Life in the afterlife told by Natuzza Evolo ...

Many years ago I was talking to a well-known charismatic priest who had founded an ecclesial group recognized by some bishops. We started talking about Natuzza Evolo and, to my surprise, the priest said that, according to him, Natuzza was doing cheap spiritism. I was very upset by this statement, for a form of respect I did not answer the famous priest but, in my heart, I immediately thought that this serious statement arose from a non-noble form of envy towards a poor illiterate woman to whom thousands of people turned every month always getting relief in the soul and body. Over the years I tried to study Natuzza's relationship with the deceased and I fully realized that Calabrian mystique was absolutely not to be considered a "medium". In fact, Natuzza does not invoke the dead asking them to come to her and …… the souls of the dead appear to her not by her decision and will, but solely by the will of the souls themselves, obviously thanks to divine permission.

When people asked her to have messages or answers to their questions from their deceased, Natuzza always replied that their desire did not depend on her, but only on God's permission and invited them to pray to the Lord so that this their wishful thinking was granted. The result was that some people received messages from their dead, and others were not answered, while Natuzza would have liked to please everyone. However, the guardian angel always informed her if such souls in the afterlife more or less needed suffrages and holy Masses.
In the history of Catholic spirituality apparitions of souls from Heaven, Purgatory and sometimes even from Hell, have taken place in the lives of numerous mystics and canonized saints. As far as Purgatory is concerned, we can mention among the many mystics: St. Gregory the Great, from which the practice of the Masses celebrated below for a month, called "Gregorian Masses", is derived; Saint Geltrude, Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint Margherita of Cortona, Saint Brigida, Saint Veronica Giuliani and, closer to us, also Saint Gemma Galgani, Saint Faustina Kowalska, Teresa Newmann, Maria Valtorta, Teresa Musco, Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, Edwige Carboni, Maria Simma and many others. It is interesting to underline that while for these mystics the apparitions of the souls of Purgatory had the aim of increasing their own faith and spurring them to greater prayers of suffrage and penance, so to hasten their entry into Paradise, in the case of Natuzza, instead, obviously besides all this, this charisma has been granted to her by God for a broad activity of consolation of the Catholic people and in a historical period in which, in catechesis and homiletics, the theme Purgatory is almost completely absent, to strengthen in Christians the faith in the survival of the soul after death and in the commitment that the militant Church must offer in favor of the suffering Church.
The dead confirmed in Natuzza the existence of Purgatory, Heaven and Hell, to which they were sent after death, as a reward or punishment for their conduct of life. Natuzza, with his visions, confirmed the pluri-millennial teaching of Catholicism, that is that immediately after death, the soul of the deceased is led by the guardian angel, in the sight of God and is perfectly judged in all the smallest details of his existence. Those who were sent to Purgatory always requested, through Natuzza, prayers, alms, suffrages and especially Holy Masses so that their penalties would be shortened.
According to Natuzza, Purgatory is not a particular place, but an inner state of the soul, who does penance "in the same earthly places where he lived and sinned", therefore also in the same houses inhabited during life. Sometimes the souls make their Purgatory even inside the churches, when the phase of greatest expiation has been overcome. Our reader should not be surprised at these statements by Natuzza, because our mystique, without knowing it, repeated things already affirmed by Pope Gregory the Great in his book of Dialogues. The sufferings of Purgatory, although alleviated by the comfort of the guardian angel, can be very harsh. As evidence of this, a singular episode happened to Natuzza: she once saw a deceased and asked him where he was. The dead man replied that he was in the flames of Purgatory, but Natuzza, seeing him serene and calm, observed that, judging by his appearance, this did not have to be true. The purging soul reiterated that the flames of Purgatory took them with them wherever they went. As he uttered these words she saw him enveloped in flames. Believing that it was his hallucination, Natuzza approached him, but was hit by the heat of the flames which caused her an annoying burn to the throat and mouth which prevented her from feeding normally for forty days and was forced to seek treatment doctor Giuseppe Domenico valente, doctor of Paravati. Natuzza has met numerous souls both illustrious and unknown. She who has always said she was ignorant also met Dante Alighieri, who revealed that she had served three hundred years of Purgatory, before being able to enter Heaven, because although she had composed under divine inspiration, the songs of the Comedy, unfortunately she had given space, in his heart, to his own personal likes and dislikes, in awarding prizes and penalties: hence the punishment of three hundred years of Purgatory, however spent in Prato Verde, without suffering any other suffering than that of the lack of God. Numerous testimonies have been collected on the encounters between Natuzza and the souls of the suffering Church.

