A priest who saw heaven, hell, and purgatory
The death experience of Father Jose Maniyangat
Fr. Jose Maniyangat is currently the pastor of St. Mary’s Mother of Mercy Catholic Church in Macclenny, Florida. Here is his personal testimony:
I was born on July 16, 1949 in Kerala, India to my parents, Joseph and Theresa Maniyangat. I am the eldest of seven children: Jose, Mary, Theresa, Lissama, Zachariah, Valsa and Tom.
At the age of fourteen, I entered St. Mary’s Minor Seminary in Thiruvalla to begin my studies for the priesthood. Four years later, I went to St. Joseph’s Pontifical Major Seminary in Alwaye, Kerala to continue my priestly formation. After completing the seven years of philosophy and theology, I was ordained a priest on January 1, 1975 to serve as a missionary in the Diocese of Thiruvalla.
On Sunday April 14, 1985, the Feast of the Divine Mercy, I was going to celebrate Mass at a mission church in the north part of Kerala, and I had a fatal accident. I was riding a motorcycle when I was hit head-on by a jeep driven by a man who was intoxicated after a Hindu festival. I was rushed to a hospital about 35 miles away. On the way, my soul came out from my body and I experienced death. Immediately, I met my Guardian Angel. I saw my body and the people who were carrying me to the hospital. I heard them crying and praying for me. At this time my angel told me: “I am going to take you to Heaven, the Lord wants to meet you and talk with you.” He also said that, on the way, he wanted to show me hell and purgatory.
Hell
First, the angel escorted me to hell. It was an awful sight! I saw Satan and the devils, an unquenchable fire of about 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, worms crawling, people screaming and fighting, others being tortured by demons. The angel told me that all these sufferings were due to unrepented mortal sins. Then, I understood that there are seven degrees of suffering or levels according to the number and kinds of mortal sins committed in their earthly lives. The souls looked very ugly, cruel and horrific. It was a fearful experience. I saw people whom I knew, but I am not allowed to reveal their identities. The sins that convicted them were mainly abortion, homosexuality, euthanasia, hatefulness, unforgiveness and sacrilege. The angel told me that if they had repented, they would have avoided hell and gone instead to purgatory. I also understood that some people who repent from these sins might be purified on earth through their sufferings. This way they can avoid purgatory and go straight to heaven.
I was surprised when I saw in hell even priests and Bishops, some of whom I never expected to see. Many of them were there because they had misled the people with false teaching and bad example.
Purgatory
After the visit to hell, my Guardian Angel escorted me to purgatory. Here too, there are seven degrees of suffering and unquenchable fire. But it is far less intense than hell and there was neither quarreling nor fighting. The main suffering of these souls is their separation from God. Some of those who are in purgatory committed numerous mortal sins, but they were reconciled with God before their death. Even though these souls are suffering, they enjoy peace and the knowledge that one day they will see God face to face.
I had a chance to communicate with the souls in purgatory. They asked me to pray for them and to tell the people to pray for them as well, so they can go to heaven quickly. When we pray for these souls, we will receive their gratitude through their prayers, and once they enter heaven, their prayers become even more meritorious.
It is difficult for me to describe how beautiful my Guardian Angel is. He is radiant and bright. He is my constant companion and helps me in all my ministries, especially my healing ministry. I experience his presence everywhere I go and I am grateful for his protection in my daily life.
Heaven
Next, my angel escorted me to heaven passing through a big dazzling white tunnel. I never experienced this much peace and joy in my life. Then immediately heaven opened up and I heard the most delightful music, which I never heard before. The angels were singing and praising God. I saw all the saints, especially the Blessed Mother and St. Joseph, and many dedicated holy Bishops and priests who were shining like stars. And when I appeared before the Lord, Jesus told me: “I want you to go back to the world. In your second life, you will be an instrument of peace and healing to My people. You will walk in a foreign land and you will speak in a foreign tongue. Everything is possible for you with My grace.” After these words, the Blessed Mother told me: “Do whatever He tells you. I will help you in your ministries.”
