Medieval theologians, in western Europe, described the underworld (" hell ", " hades ", " infernum ") as divided into four distinct parts: Hell of the Damned ( which some call Gehenna ), Purgatory, Limbo of the Fathers or Patriarchs, and Limbo of the Infants.

The " Limbo of the Patriarchs " or " Limbo of the Fathers " ( Latin limbus patrum ) is seen as the temporary state of those who, in spite of the personal sins they may have committed, died in the friendship of God, but could not enter Heaven until redemption by Jesus Christ made it possible.

The term " Limbo of the Fathers " was a medieval name for the part of the underworld ( Hades ) where the patriarchs of the Old Testament were believed to be kept until Christ's soul descended into it by his death through crucifixion and freed them ( see Harrowing of Hell ).

The doctrine expressed by the term " Limbo of the Fathers " was taught, for instance, by Clement of Alexandria, who maintained: " It is not right that these should be condemned without trial, and that those alone who lived after the coming ( of Christ ) should have the advantage of the divine righteousness.

Medieval theologians in Western Europe described the underworld (" Hell ", " Hades ", " Infernum ") as divided into four distinct parts: Hell of the Damned ( which some call Gehenna ), Purgatory, Limbo of the Fathers or Patriarchs, and Limbo of the Infants.

Its full title, Saints and Strangers-Being the Lives of the Pilgrim Fathers & Their Families, with Their Friends & Foes: & and Account of Their Posthumous Wanderings in Limbo, Their Final Resurrection & Rise to Glory, & the Strange Pilgrimages of Plymouth Rock, is a fair description of this historical account.

When Christians pray that the angels may carry the soul of the departed to " Abraham's Bosom ", non-Orthodox Christians might mean it as heaven ; as it is taught in the West that those in the Limbo of the Fathers went to heaven after the Ascension of Jesus, and so Abraham himself is now in heaven.

Despite popular opinion, Limbo, which was elaborated upon by theologians beginning in the Middle Ages, never entered into the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, yet, at times, the church incorporated the theory in its ordinary belief.

Limbo is a theory that unbaptized but innocent souls, such as those of infants, virtuous individuals who lived before Jesus Christ was born on earth, or those that die before baptism must wait before going to heaven.

This theory was associated with but independent of the term " Limbo of Infants ", which was forged about the year 1300.

It ought also to be mentioned here that the traditional theological alternative to Limbo was not Heaven, but rather some degree of suffering in Hell.

* In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry Potter, still alive, was seen walking through Limbo with Professor Albus Dumbledore, who was dead at the time.

Voldemort's soul was also found in Limbo in the book.

Michael Belluomo, editor of Sportswear International Magazine, Oct / Nov 1987, P. 45, wrote that in 1965, Limbo, a boutique in the New York East Village, was " the first retailer to wash a new pair of jeans to get a used, worn effect, and the idea became a hit.

The wry “ Limbo in Lovelock ”, first performed in 2005 by the Hot Buttered Rum String Band, was eventually recorded on their Live in the Northeast CD ( 2007 ).

A one-shot issue titled The Last Days of the Justice Society involved most of the JSA battling the forces of evil while merged with the Norse gods in an ever-repeating Ragnarok-like Limbo was written by Thomas, with art by David Ross and Mike Gustovich ).

The Hip Hug-Her album was followed by Doin ' Our Thing and Soul Limbo.

The song “ Soul Limbo ”, featuring marimba by Terry Manning, was a big hit ( later used by the BBC as their theme for cricket coverage on both TV and, latterly, radio's “ Test Match Special ”), as was their version of “ Hang ' em High ”.

Some music from early 1999 was incorporated into the album, often unrecognisable from its original form (" In Limbo ", originally known as " Lost at Sea ", dates from this time ).

CSP was highly influential in the design of the occam programming language, and also influenced the design of programming languages such as Limbo and Go.

Jackson's performance was well received in the 1972 independent film Limbo, one of the first theatrical films to address the Vietnam War and the wives of soldiers who were POWs, MIA or killed in action ( KIA ).

The label was distributed by Cameo-Parkway Records, which at the time was the hottest label for teenage dance crazes (" The Twist ", " Limbo Rock ", "( Do ) The Bird ", " Wah-Watusi ", " Mashed Potato Time ", " Gravy ( For My Mashed Potatoes )", " Hully Gully Baby ", " Bristol Stomp ", "( Do the ) New Continental ").