Professor Pia Mandarino, from Cosenza, recalls: “Following the death of my brother Nicola, which occurred on January 25, 1968, I fell into a state of depression and lost my faith. I sent to Padre Pio, whom I had known some time before: "Father, I want my faith back." For reasons unknown to me I did not immediately receive the Father's reply and, in August, I went to visit Natuzza for the first time. I said to her: "I don't go to church, I don't take Communion anymore ...". Natuzza chuckled, stroked me and said to me: “Don't worry, the day will soon come when you can't do without it. Your brother is safe, and he made a martyr's death. Now he needs prayers and is in front of a picture of the Madonna on her knees praying. He suffers because he is on his knees. " Natuzza's words reassured me and, some time later, I received, through Padre Pellegrino, the reply of Padre Pio: "Your brother has been saved, but he needs suffrages". The same answer from Natuzza! As Natuzza had predicted me, I returned to the faith and to the frequency of the Mass and the sacraments. About four years ago I learned from Natuzza that Nicola went to Heaven, immediately after the first communion of his three grandchildren who, in San Giovanni Rotondo, offered their first communion for his uncle ".

Miss Antonietta Polito di Briatico on Natuzza's relationship with the afterlife bears the following testimony: “I had a quarrel with a relative of mine. A short time later, when I went to Natuzza, she put her hand on my shoulder and said to me: "Did you get into a fuss?" "And how do you know?" “That person's (deceased) brother told me. He sends you to say to try to avoid these quarrels because he suffers from it. " I hadn't mentioned Natuzza about this at all and she couldn't have known it from anyone. Exactly named me the person with whom I had quarreled. Another time Natuzza told me about this same deceased that he was happy because his sister had ordered him to have Gregorian masses. "But who told you that?" He asked, and she: "The deceased". A long time ago I had asked her about my father, Vincenzo Polito, who died in 1916. He asked me if I had a picture of him, but I said no, because at that time they still weren't doing it with us. The next time I went to her, she informed me that she had been in heaven for a long time, because she went to church morning and evening. I didn't know about this habit, because when my father died I was just two years old. then my mother asked me to confirm it ".
Mrs. Teresa Romeo of Melito Portosalvo said: “On September 5, 1980 my aunt died. On the same day as the funeral, a friend of mine went to Natuzza and asked for news of the deceased. "She's safe!" He replied. When forty days had passed, I went to Natuzza, but I had forgotten about my aunt and had not brought her photo with me, to show it to Natuzza. But this one, as soon as she saw me, said to me: “O Teresa, do you know who I saw yesterday? Your aunt, that old woman who died last (Natuzza had never known her in life) and said to me “I am Teresa's aunt. Tell her that I am happy with her and with what she has done for me, that I receive all the suffrages she sends me and that I pray for her. I purified myself on earth. " This aunt of mine, when she died, was blind and paralyzed in bed. "

Ms. Anna Maiolo residing in Gallico Superiore says: "When I went to Natuzza for the first time, after the death of my son, she said to me:" Your son is in a place of penance, as will happen to all of us. Blessed is he who can go to Purgatory, because there are some who go to Hell. He needs suffrages, he receives them, but he needs many suffrages! ". I then had various things done for my son: I had many masses celebrated, I had a statue of Our Lady Help of Christians made for the Sisters, I bought a chalice and a monstrance in his memory. When I returned to Natuzza she said to me: "Your son doesn't need anything!". "But how, Natuzza, the other time you told me he needed a lot of suffrages!". "All you have done is enough!", He replied. I had not informed her of what I had done for him. Always Ms. Maiolo testifies: “On December 7, 1981, the eve of the Immaculate Conception, after the Novena, I returned to my home, accompanied by a friend of mine, Mrs. Anna Giordano. In church I prayed to Jesus and Our Lady, saying to them: "My Jesus, my Madonna, give me a sign when my son enters heaven". Arriving near my house, while I was about to greet my friend, suddenly, I saw in the sky, above the house, a bright globe, the size of the moon, which moved, and disappeared in a few seconds. It seemed to me that it had a blue trail. "Mamma mia, what is it?" Exclaimed Signora Giordano, as scared as me. I ran inside to call my daughter but the phenomenon had already ceased. The next day I called the Reggio Calabria Geophysical Observatory, asking if there had been any atmospheric phenomenon, or some large shooting star, the night before, but they replied that they had not observed anything. "You saw a plane," they said, but what my friend and I had seen had nothing to do with planes: it was a bright sphere similar to the moon. The following December 30 I went with my daughter to Natuzza, I told her the fact, and she explained to me thus: "It was a manifestation of your son who entered heaven". My son had died on November 1, 1977 and had therefore entered heaven on December 7, 1981. Before this episode, Natuzza had always assured me that he was fine, so much so that, if I had seen him in the place where he was, I would certainly have said to him: "My son, stay there too" and that he always prayed for my resignation . When I said to Natuzza: "But he had not yet confirmed", she approached me, and speaking to me with her face, as she does, with the brightness of her eyes, she replied: "But he was pure in heart!".