Words can not express the beauty of heaven. There we find so much peace and happiness, which exceed a million times our imagination. Our Lord is far more beautiful than any image can convey. His face is radiant and luminous and more beautiful than a thousand rising suns. The pictures we see in the world are only a shadow of His magnificence. The Blessed Mother was next to Jesus; She was so beautiful and radiant. None of the images we see in this world can compare with Her real beauty. Heaven is our real home; we are all created to reach heaven and enjoy God forever. Then, I came back to the world with my angel.
While my body was at the hospital, the doctor completed all examinations and I was pronounced dead. The cause of death was bleeding. My family was notified, and since they were far away, the hospital staff decided to move my dead body to the morgue. Because the hospital did not have air conditioners, they were concerned that the body would decompose quickly. As they were moving my dead body to the morgue, my soul came back to the body. I felt an excruciating pain because of so many wounds and broken bones. I began to scream, and then the people became frightened and ran away screaming. One of them approached the doctor and said: “The dead body is screaming.” The doctor came to examine the body and found that I was alive. So he said: “Father is alive, it is a miracle! Take him back to the hospital.”
Now, back at the hospital, they gave me blood transfusions and I was taken to surgery to repair the broken bones. They worked on my lower jaw, ribs, pelvic bone, wrists, and right leg. After two months, I was released from the hospital, but my orthopedic doctor said that I would never walk again. I then said to him: “The Lord who gave me my life back and sent me back to the world will heal me.” Once at home, we were all praying for a miracle. Still after a month, and with the casts removed, I was not able to move. But one day while praying I felt an extraordinary pain in my pelvic area. After a short while the pain disappeared completely and I heard a voice saying: “You are healed. Get up and walk.” I felt the peace and healing power on my body. I immediately got up and walked. I praised and thanked God for the miracle.
I reached my doctor with the news of my healing, and he was amazed. He said: “Your God is the true God. I must follow your God.” The doctor was Hindu, and he asked me to teach him about our Church. After studying the Faith, I baptized him and he became Catholic.
Following the message from my Guardian Angel, I came to the United States on November 10, 1986 as a missionary priest... Since June 1999, I have been pastor of St. Mary’s Mother of Mercy Catholic Church in Macclenny, Florida from 1989 to 1992.
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In 1992, I came to the Diocese of St. Augustine where I was first assigned to St. Matthew's Parish in Jacksonville for two years. I was then appointed Parochial Vicar of Assumption Church from 1994 to 1999. In 1997 I was incardinated as a permanent member of the Diocese. From June 1999 to June 2011, I was Pastor of St. Mary's Mother of Mercy Catholic Church in Macclenny, Florida. I also served as the Catholic Chaplain for Florida State Prison in Starke, Union Correctional Institution in Raiford and Northeast Florida State Hospital in Macclenny. On July 1, 2011 I was assigned to St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church in Orange Park, Florida. I am also the Diocesan Spiritual Director of the Legion of Mary.
On the first Saturday of each month I conduct a Eucharistic and charismatic-healing ministry at my current parish St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church in Orange Park, Florida. People come from all over the diocese, many parts of Florida and even from out of the state. I have been invited to conduct the healing ministry in other major cities of the United States including: New York, Philadelphia, Washington DC, San Jose, Dallas, Chicago, Birmingham, Denver, Boise, Idaho Falls, Hawaii, Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Poolsville; and many other countries: Ireland, Spain, Czech Republic, India, France, Portugal, Yugoslavia, Italy, Canada, Mexico, Cayman Island, and Ontario.
Through this Eucharistic-healing ministry I have seen many people healed physically, spiritually, mentally and emotionally. People with various illnesses such as: cancer, AIDs, arthritis, heart conditions, eye problems, emphysema, asthma, back pains, bad hearing and many others have been healed completely. In addition, several times during the year I conduct a special healing service for the healing of the family tree, in which the effects from ancestral sins are blocked and the person receives complete healing. Scripture says that the effects from family sins can linger around for three to five generations (Exodus Chapter 34 verse 7). So, in many cases we need generational healing. Doctors and medicines do not help to heal certain sicknesses caused by our family tree.
