A controversial service at Trinity College chapel was reported to have left worshippers in tears after so-called heretical claims that Jesus had a trans body - but the tabloids seem to have purposefully gotten
Purgatory weighed heavily on the minds of many medieval Christians. Each sin they committed in life meant they would spend longer in Purgatory before ascending to Heaven. For the famous poet Dante Alighieri (c. 1265–1321), Purgatory could involve great suffering, with the prideful crushed under stones and the envious having.