Professor Antonio Granata, professor at the University of Cosenza, brings his other experience with the Calabrian mystic: "On Tuesday 8 June 1982, during an interview, I show Natuzza the photographs of two of my aunts, named Fortunata and Flora, who died for a couple of years and to which I have been very fond. We exchanged these sentences: “These are two of my aunts who have been dead for a few years. Where are?". "I'm in a good place." "I'm in heaven?". “One (indicating Aunt Fortunata) is in Prato Verde, the other (indicating Aunt Flora) is kneeling before the painting of the Madonna. However, both are safe. " "Do they need prayers?" "You can help them shorten their waiting period" and, foreseeing my further question, he adds: "And how can you help them? Here: reciting some Rosary, some prayers during the day, making some communion, or if you do some good work you dedicate it to them ". Professor Granata continues in his story: “In the first days of the following July I make a pilgrimage to Assisi with Franciscan friars and I come into contact with the reality of the indulgence of the Porziuncola that I had known superficially for years (in fact, many times I had already visited the Porziuncola) but to which I did not attach any particular meaning by not having regained faith. But now a plenary indulgence seemed to me an amazing thing, "from the other world", and I immediately decide to make money for my aunts. Strangely, as far as I am informed, I cannot get clear information on the correct practice to follow: I think it can be profitable in every day of the year and in fact I do during that pilgrimage asking for both my aunts. Fortunately, a few weeks later, in my parish, I find the correct practice in the sheet of Sunday Mass, to be carried out between 1st and 2nd August and for one person only. On August 1, 1982, after various vicissitudes (it is not easy to confess and communicate in August!), I ask for an indulgence for Aunt Fortunata. Wednesday, September 1, 1982, I return from Natuzza and showing her photos of my aunts I mention the answers you gave me previously and my request for the indulgence of the Porziuncola. Natuzza repeats to herself: "The indulgence of the Porziuncola" and looking at the photos immediately replies without hesitation: "This (indicating Aunt Fortunata) is already in paradise; this (pointing to Aunt Flora) not yet ”. I am very surprised and happy and ask for confirmation: "But was it just for the indulgence?". Natuzza replies: "Yes, yes, the indulgence of the Porziuncola". I want to add that I was very amazed and comforted by this episode: amazed at how such a great grace was granted after very little effort on my part; comforted and happy that a prayer said by a poor fellow like me was heard. I feel as if my recent return to the Church has been sealed with this grace.

