July 28, 2017
It was a Friday afternoon, around 3 PM. Father Oliveira was in the church, preparing for a couples' retreat. Suddenly, he began to hear, through interior locution, someone saying repeatedly: "September 23rd!"
The voice sometimes screamed, sometimes just spoke, but always with an expression of haste. He didn't see anything, he just heard.
He began to think about a number of possibilities, because September 23 is the birthday of a close relative, the day of St. Padre Pio and the day of his own consecration to the Holy Angel. However, nothing seemed to have anything to do with what he heard.
He asked a few times, aloud, if it was about his relative, about St. Padre Pio or about his Holy Angel, but the voice continued to say only: "September 23rd!"
He then felt a sudden urge to look back. When he turned his gaze to the door of the church, he had a visualization:
It was in the exact same place, but everything was very dark. Through the windows, he saw, outside, flashes of lightning and loud claps of thunder, as in a strong storm. Then a dark liquid began to drip out of the front windows and under the door of the church. It covered the floor, passing through the central corridor and the pews until it reached the feet of the priest, who could see more clearly that it was blood. As soon as the blood touched his feet, the vision ceased.
About this episode, he was never clear about the meaning.
Translated by Getúlio Holanda Almeida
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