On October 20, 1936, St. Faustina was led by an angel to the chasms of Hell. She recorded: "I, Sister Faustina, by the order of God, have visited the abysses of Hell so that I might tell souls about it and testify to its existence... The sinners there were told that their suffering would last through all eternity." (Diary 741). She described seven kinds of torture: the loss of God; perpetual remorse of conscience; the knowledge that one's condition will never change; a fire that penetrates the soul without destroying it; continual darkness with a terrible suffocating smell; the constant company of Satan; and horrible despair, hatred of God, cursing, and blasphemy. She concluded: "Let the sinner know that he will be tortured throughout all eternity, in those senses which he made use of to sin. Most of the souls there are those who disbelieved that there is a Hell." This vision was given so she could testify to the reality of eternal consequences.