During the Healing ministry, many people rest in the spirit before the Blessed Sacrament and some experience renewal of the soul and healing of the body.
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A journey to heaven, hell, purgatory After a near-fatal motorcycle crash 30 years ago, priest said guardian angel showed him the afterlife James Graves OSV Newsweekly
5/7/2014
Father Jose Maniyangat is a priest in good standing in the Diocese of St. Augustine, Florida. He is an associate pastor at St. Catherine of Siena Church in Orange Park, a suburb of Jacksonville. He is the diocesan spiritual director for the Legion of Mary. And, with the blessing of Bishop Felipe Estévez, he leads a Eucharistic and charismatic healing ministry in which he leads healing missions in parishes in the United States and throughout the world.
But that isn’t all.
Father Maniyangat also says he died in a traffic accident in 1985, was taken by his guardian angel to visit heaven, hell and purgatory and came back to life to continue his ministry as a priest.
‘Out of my body’
Father Maniyangat was born in Kerala, India, in 1949, the oldest of seven children. His father was a farmer, and Malayalam was their native tongue. The family faithfully practiced the Catholic faith that St. Thomas the Apostle introduced to the country about 20 years after the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
At age 7, on the day young Jose (the Indian pronunciation sounds like Joe’s) had his first Communion, he heard an interior voice inviting him to become a priest.
He entered the junior seminary at age 14 and was ordained a priest on New Year’s Day in 1975. Because the diocese could not afford a car for Father Maniyangat, his bishop gave him a motorcycle for his use. But on April 14, 1985, when the priest was traveling to a parish mission to celebrate Mass, he was struck head-on by a drunk driver.
He experienced great freedom being liberated from the constant needs of the body.
“I didn’t miss my body one bit,” he said. “I didn’t feel tired or get hungry or thirsty.”
He met his guardian angel upon his death, a figure that was “bright, beautiful and radiant. It was so magnificent I can’t begin to describe it.”
His angel told him that he was going to meet God, but that first he wanted to show him hell and purgatory.
Heaven and hell
Hell, he said, was a sea of “unquenchable fire,” with demons “like monsters” and lost souls that were “dirty, filthy and ugly.”
He was able to see the souls, and they saw him, but they could not communicate with one another. His angel related that they were lost due to a variety of serious sins of which they had not repented. To his astonishment, he was allowed to see the souls of some people he had once known.
“They had seemed very holy on Earth, but it was hypocrisy. It was sad; I felt sorry for them,” he said.
Numbered among the lost souls were priests and bishops who were not faithful to their calling as shepherds.
He also noted a great deal of hatred and in-fighting that occurred between the eternally condemned.
In purgatory, Father Maniyangat had the opportunity to speak to the suffering souls. There was no fighting or quarrelling between souls as in hell, but they were sad, “stained” and anxious to go to heaven. They begged for his prayers.
In his ministry today, Father Maniyangat often stresses the need to pray for souls in purgatory.
“It is an act of fraternal charity. They are part of our family, the Mystical Body of Christ,” he said.
What goes around comes around, he added. “Once they are in heaven, they will be saints,” he said. “And they can pray for us and their prayers are powerful.”
Heaven “shined like the sun” and included millions of souls praising God. He met Christ, the Blessed Mother and St. Joseph.
“Our Lord told me that in my second life he had a great mission for me, and that I would work in a foreign land and speak a foreign tongue,” Father Maniyangat said.
Alive again
Back on Earth, the priest had been pronounced dead and was being taken to the morgue.
When his soul returned to his body, he felt intense pain due to his extensive injuries. He had many broken bones, had lost much blood and screamed out in pain. The attendants were terrified.
One rushed and told the doctor, “The dead body is screaming.”
Father Maniyangat was given a blood transfusion and underwent extensive surgeries. After two months in the hospital, he was sent home in a body cast. His doctor told him he’d never walk again.