A second album Bluff Limbo was scheduled to be released in mid-1994, though only 1000 copies were released.

It was then revealed that while the original Kang was dead, his constant time-traveling had caused the creation of a number of other flawed " Kangs ", and so the three stable versions of the villain form a council to eliminate the others and stop a proliferation of still more of their number from Limbo.

The Silver Surfer discovers that Volx has actually been driven insane by an empathic link to Wraithworld in Limbo-and when the Annihilators arrive there, the team is horrified to find out that after generations in Limbo, the surviving Dire Wraiths are a disease-ridden, half-starved people in constant anguish: " even our souls are worn thin ", and anyone strong is abducted into servitude by Immortus.

Civil war erupted, and when Zerthimon was killed by Gith his people fled to Limbo.

* In addition, the people of Limbo Town, including Klarion the Witch Boy, are all Sheeda-descended half-breeds.

Anyone who has done good in their life are flown from Limbo to the Gates of Heaven by a large griffin ( which might be Ziz ).

In the theology of the Catholic Church, Limbo ( Latin limbus, edge or boundary, referring to the " edge " of Hell ) is a speculative idea about the afterlife condition of those who die in Original Sin without being assigned to the Hell of the Damned.

The Limbo of Infants ( Latin limbus infantium or limbus puerorum ) is a hypothesis about the permanent status of the unbaptized who die in infancy, too young to have committed personal sins, but not having been freed from original sin.

Some who hold this theory regard the Limbo of Infants as a state of maximum natural happiness, others as one of " mildest punishment " consisting at least of privation of the beatific vision and of any hope of obtaining it.

In its 1980 instruction on children's baptism the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith stated that " with regard to children who die without having received baptism, the Church can only entrust them to the mercy of God, as indeed she does in the funeral rite established for them ," leaving all theories as to their fate, including Limbo, as viable options.

* In the final episode of the BBC time travel / cop show Ashes to Ashes ( Series 3, Episode 8 ), it is revealed that the world that Alex Drake awoke to after being shot, which Sam Tyler described and that other major characters inhabit, is a kind of Limbo, one seemingly specifically for members of the police force, who had died in violent or sudden ways, with Gene Hunt taking on a role similar to that of a Psychopomp or Charon of Greek mythology, helping " the troubled souls of Her Majesty's Constabulary " accept their deaths and move on to Heaven.

The Church has no official teaching regarding the fate of infants who die without Baptism, and theologians of the Church hold various views ( for instance, some have asserted that they go to Limbo, which has never been official Catholic doctrine ).

* A character in the film Inception, played by Ellen Page, who is the architect of a labyrinth-like dream construct and accompanies the protagonist to the underworld / unconscious here called Limbo.

Authors who have recently employed it include George Santayana, in his eminent Dialogues in Limbo ( 1926, 2nd ed.

Aided by the futuristic Rama-Tut once more — who has evolved after a journey to Limbo and a study of time into Immortus — Hawkeye, Thor, and ally Moondragon confront Kang, with the help of the Two-Gun Kid.

Now most of the Kangs have been destroyed, with only one " Prime " Kang remaining, who falls into nothingness in Limbo after being driven insane while trying to absorb the memories of the Kangs that were destroyed when Immortus tells him these make him Lord of Limbo.

The New Mutants ' best guess as to what happened was that by forcibly removing her seven-year old self from Limbo, before she had been corrupted by Belasco, then everything since then had been negated and none of it had happened, except that they still had their memories of the teenage Illyana who had not existed and of events which had not happened.

After a conflict with the necromancer Gravemoss, the Soulsword was eventually was acquired by Amanda Sefton, who would claim Illyana's mantle as Magik, and then go on to be ruler of Limbo and wielder of the Soulsword.

While in Limbo, the New Mutants encountered the Inferno Babies-mutants who were taken as infants by the government during the Inferno and were raised and trained in Limbo.

Lockheed also bonded to a lesser degree with Illyana Rasputin, who, after being abducted into the dimension of Limbo ( also known as Otherplace ) by the sorcerer Belasco, had aged into a teenager, manifested her own mutant powers, and been installed as Kitty's roommate.