Miracles Often Happen

About the Book

The author relates how in 1959 he joined the Franciscan Order as a Lay Brother, and how, after 15 year’s service, he decided it was God’s will for him to leave the Order to marry his wife, Margaret. In February 1998, when he was 65, he was afflicted with cancer of the throat. After an operation and chemotherapy, it was decided that no further treatment was possible, and he was taken into the Alexian Brother’s Care Home expecting to die. After a ‘near death’ experience, in which he had a vision of hell, he emerged a changed man and went on to make a full recovery.

Albert attributed his remarkable recovery to the intercession of the Divine Mercy of Jesus, and resolved to spend the rest of his life spreading this devotion, giving talks and Jesus, and resolved to spend the rest of his life spreading this devotion, giving talks and starting several Prayer groups, where the divine Mercy Devotees, give their accounts of witness to the many remarkable events that have occurred, and still do occur, in answer to prayer, since the foundation of these prayer groups.

About the Author

Albert Jessop was born in London on 12th November 1933. The eldest of five children, he was by his own report, a very mischievous child, and one of his early escapades resulted in a lead accumulator falling on his head, and Albert spending 18 months in hospital. The accident caused him to fall behind at school and his parents decided to send him to a private boarding school run by the sisters of the community, at Sambourne, Worcester, where the religious teaching of the Sisters influenced him greatly.

On leaving school, he spent two years in the Army, and then 15 years as a Franciscan Brother. He left the Order in 1974 and worked as a maintenance man at the Alexian Brothers Care Centre in Manchester, until he was struck down with cancer of the throat in 1998. He was not expected to live, but made a recovery that he considers miraculous. This left him with a great devotion to the Divine Mercy and works hard to spread the devotion wherever he can. Albert is now retired and has been married to his wife, Margaret, for 25 years