Dr. Franco Stilo says: “In 1985 or 1984 I went to Natuzza and I showed her the photos of my aunt and grandfather, deceased. I showed her my aunt's photo first. Natuzza, immediately, with an impressive rapidity, without even thinking about it in the slightest, brightened her face and, happily, said: "This is holy, she is in paradise with Our Lady". When he took the photo of my grandfather, he changed his expression instead, and said: "This is in great need of suffrages." I was amazed at the speed and security with which he gave the answers. Her aunt, Antonietta Stilo, born on 3.3.1932 and died on 8.12.1980 in Nicotera, was very religious since she was a child and at 19 she went to Naples to become a nun, but immediately afterwards she fell ill and was unable to continue, but she always prayed, she was very good and kind to everyone, and always offered her illness to the Lord; my grandfather Giuseppe Stilo, however, the father of his aunt, born on 5.4.1890 and died on 10.6.1973 never prayed, never went to mass, sometimes he swore and perhaps did not believe in God, while his aunt was all opposite to. Of course, Natuzza couldn't have known anything about it and I, I repeat, was amazed at the exceptional speed with which Natuzza gave me the answers ".
Professor Valerio Marinelli, a scientist author of several books on Evolo, once asked her: "Do the souls of Purgatory also suffer from the cold?". And she: “Yes, even the wind and the frost, according to the sins have a particular pain. For example, the proud, the vain and the proud are destined to be in the mud, but it is not a normal mud, it is a mud of putrefaction. Time in the afterlife is like this here, but it seems slower because of the suffering. Nobody knows the mysteries of the afterlife, and scientists know only a thousandth part of what is here in the earthly world. "
Dr. Ercole Versace of Reggio Calabria recalls: “One morning many years ago, while I, my wife and Natuzza prayed together in the chapel in Paravati, and there was no one else with us, at one point Natuzza became bright in the face and he said to me, "Doctor, did you have a brother who died when he was little?" And I: "Yes, why?". "Because it's here with us!" "Yes, and where is it?". "In a beautiful green lawn." It was about my brother Alberto, who died at fifteen, on May 21, 1940, from an appendiceal attack, while studying in Florence at the Collegio della Quercia. Natuzza added nothing else. "
Sister Bianca Cordiano of the Missionaries of the Catechism, declares: “I have asked Natuzza many times about my deceased relatives. When I asked her about my mother she immediately said to me, with an expression of joy: “She is in heaven! She was a holy woman! ". When I asked her about my father, she said, "The next time you come, I'll give you the answer." When I saw her again, Natuzza said to me: "On October 7, have a Mass celebrated for your father, because he will go up to heaven!". I was deeply affected by these words of hers, because October 7 is the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary and my father was called Rosario. Natuzza didn't know my father's name. " It is now appropriate to report a part of the 1984 interview granted by the Calabrian mystic to the well-known professor Luigi Maria Lombardi Satriani, a professor of anthropology of Marxist extraction who has always praised Natuzza Evolo, together with the illustrious teacher also the journalist Maricla Boggio interviewed Natuzza , we use the initials D. for Question and R. for answer: “D. - Natuzza, thousands of people have come to her and continue to come. What are they coming for, what needs do they tell you, what requests do they make? R. - Claims for illness, if the doctor has guessed the cure. They ask for the dead, if they are in heaven, if they are in purgatory, if they need or not, for advice. D. - And how do you answer them. For the dead, for example, when they ask you about the dead. R. - For the dead I recognize them if I saw them for example 2, 3 months before; if I saw them a year earlier I don't remember them, but if I saw them for a short time I remember them, through photography I recognize them. D. - So they show you the photograph and you can also tell where they are? R. - Yes, where they are, if they are in heaven, in purgatory, if they need, if they send a message to relatives. D. - Can you also report messages from the living, from family members to the dead? R. - Yes, even the living. D. - But when a person dies, can you immediately see it or not? R. - No, after forty days. D. - And where are the souls during these forty days? R. - They don't say where, they never talked about this. D. - And they can be in purgatory or heaven or hell? R. - Or in hell, yes. D. - Or even somewhere else? R. - They say that purgatory is done on earth, where they lived, where they committed sins. D. - You sometimes talk about the green lawn. What is Prato Verde? R. - They say it, which is the antechamber of paradise. D. - And how do you distinguish, when you see people, if they are alive or if they are dead. Because you see them simultaneously. R. - I do not always distinguish them, because many times I have happened to give the chair to a dead man because I do not distinguish whether he is alive or if he is dead. I distinguish only the souls of paradise because they are raised from the ground. The others are not, however, for the living. In fact, how many times do I give them the chair and they say to me: "I don't need it because I'm a soul from another world". And then she talks to me about the relative present because many times it happens that, when a person comes, for example, she is accompanied by her dead brother or father who tells me many things to suggest to her son. D. - Do you listen to these voices of the dead only? Don't the others in the room hear them? R.

