeon-Nord-Louis-Barillet-1920-Cenotaphe-Paul-Buguet-DJI_0294-cSanctuaire-Montligeon-1080px-4-768x432.jpg)
What happens at the moment of death? Accordint to the Church, judgment takes place when the soul separates from the body. This encourages us to learn to love and forgive right now.
![Peut-on pardonner l'impardonnable ?](https://montligeon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2023-04-12-Arc-en-ciel-du-Perche-en-Normandie-IMG_3212-CSanctuaire-Montligeon-768x512.jpg)
Melanie's life was ruined by narcissistic perverts. She wrote to the Shrine to express her incomprehension and inability to forgive. Here is her letter, along with Don Paul Denizot's answer. The fundamental question being: Can we forgive the unforgivable?
![Combien de temps va-t-on passer au purgatoire ?](https://montligeon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2024-03-21-vitraux-Montligeon-Nord-Louis-Barillet-1920-Cenotaphe-Paul-Buguet-DJI_0294-cSanctuaire-Montligeon-1080px-1-768x432.jpg)
Since purgatory is a preparatory stage to paradise, it would seem that we spend a certain amount of time there. But the most pressing question is: how much?
![Le purgatoire existe-t-il ?](https://montligeon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2024-03-21-vitraux-Montligeon-Nord-Louis-Barillet-1920-Cenotaphe-Paul-Buguet-DJI_0294-cSanctuaire-Montligeon-1080px-2-768x432.jpg)
Far from being a time to suffer God's vengeance, Purgatory is where we will be purified and learn to love
![Je n'ai pas peur de mourir](https://montligeon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2024-02-08-2024-02-08-Michele-Felix-IMG_4421-cSanctuaire-Montligeon-960px-768x307.jpg)
Michèle Félix came all the way from Belgium. She shares her tetimony: she's not afraid to die. At Montligeon, she discovered that every mass prepares us for death.
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Roxane: "Knowing that I had enrolled my late godfather at perpetual mass was a consolation for his mother."
![Pèlerins de l'espérance, c'est le thème du rassemblement des recteurs de sanctuaires de France au sanctuaire Notre-Dame de Montligeon.](https://montligeon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2024-01-31-Association-des-Recteurs-de-sanctuaires-IMG_4323-cSanctuaire-Montligeon-960px-768x432.jpg)
The actual mission of rectors in charge of shrines is to be beacons in the world, to welcome and be the first pilgrims of hope