For 35 years, witnesses They saw this priest levitate. popes kings multi doiso. The church investigated three times.
and confirmed how this is possible. This is the story of Joseph. from Cupertino, a man whom everyone They called him "donkey," which was rejected.
humiliated, expelled, but who became the most documented mystical phenomenon of Church history. 70 levitations. Registered.
Officially witnessed. by popes, nobles and inquisitors, science does not can explain. But the The documents are there.
The boy is born. in a stable, not out of romanticism, but because the family was in poverty. total.
The father, a carpenter, had lent money to an acquaintance who went bankrupt. The debt fell on He, the house was confiscated and He died before his son. to be born.
The mother gave birth. Light alone in the stable. The baby He was named Giuseppe Maria D That's it, but everyone would just call them that.
of Joseph. From childhood, Joseph was different. He walked with his mouth open, staring Towards nothing, distracted.
When he was away, the neighbors called him " "il bocallone", o Bocão, o Idiot. He couldn't learn anything. neither simple tasks, nor reading, nor bills.
Everything I tried resulted in. . .
Wrong. At age 8, an ulcer. Gangrenous disease attacked him, 5 years without Going to school, 5 years of pain.
When the wound finally It healed, José was already so It was so late that it was impossible to recover. But there was something more disturbing, From a young age, José had episodes Strangers. Suddenly, he froze, his eyes.
. . fixed in a vacuum.
How if I were in another world, fainting spells, abstractions, ecstasies that no one You understand. Your mother, woman. Strong, tougher, she tried to educate him.
telling stories of Santos, especially Saint Francis of Assisi. José listened, fascinated, and then At 17 years old, he was certain of one thing. He wanted to be a Franciscan.
He even went to. . .
Grottella convent. She asked for to enter. The friars looked at that A thin young man with a vacant stare, who barely He knew how to speak properly, and they said no.
"You don't have enough training. " "Go back home," José insisted. He searched for Capuchins in Martina.
Franca. Moved by pity, they accepted. Not as a lay brother.
Not a priest. only one servant. But 8 months Then, Joseph was expelled.
He broke dishes, dropped tools, entered ecstatic in the middle of work. He would stand there, unused, while The others worked. The friars did not.
They endured it. "You're a nuisance. Go away.
" "Although. " Joseph returned home. A His mother greeted him furiously.
"You It's a disgrace to this family. A useless person who is not even good for anything. "to become a Friar.
" There, at that moment, Joseph of Cupertino was in the background. from the well, rejected by the church, rejected considered stupid by his own mother. Too much, even for cleaning stables.
But José had a Franciscan uncle. The uncle, feeling sorry for him, interceded. He succeeded.
that the friars of grot if they accepted José back, Not as a friar, but as a servant. Manual labor, cleaning, taking care of Mule, sleep in the stable. Joseph He accepted everything with profound humility.
He didn't complain. He didn't. .
. He rebelled, he just worked and prayed. He fasted to the extreme.
He slept little. He spent hours in prayer and ecstasies They began to intensify. The friars They noticed something different about him.
It wasn't. . .
intelligence, but a purity, a dedication overall, a humility that touched the heart. In 1625, they decided to attempt something impossible, to prepare it for the order. But there was a A gigantic problem, José would need pass an oral exam and He knew nothing, absolutely nothing.
Nothing about theology, Latin, or scriptures. The friars helped him decorate. an excerpt, just a passage of They wrote scriptures and prayed because only one A miracle would save Joseph.
The day of The exam arrived. The bishop began to. .
. interrogate the candidates. He asked questions.
deep to several. They responded brilliantly. The bishop looked so I'm impressed, he said, these are Excellent.
They approve of all the others, without fail. more questions. José was among them.
too much and it was approved without having He was questioned. Coincidence? Lucky.
divine. Joseph believed it was divine. Virgin Mary who saved him.
3 years later, in 1628, came the Final exam for the priesthood. Same. history.
The bishop questioned some candidates, he found them to be very well prepared and approved all the others en bloc. Including Joseph. On March 28, 1628, at age 25, José de Cupertino was ordained a priest, the man whom everyone called donkey.
The man who had been expelled, rejected, humiliated. And at his first mass, it happened Something that no one would ever forget. Joseph He began to celebrate.
