Holy Saturday

Number 125 of the " Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church asks "What is the 'hell" into which Jesus descended?"

“This ‘hell’ was different from the hell of the damned. It was the state of all those, righteous & evil, who died before Christ. With his soul united to his divine Person Jesus went down to the just in hell who were awaiting their Redeemer so they could enter at last into the vision of God. When he had conquered by his death both death & the devil ‘who has the power of death’ (Hebrews 2:14), he freed the just who looked forward to the Redeemer & opened for them the gates of heaven.”