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Limbus

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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ccording to Catholic theologians a region on the confines of Hades tenanted, the limbus patrum , by the souls of good men who died before Christ's advent, and the limbus infantium , by the souls of unbaptized infants, both of whom await there the resurrection morn to join the ransomed in heaven.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Limbus'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​l/limbus.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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