Suddenly, when pronounce the name of Jesus, his His body stiffened, his eyes widened. They closed it and he rose from. .
. on the ground, it levitated for long seconds, then remained Suspended in mid-air. In ecstasy.
In total, the witnesses were paralyzed. Shocking. The stupid priest.
had just flown through the next 35 years old. José de Cupertino Levitaria more than 70 times, all documented, all witness of. No They were private events, they weren't hallucinations, they were public levitations in front of hundreds of people under circumstances that make fraud impossible.
There were patterns. José shouted one a high-pitched, involuntary scream And then your body. .
. He stood rigidly, eyes closed, in ecstasy. In total, he floated for seconds, at Sometimes minutes, and it went down slowly.
Never It would fall when it returned if it didn't. He remembered nothing. The types Levitation patterns varied during the mass.
He would go up to the altar and stay there. suspended. In processions, upon hearing Sacred music, flying even to images of Saints In the convent garden, it levitated to the top of an olive tree, 12 m of height, and knelt on a branch.
It's so thin it shouldn't be able to support the weight. of a man. But they weren't just Friars who saw.
Nobles, kings. And even popes testified. In 1645, Pope Urban VIII wanted to know If that was true.
He called José. for a private audience. Joseph entered.
In the room, he saw an image of Maria screamed. She levitated. She flew to The image.
It remained suspended. in the air before the urban pope, "The eighth shocked," he declared, "I saw with my. .
. " with their own eyes. The Duke of Brunswick, A devout Lutheran, he went to the convent as Skeptical, he saw Joseph levitate during a procession, saw the Friar climb 5 I am in the air and land softly.
On an altar, the duke He converted to Catholicism. At that time. same day, in 1649, in Basilica of the Nativity, hundreds of The faithful saw Joseph levitate until.
. . a nativity scene at 12 m high.
He was suspended. for 15 minutes. He went down Slowly.
The crowd was ecstatic. Another famous episode, 10 workers They were trying to erect a heavy cross to The top of a mountain. No.
They were able to. Joseph, seeing the difficulty, He shouted, levitated, carrying the Cross and It put her on top. Fame It spread.
Crowds began to They came, they wanted to see the priest. Flying beings, they wanted miracles, cures, blessings. And that, ironically, became a problem.
The church became concerned not with authenticity, but with the spectacle. José was becoming a celebrity. His masses were packed.
More people came to see a show rather than for Pray. In 1638, the Inquisition Naples summoned him to interrogate him. They didn't testify, they didn't ask for testimony.
under oath. And during the interrogation itself, in front of Inquisitors, Joseph levitated, the conclusion. It was clear, the phenomenon was real.
There was no fraud, but It was disturbing, very disturbing. The solution was to isolate José. prohibited from celebrating mass in public.
It was transferred. for increasingly larger convents away, Rome, Assisi, Pietrarubia, F ossombrone. In 1653, a new investigation, same real conclusion, but more disturbing.
In 1658, the third Jesuit investigation Skeptics were sent to test They observed it. They documented it and They confirmed it; there is no natural explanation. For 10 years, José lived in near total isolation, sent finally to Osimo, a convent Closed, no visitors.
Few friars. Silence. But, even alone In his cell, Joseph continued to levitate.
The phenomenon did not depend on an audience. It didn't depend on an audience. It was something beyond his own will.
On September 18, 1663, José de Cupertino died at the age of 60. He predicted his own death and the day before, it levitated one last time. The canonization process.
It took decades, but the church had to face the facts 70 levitations. Documented. officially, witnesses under Oath, popes, kings, Nobles, commoners, inquisitors.
No evidence whatsoever of fraud. In 1753, 90 years after Upon his death, Pope Benedict XIV He beatified him in 1767. Clement XIII canonized him today.
Saint Joseph of Cupertino is the patron saint. of students in difficulty, because he, the donkey, became father against all odds. He is the patron saint of appraisers and astronauts, because it was the first Flying man documented by history.
But the scientific mystery remains. Human levitation is physically Impossible. Gravity never fails.
There is no known force that can suspend a human body in the air without support and still, 70 times hundreds of Witnesses saw it. They will document it. They swore, under penalty of excommunication, that it was true.
