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Purgatory is a much more difficult read than the Inferno. It's easy to do wrong; to learn the straight and narrow path far more difficult. But my goodness, what a beautiful sight at the end. The entrance of Beatrice stopped my cold.

I last read this 15 or so years ago, in my long agnostic phase of life, and I recall it being an incredible story. Reading it for the first time as a Catholic, I'm simply floored and the pages keep flying by. That souls actually experience this is terrifying, but that is the price paid to have this life and all we do actually matter. To be free of the cave and see the stars again, how beautiful!

On to Purgatory

This was probably my first contact with the Catholic faith, long before it ever occurred to me to accept it. A simply incredible story. It takes guts to declare yourself a bard on the level with Homer and Virgil during your own story, but to actually achieve it!

The descriptions of hell literally give me goosebumps.