00:00What you are about to hear is not comfortable, it is not light.
00:03And it definitely wasn't made to please.
00:06Because there is a truth that transcends centuries, defies eras, confronts choices.
00:13And it insists on remaining standing even when the whole world decides to look the other way.
00:20From the very first moments of this story, a question imposes itself like a disturbing whisper.
00:26which grows until it becomes impossible to ignore.
00:31What if some decisions that seem purely personal could have repercussions far beyond this life?
00:38What if what we call a fresh start isn't necessarily a new beginning in the face of eternity?
00:45While the world learns to normalize ruptures, redefine promises, and transform vows into distant memories,
00:52There was one man who refused to follow that trend.
00:55A man who did not occupy stages, did not command armies, did not write laws.
01:02A silent friar, hidden among the mountains of southern Italy, whose hands had been bleeding inexplicably for decades.
01:11A man who listened to sins for endless hours and, faced with some of them,
01:16He closed the confessional door not out of coldness, but out of absolute conviction that the truth, when ignored, exacts an eternal price.
01:27San Giovanni Rotondo was more than just a city.
01:30It has become a point of convergence for destinations.
01:33People arrived carrying suitcases, secrets, guilt, and hopes.
01:38They came from far away, crossed countries, and faced lines that lasted for days.
01:43Some sought solace, others, absolution.
01:47Many simply wanted to hear what they had already decided to believe.
01:50That everything would be alright.
01:52That God would understand.
01:54That love would justify any breakup.
01:56But they didn't always hear that.
01:58Before they could even utter a word, they were often interrupted.
02:03Not out of impatience, but because of something that seemed to transcend what was visible.
02:07The Friar knew.
02:08He knew names, situations, hidden decisions, choices made in the silence of the night.
02:15And when the subject was marriage, her voice became even firmer, almost cutting.
02:21Not out of stubbornness, but out of absolute loyalty to something he claimed not to have invented.
02:27While the world talked about second chances, he talked about connections.
02:32While society celebrated new beginnings, he remembered old promises.
02:38While civil papers said it was over, he maintained that before God nothing had ended.
02:44This caused scandal, outrage, and pain.
02:47Entire families left in tears.
02:49Some called him cruel.
02:51Others are fanatics.
02:53Many said that he did not understand human suffering.
02:56But what few could perceive was that behind that severity, there was a gaze constantly fixed on something that almost no one wanted to mention.
03:07The final destination of the soul.
03:10He claimed to see what cannot be seen.
03:12Not as a metaphor, but as reality.
03:15He was talking about immediate judgments.
03:17Of consciences awakening too late.
03:21Choices that seemed small on Earth became immense after death.
03:25He did not narrate these visions in a theatrical manner.
03:28On the contrary, he did it with pain.
03:31With weight.
03:32Like someone who would have preferred never to have seen it.
03:35There were letters written years before the wounds appeared on her body.
03:40Letters in which he described souls falling.
03:42Not pushed, but drawn in by their own decisions.
03:46People who called love that which distanced them from the truth.
03:50People who believed that God would understand everything, but discovered too late that understanding does not mean approving.
04:00For him, regret was not a feeling.
04:03It was a rupture.
04:04It wasn't enough to just lament.
04:06It was necessary to abandon it.
04:08It was no use confessing on Sunday and returning to the same sin on Monday.
04:13That, he said, was not conversion.
04:15It was a joke.
04:16Therefore, when men and women approached each other after a divorce and a new marriage, their response rarely changed.
04:24He didn't ask if it had been difficult.
04:27It did not investigate whether there was happiness or suffering.
04:30He didn't consider emotions.
04:32He only asked one thing.
04:34The first spouse is still alive.
04:37If the answer was yes, the silence became heavy.
04:41He asserted that no human suffering, however real and painful, had the power to dissolve a valid sacramental bond.
04:50Neither abandonment, nor betrayal, nor distance, nor time.
04:55For him, death was the only recognized endpoint in heaven.
04:59Some tried to argue.
05:01They said they were abandoned.
05:02Those who never chose separation.
05:05They just kept moving on.
05:06He replied that the other person's sin did not invalidate their own bond.
05:10Others said that they were happy now.
05:13He argued that happiness is not a measure of truth.
05:16Some spoke of mercy.
05:18He replied that mercy only exists where there is true repentance.
05:24Many left in a fit of anger.
05:25Some returned years later.
05:28There are records of people who, after hearing his words, decided to live alone.
