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Footnotes
- All quotations in this article (unless another source is mentioned) use the 1905 version of Father F. X. Schouppe’s Purgatory, published in Great Britain by Burns, Oates and Washbourne, Ltd. It is in the public domain and available through the Internet Archive. The spellings of certain words may have been Americanized.
- Most sources state that Saint Stanislaus did not become the Bishop of Krakow until 1072, after holding other important posts in the diocese. Father Schouppe has made a minor and unimportant error. Either Saint Stanislaus was in a slightly lower office, or this event happened in 1072 or later.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Offensive
- https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/05/19/cuba-s-crackdown-on-dissidents-continues-despite-us-pressure_6753621_4.html
- https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/30/editorial-what-do-democratic-socialists-want-we-took-a-look-at-their-platform/
- https://program.dsausa.org/
- https://www.newsweek.com/democratic-socialists-co-chair-sparks-bipartisan-alarm-read-full-platform-12251529