Prayers in the Past Helped in Freeing a Soul

The prayers which console us at this hour also have in the past, assisted in releasing that soul we so dearly love from tory. He then gives a couple of examples where it was reported that prayers in the future helped people in the past. The first involves saint gertrude the great, who lived in the 12 hundreds. She prayed for him a long time and when his soul appeared to her in a deformed shape, black and mournful, she implored jesus to favor and pardon this soul. So in this reported private revelation, he had foreknowledge her future prayer and gave the man the grace needed to help him. Something similar happens with sister mary dion