By all historical accounts, there is no “River of Lost Souls” running through Durango. So how is it that over the years that’s become the adopted, dramatized name of the Animas River?

DURANGO — By all historical accounts, there is no "River of Lost Souls" running through Durango. So how is it that over the years that's become the adopted, dramatized name ...

The resort’s original name comes from the Spanish explorers, who called the river that runs through here Las Animas Perdidas en Purgatorio--River of Lost Souls in Purgatory.

Praying for the Holy Souls in Purgatory--even referring to them that way, in fact--can seem like a quaint, old-fashioned, pre-Vatican II approach to Catholicism. It can feel like a made up sort of ...

LITTLE ROCK — When describing the mysterious concept called purgatory, the catechism of the Catholic Church starts with the basics. “All who die in God’s grace and friendship, but still ...

The souls in Purgatory are sure of their salvation, and they will enter heaven as soon as they are completely purified and made worthy to enjoy that presence of God which is called the Beatific ...

But inside is the Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatory, founded by priest Victor Jouet following an 1897 fire that burned a chapel of the church.