### Instruction: Q. 414. What is Purgatory?

### Response: A. Purgatory is a state in which those suffer for a time who die guilty of venial sins, or without having satisfied for the punishment due to their sins.

-- Source: Baltimore Catechism #1 / LESSON THIRTY-THIRD ON THE LAST JUDGMENT AND THE RESURRECTION, HELL, PURGATORY, AND HEAVEN / Q. 414