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70 <strong>LATVIJAS</strong> <strong>UNIVERSITĀTES</strong> <strong>RAKSTI</strong>. <strong>725.</strong> <strong>sēj</strong>. Vē s t u r e<br />
the memoria of him, van der Pernow’s remembrance could be endangered and his soul<br />
could be considered damned for suffering in the purgatory or even hell.<br />
The story of Dietrich Nagel and his memoria has been less dramatic. Nagel clearly<br />
formulated the late medieval understanding of memoria in a document (1447) which<br />
preserves not only his own memoria but also remembrance of three other individuals.<br />
Nagel wrote that it is the obligation of every good Christian to remember the souls who<br />
are suffering in the purgatory. The essence of the whole late medieval understanding<br />
of memoria, as revealed here, is to be remembered after one’s death in order to escape<br />
long suffering in the purgatory. In the mentioned document Dietrich Nagel successfully<br />
constructed his own remembrance to ensure that it will be kept after his death.
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