Limbus

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( n.) A border or margin; as, the limbus of the cornea.

(2): ( n.) Hence: Any real or imaginary place of restraint or confinement; a prison; as, to put a man in limbo.

(3): ( n.) An extramundane region where certain classes of souls were supposed to await the judgment.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

ccording to Catholic theologians a region on the confines of Hades tenanted, the limbus patrum , by the souls of good men who died before Christ's advent, and the limbus infantium , by the souls of unbaptized infants, both of whom await there the resurrection morn to join the ransomed in heaven.