Friar Daniele Natale and his story about purgatory

This is the story of Brother Daniel Natale, who after 3 hours of apparent death, tells his vision of Purgatory.

Fra Daniele was a Capuchin priest who dedicated himself to helping the wounded, burying the dead and helping the neediest during the World War II.

In 1952 in the clinic “Regina Elena” he is diagnosed with spleen cancer. The first thing he did was bring the news to his best friend, Padre Piowhich prompted him to seek treatment. So he went to Rome and met Dr. Charles Moretti.

Il medical health insurance company at first he refused to perform the operation as the disease was very advanced, but given the insistence of the friar he accepted. Fra Daniele went into a coma immediately after the operation and he died 3 days later. Relatives gathered around the body to pray. Three hours then the unthinkable happened. The friar took off the sheet, got up and began to speak.

Brother Daniel meets God

He said he saw God who looked at him as if he were looking at a son. In that moment she understood that God had always taken care of him, loving him as the only creature in the world. He realized that he had neglected that divine love and that he was sentenced to 3 hours of Purgatory for this. In purgatory he tried terrible pains, but the most terrible thing about that place was feeling far from God.

So he decided to go to one brother and to ask him to pray for him who was in Purgatory. The brother could hear his voice but could not see him. At that point the friar tried to touch him but he realized he was without a body, so he left. Suddenly there appeared to him Blessed Virgin Mary and the friar begged her to intercede with God and give him the opportunity to return to earth to live and act for the love of God.

He saw at that point too Padre Pio next to the Madonna and asked him to relieve her pains. Suddenly the Madonna smiled at him and in a moment the friar took possession of his body. He had been pardoned, his prayers had been answered.