# Descent into Hell ## Catechism of the Catholic Church An article in the Apostles' Creed referring to the victory over death and sin which Christ won by being "raised from the dead." Jesus, like all people, experienced death and in his soul joined the others in the realm of the dead, where he descended as Savior, proclaiming the Gospel to the spirits imprisoned there in order to free the just ones who had gone before him ([[1.2.2.5.p1r#^ccc-632|632]]).