From St. Prudentius of Tarragona's (+413) hymn "Inventor Rutili""And the guilty spirits too, in their crowds often have holiday from punishment in hell, on the night on which the Holy God returned to the world of men from the waters of Acheron, not like the morning star when it rises from ocean and first tinges the darkness with its shining torch, but a greater than the sun, restoring new day to a world saddened by the Cross of its Lord. Hell's force abates, it punishments are mild, and the people of the dead, set free from the fires, rejoices in the relaxation of its imprisonment, nor do the sulphurous rivers boil as hot as they are wont."
https://archive.org/details/prudentiuswithen01pruduoft/page/46/mode/2up
In other medieval texts, such as the "Voyage of St. Brendan" (+900AD), the idea is expressed that on the night of Holy Saturday evening (which would be the beginning of Pascha), the souls in punishment in lower Hades are given some relief, if only temporarily.
We sing this Hymn, "Inventor Rutili" on Holy Saturday night, but, in all, or most, versions of the rite I have seen, these sections were omitted from the chant in the medieval period, and only certain ones sung. The entirety of the Hymn is rather long, especially with the refrain stanzas of "Inventor Rutili".
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