Limbus

Limbus, the name assigned by Roman Catholic theologians to that place on the fringe of hell (Limbus patrum) in which the just who died before Christ were detained till His resurrection, and also where infants are kept who die in original sin without baptism (Limbus infantium). Limbus is not a place of torture, but of a joy imperfect, and therein unlike the joy of heaven. Infants suffer only the 'pain of loss,' and in no respect the 'pain of sense,' the most aggravated of the tortures of Hell (q.v.).