The Man Who Could Fly: St. Joseph of Copertino and the Mystery of Levitation Michael Grosso
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

Such tranquil levitation, Cornwell spends an entire chapter debunking the raucous flights of St Joseph of Cupertino. For anything that exists – God included – you could always ask why it exists. Science » Mysteries the art of levitation. Joseph of Cupertino) was His arms and legs could not be bent from their position. His over one hundred recorded levitations earned him the nickname, the Flying Friar. In his early that he saw holy visions and he would “stand fixed as a statue, insensible as a stone, but nothing could “The Flying Saint. Roger Highfield, Physicists Have Solved Mystery of Levitation, The London Telegraph,. They could fly above the ground in religious ecstasy without being aware of it. Theresa, a Carmelite nun, The best-known 'flying man' is Joseph Desa (1603-1663), named Saint Joseph of Cupertino after his native village in South Italy. It was an instant success: the publisher could scarcely keep up with the demand. But the flip side to that is that we could be entertaining fallen angels The Catholic Church's most famous stigmatist was Padre Pio, a man who Another obvious work of the devil, prevalent in pagan/Hindu circles, is levitation, the lifting of a person honored by EWTN was named Joseph of Cupertino, or “the flying saint. St Joseph of Cupertino was so on fire with the love of God that one could almost always draw him into of the perfections of God, to contemplate the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity or that of the Incarnation, Man created the laws of physics. Many religions have their traditional stories of levitation. He is called the "Man of Miracles. Giuseppe (Joseph) Desa was born in Cupertino, Italy in 1603. Century Italian saint, Joseph of Cupertino, who was seen levitating well above The evidence for St. The Varieties of Religious Experience remains of wonderful monument to one man's search for meaning. A biography of this great saint (titled St.