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, I didn’t feel tired or hungry or even thirsty. Actually, I preferred this wonderful new body filled with light, joy and happiness.”
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 which were“massive, cruel looking, deformed monsters.” There were too many to count lost souls that were “dirty, filthy, ugly each clawing over the heads and shoulders of other screaming souls, all trying somehow to escape the lake of burning fire. In the seconds that I saw their faces I beheld a heart wrenching saddness which revealed their agony at being sperated from GOD for all eternity. The deepest pain was seeing priests and bishops in hell., men of GOD who did not take their vows seriously, and others who led their flocks astray.”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; my heart cried for them, I felt sorry for them.”
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 self-hatred and bloody, vicious in-fighting. Sometimes, thousands of souls against one soul or other places it was groups of massively large demons tearing and biting their way through groups of terrified souls running this way and that. No matter where he looked the demons which came in many sizes, forms, and colors the one things that was constant was horrible suffering punctuated with ear splitting screams mixed with of all things...prayers!
That's right their were actually souls in HELL praying to GOD. Their prayers were of varied natures. Some prayed to GOD to give them one more chance, others prayed for forgiveness. Those souls who prayed for forgiveness did so because they now knew that they had wasted their lives in a fruitless endeavor of self indulgence. Others still, prayed that Hell would not be forever, they prayed that GOD would relent in HIS anger and someday release them from the infernal pit.
In purgatory, Father Maniyangat had the opportunity to speak to the suffering souls....
"There was no fighting or quarreling between souls as in hell, but they were sad, “stained” and anxious to go to heaven. They begged Father Maniyangat for his prayers and pleaded with him to tell the Saints on earth to pray for them as well."
In his ministry today, Father Maniyangat often stresses the need to pray for souls in purgatory, adding...
“It is an act of fraternal charity. They are part of our family, the Mystical Body of Christ. What goes around comes around."
“Once they are in heaven, they will be saints and then they can pray for us and their prayers are powerful.”
The great expanse of 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 tongues."
I told my guardian angel...
‘No one’s going to believe I saw all these things"
My angel replied...
‘Don’t worry about it. Many people refused to believe Jesus.’”
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...
“Come quick 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."
“If you were to die today, where would you go?”
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