The scientist Valerio Marinelli who, for a long time, studied the paranormal phenomena of Natuzza collecting various testimonies, recalls: "In 1985 Mrs. Jolanda Cuscianna, of Bari, instructed me to ask Natuzza about the mother Carmela Tritto, who died in September 1984. this lady had been one of Jehovah's Witnesses and her daughter was concerned about her salvation. Already Padre Pio, when his mother was still alive, had told her that she would be saved, but Signora Cuscianna wanted Natuzza's confirmation. Natuzza, to whom I did not speak of Padre Pio's response, but only said that she had been one of Jehovah's Witnesses, told me that that soul was saved, but that she needed suffrages. Signora Cuscianna prayed a lot for her mother and also made her celebrate Gregorian Masses. When asked to Natuzza a year later, she said that she had gone to heaven. "
Again Professor Marinelli recalls, regarding the issue of Purgatory: “Father Michele questioned her later on this issue, and Natuzza reiterated that indeed the sufferings of Purgatory can be very acute, so much so that we talk about flames of Purgatory, to make us understand intensity of their pain. The souls of Purgatory can be supported by living men, but not by the souls of the dead, not even by those of heaven; only the Madonna, among the souls of heaven, can help them. And during the celebration of Mass, Natuzza said to Father Michele, many souls flock to the churches, waiting for the priest's prayer to their advantage as beggars. On 1st October 1997 I had the opportunity to meet Natuzza at the Casa Anziani, in the presence of Father Michele, and I went back again with her on this subject. I asked her if it were true that the sufferings of the earth are little compared to those of Purgatory, and she replied that the penalties of Purgatory are always commensurate with the sins committed by the individual soul; that earthly sufferings, if accepted with patience and offered to God, have great value, and can greatly shorten one's Purgatory: a month of earthly suffering could avoid, for example, a year of purgatory, as happened to my mother; he reminded me of Natuzza, who with his illness before dying had spared a part of Purgatory and went almost immediately to the Prato Verde, where he does not suffer despite not yet having the beatific vision. The sufferings of Purgatory, Natuzza added, can sometimes be even more severe than those of Hell, but souls willingly bear them because they know that before, or after, they will have the eternal vision of God and are supported by this certainty; moreover, suffrages that mitigate and shorten their pains reach them. Sometimes they have the comfort of the guardian angel. However, to some soul who had seriously sinned, Natuzza said, it happened that she remained in doubt for a long time about her own salvation, standing over a precipice from where on one side there was darkness, on another the sea, and on the other the fire, and the soul did not know whether it was in Purgatory or in Hell. Only after forty years did she learn that she was saved, and she was very happy. "
The testimonies on Natuzza's visions of Purgatory are in accordance with the data of the Magisterium, moreover they constitute a precious confirmation of the truth of professed faith. Natuzza makes us understand what infinite mercy and infinite justice of God mean, which are not in conflict with each other, but harmoniously harmonize without taking anything away from mercy or justice. Natuzza often underlines the importance of prayers and suffrages for the souls of Purgatory and above all the request for celebrations of holy Masses and in this way underlines the infinite value of the blood of Christ the Redeemer. Evolo's lesson is extremely precious today in a historical period in which weak relativist thought and nihilism go crazy. Natuzza's message is a strong reminder of reality and common sense. In particular Natuzza invites to have a deep sense of sin. One of today's great misfortunes is precisely the complete loss of the sense of sin. Purging souls are in enormous numbers. This makes us understand both the mercy of God, who saves as much as possible, and the defects and shortcomings of even the best souls.
Natuzza's life served not only to help suffering souls in Purgatory, but to reinvigorate the conscience of all those who turned to her on the seriousness of sin and thus set up a much more rigorous and morally committed Christian life. Natuzza often spoke of Purgatory and this is also a great teaching because unfortunately, together with the Novissimi, the theme of Purgatory has almost completely disappeared from the preaching and teaching of many Catholic theologians. The reason is that today everyone (even homosexuals) thinks we are so good that they cannot deserve anything but Heaven! Here there is certainly the responsibility of contemporary culture which tends to deny the very concept of sin, that is, of the very reality that faith binds to Hell and Purgatory. But in the silence on Purgatory there are also some other responsibilities: the protestantisation of Catholicism. In conclusion, Natuzza's teaching on Purgatory can be extremely useful for the salvation of the soul of XNUMXst century Catholics who want to listen to it.

Taken from the pontifex site, we report what was written by Don Marcello Stanzione on the experiences of Natuzza Evolo, mystic of Paravati, who has been missing for some years, on the afterlife told by the souls who visited it in spirit.