Father Maniyangat prayed to be healed and received what he described as a “miraculous cure.” His astonished Hindu doctor couldn’t believe he was able to walk again, and he subsequently converted to Catholicism.
Father Maniyangat came to the United States in 1986 and became part of the Diocese of St. Augustine in 1992. His life-after-death experience has given him a different perspective than many people — and a great desire to bring people to God.
“Death can come to us at any time,” he said. “If you were to die today, where would you go?”
Believing
On his website, this statement appears in bold above the story of his out-of-body experience:
“Neither the Diocese of St. Augustine, nor any other Catholic Church authorities have investigated, approved or in any way endorsed the factual or theological contents of the Father Jose Story.”
Some believe the story of his visit to the hereafter; others don’t.
“I told my guardian angel, ‘No one’s going to believe I saw all these things,’” Father Maniyangat said. “My angel replied, ‘Don’t worry about it. Many people refused to believe Jesus.’”
Linda Chattaway of Orange Park is a believer. She worked with Father Maniyangat as a parish secretary and now maintains his website.
“It’s a private revelation, so it’s up to you if you want to believe it or not,” she said. “I do, because I’ve seen the fruits of his ministry, both miraculous healings and, more importantly, many people coming to the Faith.”
Chattaway said Father Maniyangat was faithful to Church authorities and not only “talks the talk, but walks the walk.”
“Father tells people to pray, fast and go to confession,” she said. “He does all these things himself.”
Jennifer Carbajal of Middleburg, Florida, first began attending Father Maniyangat’s monthly healing Masses a decade ago. She, too, has witnessed conversions and healings as well as a revival of her faith.
“Before I was living my life for myself,” Carbajal told OSV. “Now, I want to live every day for Jesus.”
The humble, down-to-earth priest “gives all the glory to Jesus,” she added, “and wants to do all he can to bring people to heaven.”
Jim Graves writes from California.
Church Teaching
There is no Church doctrine on private revelations (such as Father Maniyangat’s), meaning Catholics are free to believe or dismiss them. Here is what the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches (No. 67):
Throughout the ages, there have been so-called “private” revelations, some of which have been recognized by the authority of the Church. They do not belong, however, to the deposit of faith. It is not their role to improve or complete Christ’s definitive Revelation, but to help live more fully by it in a certain period of history. Guided by the Magisterium of the Church, the sensus fidelium knows how to discern and welcome in these revelations whatever constitutes an authentic call of Christ or his saints to the Church.
Christian faith cannot accept “revelations” that claim to surpass or correct the Revelation of which Christ is the fulfillment, as is the case in certain non-Christian religions and also in certain recent sects which base themselves on such “revelations.
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A journey to heaven, hell, purgatory After a near-fatal motorcycle crash 30 years ago, priest said guardian angel showed him the afterlife
James Graves
OSV Newsweekly
5/7/2014
Father Jose Maniyangat is a priest in good standing in the Diocese of St. Augustine, Florida. He is an associate pastor at St. Catherine of Siena Church in Orange Park, a suburb of Jacksonville. He is the diocesan spiritual director for the Legion of Mary. And, with the blessing of Bishop Felipe Estévez, he leads a Eucharistic and charismatic healing ministry in which he leads healing missions in parishes in the United States and throughout the world.
But that isn’t all.
Father Maniyangat also says he died in a traffic accident in 1985, was taken by his guardian angel to visit heaven, hell and purgatory and came back to life to continue his ministry as a priest.
‘Out of my body’
Father Maniyangat was born in Kerala, India, in 1949, the oldest of seven children. His father was a farmer, and Malayalam was their native tongue. The family faithfully practiced the Catholic faith that St. Thomas the Apostle introduced to the country about 20 years after the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
At age 7, on the day young Jose (the Indian pronunciation sounds like Joe’s) had his first Communion, he heard an interior voice inviting him to become a priest.
