Ejemplos de uso de limbus
1. Limbo divides into Limbus Patrum, the temporary resting place of the souls of good persons who died before Jesus‘s resurrection, and Limbus Infantium, home for children who die without being freed from original sin (ie baptised). It is the latter that Pope Benedict XVI will abolish later today at a mass in Rome.
2. Although there is no basis for it in Scripture the traditional answer is Limbo, from the Latin limbus, meaning a hem, edge or boundary.
3. It is described as the temporary resting place of "the souls of good persons who died before the resurrection of Jesus" (limbus patrum) and the permanent home in the afterlife of "the unbaptised who die in infancy without having been freed from original sin" (limbus infantium). The most recent Catholic teaching on limbo dates back to 1'05 when Pope Pius X stated:"Children who die without being baptised go to limbo, where they don‘t enjoy God, but don‘t suffer either, because whilst carrying the original sin they don‘t deserve paradise but neither do they deserve Hell or purgatory." In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance limbo was great focus for writers and artists.