Theology and Purgatory

Purgatory is the purification that we undergo prior to being in the presence of God. So he would be an example of just Saint Augustine from the fifth century for the souls of the pious dead are not separated from the church, which even now is the kingdom of Christ. Otherwise there would be no remembrance made of them at the altar of God in the partaking of the body of Christ. It's true that Christians pay religious honor to the memory of the martyrs.