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thumb|Jesus in Limbo by Domenico Beccafumi
The unofficial term Limbo (, referring to the edge of Hell) is the afterlife condition, in medieval Catholic theology, of those who die in original sin without being assigned to the Hell of the Damned.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “limbo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.