He entered the junior seminary at age 14 and was ordained a priest on New Year’s Day in 1975. Because the diocese could not afford a car for Father Maniyangat, his bishop gave him a motorcycle for his use. But on April 14, 1985, when the priest was traveling to a parish mission to celebrate Mass, he was struck head-on by a drunk driver.
He experienced great freedom being liberated from the constant needs of the body.
“I didn’t miss my body one bit,” he said. “I didn’t feel tired or get hungry or thirsty.”
He met his guardian angel upon his death, a figure that was “bright, beautiful and radiant. It was so magnificent I can’t begin to describe it.”
His angel told him that he was going to meet God, but that first he wanted to show him hell and purgatory.
Heaven and hell
Hell, he said, was a sea of “unquenchable fire,” with demons “like monsters” and lost souls that were “dirty, filthy and ugly.”
He was able to see the souls, and they saw him, but they could not communicate with one another. His angel related that they were lost due to a variety of serious sins of which they had not repented. To his astonishment, he was allowed to see the souls of some people he had once known.
“They had seemed very holy on Earth, but it was hypocrisy. It was sad; I felt sorry for them,” he said.
Numbered among the lost souls were priests and bishops who were not faithful to their calling as shepherds.
He also noted a great deal of hatred and in-fighting that occurred between the eternally condemned.
In purgatory, Father Maniyangat had the opportunity to speak to the suffering souls. There was no fighting or quarrelling between souls as in hell, but they were sad, “stained” and anxious to go to heaven. They begged for his prayers.
In his ministry today, Father Maniyangat often stresses the need to pray for souls in purgatory.
“It is an act of fraternal charity. They are part of our family, the Mystical Body of Christ,” he said.
What goes around comes around, he added. “Once they are in heaven, they will be saints,” he said. “And they can pray for us and their prayers are powerful.”
Heaven “shined like the sun” and included millions of souls praising God. He met Christ, the Blessed Mother and St. Joseph.
“Our Lord told me that in my second life he had a great mission for me, and that I would work in a foreign land and speak a foreign tongue,” Father Maniyangat said.
Alive again
Back on Earth, the priest had been pronounced dead and was being taken to the morgue.
When his soul returned to his body, he felt intense pain due to his extensive injuries. He had many broken bones, had lost much blood and screamed out in pain. The attendants were terrified.
One rushed and told the doctor, “The dead body is screaming.”
Father Maniyangat was given a blood transfusion and underwent extensive surgeries. After two months in the hospital, he was sent home in a body cast. His doctor told him he’d never walk again.
Father Maniyangat prayed to be healed and received what he described as a “miraculous cure.” His astonished Hindu doctor couldn’t believe he was able to walk again, and he subsequently converted to Catholicism.
Father Maniyangat came to the United States in 1986 and became part of the Diocese of St. Augustine in 1992. His life-after-death experience has given him a different perspective than many people — and a great desire to bring people to God.
“Death can come to us at any time,” he said. “If you were to die today, where would you go?”
Believing
On his website, this statement appears in bold above the story of his out-of-body experience:
“Neither the Diocese of St. Augustine, nor any other Catholic Church authorities have investigated, approved or in any way endorsed the factual or theological contents of the Father Jose Story.”
Some believe the story of his visit to the hereafter; others don’t.
“I told my guardian angel, ‘No one’s going to believe I saw all these things,’” Father Maniyangat said. “My angel replied, ‘Don’t worry about it. Many people refused to believe Jesus.’”
Linda Chattaway of Orange Park is a believer. She worked with Father Maniyangat as a parish secretary and now maintains his website.
“It’s a private revelation, so it’s up to you if you want to believe it or not,” she said. “I do, because I’ve seen the fruits of his ministry, both miraculous healings and, more importantly, many people coming to the Faith.”
Chattaway said Father Maniyangat was faithful to Church authorities and not only “talks the talk, but walks the walk.”
“Father tells people to pray, fast and go to confession,” she said. “He does all these things himself.”
