Anima sola
Anima sola ( Latin for "lonely soul") is the idea of a single soul in purgatory . In iconography , this poor soul is often depicted as a woman in the middle of a sea of flames, who looks up with the expression of gratitude and relief and whose chains are broken. The representation of the anima sola is associated with the promise of Our Lady on Mount Carmel , who promised Saint Simon Stock in a vision that it would become the soul of everyone who wore the brown scapular on the Saturday after his death free from purgatory.
Other contexts
The anima sola appears sporadically in pop culture , for example in the horror film Gothika . By including it in the blockbuster plot , it became a sought-after tattoo motif.
In recent years the anima sola has also been used as a symbol for the emancipation movement because of the broken chains.