A priest dies and comes back to life "I saw Jesus, Our Lady and Padre Pio"
A priest dies and comes back to life. Here is a letter from Father Jean Derobert. It is a certified testimony given on the occasion of the canonization of Padre Pio.
«At that time - explains Don Jean - I was working in the Army Health Service. Padre Pio, who in 1955 he had accepted me as a spiritual son, in the important turning points of my life he always sent me a note in which he assured me of his prayers and his support. So it happened before my exam at the Gregorian University of Rome, so it happened when I joined the army, so it also happened when I had to join the fighters in Algeria ».
The ticket of Padre Pio
“One evening, an FLN (Front de Libération Nationale Algérienne) commando attacked our village. I was caught too. Put in front of a door together with five other soldiers, we were shot (…). That morning I had received a note from Padre Pio with two handwritten lines: "Life is a struggle but it leads to the light" (underlined two or three times) ".
A priest dies and comes back to life: the ascent to heaven
Immediately Don Jean experienced the exit from the body. «I saw my body beside me, lying and bleeding, among the my comrades killed also. I began a curious upward ascent into a kind of tunnel. From the cloud that surrounded me I distinguished faces known and unknown. At first these faces were gloomy: they were disreputable people, sinners, not very virtuous. As I went up the faces I met became brighter ».
The meeting with the parents
“Suddenly mine thought turned to my parents. I found myself next to them in my home, in Annecy, in their room, and saw that they were sleeping. I tried to talk to them but without success. I saw the apartment and noticed that a piece of furniture had been moved. Many days later, writing to my mom, I asked her why she had moved that piece of furniture. She replied: "How do you know?". Then I thought about the Pope, Pius XII, which I knew well because I was a student in Rome, and immediately I found myself in his room. He had just got into bed. We communicated by exchanging thoughts: he was a great spiritual ».
"Spark of light"
Suddenly Don Jean finds himself in a wonderful landscape, invaded by a blue and sweet light .. There were thousands of people, all around the age of thirty. "I met someone I had known in life (...) I left this" Paradise "full of extraordinary and unknown flowers on earth, and I ascended even higher ... There I lost my nature as a man and I became a "Spark of light". I have seen many other “sparks of light” and I knew they were Saint Peter, Saint Paul, or Saint John, or another apostle, or such a saint ».
A priest dies and comes back to life: the Madonna and Jesus
“Then I saw Saint Marybeautiful beyond belief in her cloak of light. He greeted me with an unspeakable smile. Behind her was Jesus wonderfully beautiful, and even further back there was an area of light that I knew to be the Father, and into which I dived ».
The first time he saw Padre Pio after this experience, the friar said to him: “Oh! How much you gave me to do! But what you saw was very beautiful! ”.