What did Jesus do on the second day?

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“Hell” is a poor translation. He “descended” to the dead, which was to those who were awaiting the Messiah - and “opened the gates of heaven” to those who were righteous.
 
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Today, as we say in the Apostles’ Creed, “He descended into hell.” In fact, Our Lord descended into the Limbo of the Fathers, where those righteous souls who had lived and died before Our Lord’s Incarnation, awaited the opening of the gates of Heaven. In what we call the Harrowing of Hell, the light of Our Lord’s presence pierced the otherwise impenetrable darkness of Limbo and scattered the confused and bewildered daemons who, up to this point, considered that they had captured forever the sou…
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1 Peter 3:18-20 For Christ also died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit; in which he went and preached to the spirits in prison, who formerly did not obey,
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He preached (Himself - who He was - and His gospel to those who had died previously.
 
Here is the section in the Catechism that speaks of His “descent into hell” and what He did while there.CCC 631-638. Very good.
 
When it was already evening, since it was the day of preparation, the day before the sabbath, Joseph of Arimathea… took him down, wrapped him in the linen cloth and laid him in a tomb that had been hewn out of the rock. Then he rolled a stone against the entrance to the tomb.
Mark 15:42,46
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He rested with his Father.
 
More in 1 Peter 4:6. Saint Peter is the only Apostle who received this knowledge via revelation, it seems.
 
He Preached the Gospel to those spirits imprisoned during the time of Noah.
Ref: 1 Peter 3 and 1 Peter 4
 
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