Every time I hear the word ‘Purgatory’ I feel the need to say the following:-

There is no such thing as Purgatory.

There is no mention of it in the Bible (and if people who claim to be religious actually read that book they would know).

It is a Medieval Italian construct, made up because people were asking what the point of praying for a dead person was if after death the judgement was made to send them to Hell or Heaven. And priests were making shit loads of money (still do) for paid intercessions on behalf of dead people, so they invented Purgatory as a kind of holding pen where the dead could wait while the priests and church and choir and altar boys would pray for God’s leniency. For a price.

P.s. Purgatory is also a great song by Iron Maiden from the ‘Killers’ album with Paul D’Anno.