05:33Others remained in the same house, but in total confinement.
05:37Some returned to their first spouse.
05:39Some people cried for decades.
05:42Some people gave thanks until their last breath.
05:46Not everyone could bear the weight of that choice.
05:49There are harsh letters, accusations, accounts of profound suffering.
05:54People who claimed their lives were ruined.
05:57Others said that, without those words, they would never have thought about eternity.
06:03The Vatican itself investigated all of this.
06:05Nothing was hidden.
06:06During the canonization process, both favorable and unfavorable testimonies were gathered.
06:13Not just beautiful stories, but also the most difficult ones.
06:17Accusations of excessive strictness, lack of pastoral sensitivity, and causing family rifts.
06:25Everything was placed on the table.
06:26And yet, after decades of analysis, he was recognized as a saint.
06:32Not because he was kind.
06:34Not because it was pleasant.
06:36But because he was faithful.
06:37Meanwhile, doctors observed his open wounds for 50 years.
06:44They wouldn't heal.
06:45They did not get infected.
06:47They did not respond to any known treatment.
06:51After their death, they disappeared completely, leaving their skin intact.
06:55As if they had never existed.
06:57For some, it's a mystery.
07:00For others, it's a sign.
07:03For him, it was a burden he accepted in silence.
07:06The confessions stretched from dawn till dusk.
07:0914, 15, sometimes 18 hours a day.
07:13People took turns standing in front of that small wooden railing.
07:17Some entered confidently.
07:19They left shaken.
07:20Others entered in desperation.
07:22They left determined.
07:24He didn't promise easy miracles.
07:26He said that a healed body is worthless if the soul is lost.
07:31While many were asking for health, prosperity, quick solutions,
07:35He kept insisting on something that almost no one wanted to hear.
07:38Life is short, but eternity never ends.
07:42As the years went by, letters began to arrive.
07:45Some written with profound gratitude.
07:47Others filled with hatred.
07:49Some said, "The Lord saved me."
07:51Others were shouting,
07:53The Lord destroyed my happiness.
07:55He read them all.
07:57And he kept saying the same thing.
07:59When asked if he didn't get tired of being rejected,
08:03He replied that he preferred to be hated on earth.
08:05To lead someone to hell with false words.
08:10He said he wouldn't soften the message because it didn't belong to him.
08:14He was not the owner of the law.
08:16He was just a messenger.
08:17Decades later, the world has changed.
08:19Words have forever lost their power.
08:22Commitments have become conditional.
08:24Faith began to negotiate with comfort.
08:27Nevertheless, the echo of that friar continues to trouble consciences.
08:31provoking debates, dividing opinions.
08:34Some see it as a symbol of a bygone era.
08:37Others see it as a warning that has never ceased to be relevant.
08:40What remains unchanged is the impact.
08:44Thousands passed through that confessional.
08:46Hundreds have had their lives completely changed.
08:50Many remained unchanged, but almost no one came away indifferent.
08:53Because when someone speaks, not just to the present, but to eternity,
08:58His words never grow old.
09:00They are frightening.
09:01They accompany me.
09:02They return in moments of silence.
09:04Even after his death, letters continued to arrive at the monastery.
09:09People were asking if there was still time, if God still forgave.
09:13Whether choices made decades ago could be undone.
09:17The answers always pointed in the same direction.
09:20While life exists, the possibility of conversion remains.
09:24But conversion is not adaptation.
09:26It's real change.
09:28His last letter on the subject was dictated days before he died.
09:31A man, after 30 years, in a second marriage,
09:36He was finally free because his first wife had passed away.
09:40The Friar allowed a return to the sacraments, but not without truth.
09:45He said that those years had been lived in sin.
09:49Yes, God is merciful, but justice never disappears.
09:53That forgiveness requires recognition.
09:56True peace is born from truth, not denial.
09:5948 hours later, he left.
10:03Thousands attended the funeral.
10:05The same man whom many called harsh was mourned as a spiritual father.
10:11His tomb became a place of prayer.
10:14People still kneel there today.
10:16Not just asking for miracles, but seeking clarity.
10:19Because, deep down, the question remains open.
10:21What do we do when the truth costs us something?
10:25For some, he demanded too much.
10:27For others, he was the only one who had the courage not to lie.
10:31And perhaps that's precisely why his story is still unsettling.
10:35Because she doesn't just talk about marriage.
10:38She speaks of choices, of loyalty, of eternity.
10:41It speaks of the conflict between what we desire now and what may accompany us forever.
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