Dream of Gerontius

This poem by Saint John Henry Newman, English theologist, Catholic priest and poet of the 19th century portrays the story of a dead man's soul as it leaves from his deathbed into his final judgement. In it, Gerontius, literally translating to an old man in Greek, dies a faithful and pious death and then turns into "e;The Soul"e; that ends up into the Purgatory by God's last judgement. Very thought...