Jennifer Carbajal of Middleburg, Florida, first began attending Father Maniyangat’s monthly healing Masses a decade ago. She, too, has witnessed conversions and healings as well as a revival of her faith.
“Before I was living my life for myself,” Carbajal told OSV. “Now, I want to live every day for Jesus.”
The humble, down-to-earth priest “gives all the glory to Jesus,” she added, “and wants to do all he can to bring people to heaven.”
Jim Graves writes from California.
Church Teaching
There is no Church doctrine on private revelations (such as Father Maniyangat’s), meaning Catholics are free to believe or dismiss them. Here is what the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches (No. 67):
Throughout the ages, there have been so-called “private” revelations, some of which have been recognized by the authority of the Church. They do not belong, however, to the deposit of faith. It is not their role to improve or complete Christ’s definitive Revelation, but to help live more fully by it in a certain period of history. Guided by the Magisterium of the Church, the sensus fidelium knows how to discern and welcome in these revelations whatever constitutes an authentic call of Christ or his saints to the Church.
Christian faith cannot accept “revelations” that claim to surpass or correct the Revelation of which Christ is the fulfillment, as is the case in certain non-Christian religions and also in certain recent sects which base themselves on such “revelations.
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《起死回生後的生命》－看見了天堂、地獄和煉獄的神父
若瑟神父是弗羅里達州瑪利亞天主教堂的本堂神父，以下是他自己的口述。我生於印度西南部的喀拉拉邦，我是七個孩子中的長子。
我十七歲那年，進入了斯熱瓦藍的聖瑪利亞小修院，開始準備成為一名神父的培育。
四年後，我去了喀拉拉邦，阿耳瓦野的聖若瑟教宗大修院繼續我的司鐸陶成。完成七年的哲學和神學的培育後，在一九七五年的一月一日，我被祝聖為神父，以一名傳教士的身份在斯熱瓦藍教區服務。
一九八五年四月十四日，禮拜天，慈悲瞻禮那天，在我去喀拉拉邦北部的傳教聖堂舉行彌撒的路上，我遇到了一個致命的意外事故。我被一個從印度教教堂參加完慶典活動後，而醉酒駕駛吉普車的男人迎面而撞，那時我正騎著摩托車。
