Purgatoire River State Wildlife Area
Purgatoire means ''purgatory'' in French. It may refer to: * Purgatoire River, a river in southeastern Colorado, United States * Purgatoire Formation, a geological unit named for the river * Purgatoire River track site, a significant preservation of dinosaur trackways See also

* Purgatory (other) * Purgatorio (other) {{disambig ...
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Purgatory
Purgatory (, borrowed into English via Anglo-Norman and Old French) is, according to the belief of some Christian denominations (mostly Catholic), an intermediate state after physical death for expiatory purification. The process of purgatory is the final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment of the damned. Tradition, by reference to certain texts of scripture, sees the process as involving a cleansing fire. Some forms of Western Christianity, particularly within Protestantism, deny its existence. Other strands of Western Christianity see purgatory as a place, perhaps filled with fire. Some concepts of Gehenna in Judaism resemble those of purgatory. The word "purgatory" has come to refer to a wide range of historical and modern conceptions of postmortem suffering short of everlasting damnation. English-speakers also use the word in a non-specific sense to mean any place or condition of suffering or torment, especially one that is tempo ...
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