She Saw the Dead, So the Church Sent Her to an Asylum. Then This Happened

She Saw the Dead, So the Church Sent Her to an Asylum. Then This Happened

In 1940, a sixteen-year-old girl who could neither read nor write was admitted to the psychiatric hospital in Reggio Calabria, in southern Italy. She was sent there by her bishop, on the advice of Father Agostino Gemelli, for one reason only: she said she saw the dead and spoke with them. That girl was Natuzza Evolo, the Italian mystic of Paravati whom thousands of people would visit for seventy years to receive news of their departed loved ones.

In this video we tell the story almost no one knows. We follow the confidential letters between the Bishop of Mileto and Father Gemelli, the same man who years earlier had called Padre Pio a hysteric. Then come the cross of blood that appeared on her Confirmation day, the “foretold death” in front of a crowd, and the two months she spent in the asylum under the eye of Professor Annibale Puca. Finally, we see what happened next: a diagnosis that explained nothing, phenomena that never stopped, and the doctors who observed her for the rest of her life, until her death on November 1, 2009, the Solemnity of All Saints.

⏱️ CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction: the girl sent to an asylum
01:04 A Child No One Was Expecting
03:12 The Night the Dead Came In
05:18 The Secret Letters between the Bishop and Father Gemelli
07:11 The Cross of Blood
09:06 The Day She Was Meant to Die
11:10 Inside the Asylum
13:40 “When You Marry, They’ll Go Away”
16:03 The Bishop’s Mistake
18:13 The Doctors of Good Friday
20:22 All Saints’ Day
22:47 Let Us Pray Together for Our Departed

🙏 Let us pray together for our loved ones who are no longer with us. Write the name of a departed loved one in the comments:
“Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen.”

SOURCES

Foundation “Cuore Immacolato di Maria Rifugio delle Anime”, Biographical notes on Natuzza Evolo
Renzo Allegri, «Natuzza Evolo. Il segreto di una vita», Àncora
ICSAIC, Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Calabria, entry “Evolo, Natuzza”
State Archives of Reggio Calabria, records of the Provincial Psychiatric Hospital
Tommaso Besozzi, “Natuzza dei morti”, L’Europeo, 1948
Valerio Marinelli, «Natuzza di Paravati»
Wikipedia, entry “Natuzza Evolo”

Some images in this video are reconstructions made with artificial intelligence and are labeled on screen. The facts are documented; Natuzza’s experiences are reported according to her own testimony and that of those who knew her.

#NatuzzaEvolo #CatholicMystic #AllSouls

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