我被急速送往距離事發地大約三十五英里的一所醫院。在去醫院的途中，我的靈魂脫離了肉身，我經歷了死亡。立刻，我遇見了我的護守天使。我看到了我的肉身以及在醫院為我而哭泣的人們。我聽到了他們為我祈禱和哭泣的聲音。就在這時，我的護守天使告訴我說：我就要帶你去天堂，主願意見你並要和你談話。他還說，在去往天堂的途中，他願意把地獄和煉獄指給我看。
【地獄】
首先，護守天使護送我去了地獄，那是一個痛苦的境域！我看見了撒旦和魔鬼，以及一種大約有兩千華氏度的不能鎮壓和熄滅的火，那極熱的火苗正在蠕動著。一些人尖叫著，爭鬥著；另一些人正承受著惡魔的折磨。我的護守天使告訴我說，這些痛苦是因著人類的罪過所應得的。然後，我認識到，在地獄中有七個等級或標準的痛苦，這是根據他們在塵世生活中所犯罪的數目和種類應該承擔的。這些靈魂看上去非常醜陋，悲慘和恐怖。
那是一個非常嚇人的經歷。我見到了我認識的人，但是我卻沒有被許可把我的身份顯示給他們。護守天使告訴我，如果他們已經悔改的話，他們將會避免地獄的懲罰而用煉獄來頂替。我還認識到，有些人通過他們在世上的磨難，如果他們從這些罪惡中悔改的話將蒙赦免。通過這個方法，他們將免去煉獄直升天堂。
很讓我感到驚奇的是，在地獄裡居然還有主教和神父，他們當中的一些是我從未預料在這裡看到的，他們當中的絕大部分是因為他們虛偽和錯誤的教導而使人們迷失了方向以及所立的惡表所招致的結果。
【煉獄】
看了地獄之後，我的護守天使護送我來到了煉獄。就在這裡也有七種程度的不可鎮壓和熄滅的火，但是，這已遠遠地比地獄的苦輕多了，在這裡既沒有不睦又沒有戰爭。這些靈魂主要的痛苦是與天主分離的苦楚。在煉獄的一部分靈魂所承擔的是他們極大的罪過，但是，在他們死之前已和天主和好了。那麼，這些靈魂通過在這裡的磨煉，他們將有一天面對面地享見天主的聖容，並享有平安和智慧。
我有一個機會和煉獄裡的靈魂溝通。他們要我為他們祈禱，並要我告訴世人要為他們努力的祈禱，如此，他們能很快的得升天堂。當我們為這些靈魂祈禱時，將得到他們的感恩，一旦他們進入了天堂，他們的祈禱將會更有力量的。
【天堂】
接下來，我的護守天使護送我通過了一條極大而眩目的白色隧道到達了天堂。在我的生命中，從未經歷過這樣的平安和喜樂。之後，天國立刻為我們開啟了，我聽到了非常令人悅耳的音樂，那是我在這之前從未聽過的。眾天使歌頌、讚美著天主。我看見了所有的聖人，特別是萬福瑪利亞和大聖若瑟，還有很多獻身的神聖的主教和神父們，他們閃閃發光有如星星。
當我出現在天主面前時，耶穌告訴我說：我要你回到世界上去，在你第二次的生命中，你將成為一個和平的使者牧放我的子民，你將踏上異國他鄉，並說異國的語言。有我的恩寵陪伴著你，任何事為你是可能的！說完這些話後，萬福瑪利亞告訴我說：做他要你做的事，我將在你的司鐸職務中助佑你。
天國的美麗是用語言難以形容和表達的。在那裡，我們能獲得更多超出我們想像的平安和喜樂。之後，我偕同我的護守天使返回了世上。
當我的身體在醫院的時候，醫生完成了全部的檢查，我被宣佈死亡。死亡的原因是出血。我的家庭得到了通知。醫院的全體職員決定把我的屍體移到太平間，因為這個醫院沒有空調，他們擔心屍體會很快腐爛。當他們把我的屍體移到太平間時，我的靈魂返回到了身體。我感受到了劇烈的疼痛，因為在我的身上有許多的傷口和損壞了的骨頭。我開始尖叫起來，然後，人們受到了驚嚇，尖叫著跑了出去。他們中的一個去告訴醫生說：「屍體尖叫起來了！醫生過來檢查了我的身體，發現我還活著。因此，醫生說：神父還活著，這是一個奇蹟啊！
關於我痊癒的事，我和醫生取得了聯繫，他感到很驚訝。他說：你的天主是真的，我必須跟隨你的天主！（這個醫生曾是印度教徒）他要我把我們的教會講解給他。經過信仰方面的培訓，學習後，我給他領了洗，成為一名天主教徒。
——2016-07-12 （若瑟神父）
作者：若瑟馬尼嚴加特神父（Fr.Jose Maniyangat）
譯者：耿永順 執事
Translated by Paul GENG
譯者說明：
我第一次發現如此的描述是中文的，在特殊的機遇中發現。出於我自身的好奇性，我查閱了英文版和法文版，我發現中文的某些翻譯有遺漏的詞或段落，因此我決定修訂已有的中文版本。
對通曉英文的讀者來說，對照英文原文也許是一件快事。翻譯是一種藝術，中文與西方語言中存在著某些不可翻譯性，因此我只能就我的有限水平與大家分享我的譯文。希望讀者給我斧正我的錯譯之處，為盼。
作者若瑟馬尼嚴加特神父現在服務於美國佛羅里達州聖女加大利納瑟納天主教堂，該堂位於傑克遜維爾 近郊奧蘭治公園安靜的社區內。
堂區地址：1649 Kingsley Avenue
Orange Park, FL 32073
對於本譯文，譯者已經給予了原作者副本
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