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GUARDIAN ANGELS REALLY DO EXIST!

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EVERY human who walks the Earth has a guardian angel – and our PETS have them, too!

So say scholars of the afterlife, who believe we should all find comfort in the fact there are heavenly figures on hand to support and protect us.

And while it might sound outlandish, many eye- witness accounts – as well as photo evidence – make the argument impossible to ignore.

The Catholic Church is in no doubt as to the existence of angels.

Pope Francis himself once told his global congregati­on: “The doctrine on angels is not fantasist. No, it’s reality.

“How often have we heard, ‘ I should do this, I should not do this, that’s not right, be careful’? So often!

“It is the voice of our travel companion. Ask yourselves, ‘ How is my relationsh­ip with my guardian angel? Do I listen to him? Do I say good morning to him? Do I ask him to watch over me when I sleep?’

“No- one journeys alone and no- one should think that they are alone.”

One person who agrees with this more than most is New Yorker Rose Benvenuto, 79, whose story is one of the most famous of claimed encounters with a guardian angel.

In 1988, Rose swerved her car to avoid a stray dog, smashing into a barrier. Her vehicle was a twisted pile of metal and glass yet Rose, with no recollecti­on of the incident, found herself standing beside it having suffered not so much as a scratch.

When Sharon Boo of the Pawling Fire Department took official photograph­s of the carnage, a ghostly, angel- like figure was seen hovering near the wreck.

Rose said: “It’s a miracle I survived. I have an angel looking over my shoulder.”

More recently, and in the UK, Donna Ferguson described how the voice of her guardian angel saved her life after she began haemorrhag­ing blood following childbirth at a hospital in Lisburn, Co Antrim, in 1998.

Mum- of- five Donna, 49, described her divine interventi­on: “A voice kept softly telling me, ‘ Wake up, wake up!’

“It also told me to press the alarm. I wasn’t meant to die that night. As the doctor had

INTERVENTI­ON: Donna thanks a spectral voice for keeping her alive

SAVED: Photos back up Rose Benvenuto’s claim an angel saved her life suggested, it must have been my guardian angel.”

And in 2013, car crash victim Katie Lentz, 27, was left thanking a guardian angel who helped her in her hour of need.

Katie’s green Mercedes was reduced to a tangled pile of twisted metal after a drunk driver hit her head- on in a collision in Illinois, US.

Medics worked for an hour to try and free her from the carnage as she drifted in and out of consciousn­ess.

As all hope seemed lost, a mysterious priest suddenly appeared to pray for her. Within minutes Katie was being transporte­d to hospital while the man of the cloth disappeare­d into the night, leaving cops scratching their heads.

Katie, who suffered a dozen broken bones in her legs and ribs, is convinced someone was watching over her – an old, unseen friend.

Jeremiah See, a stunned member of the New London Fire Department, told reporters: “I think that this time I’ve actually witnessed a guardian angel at work.”

And it’s not just people who get supernatur­al companions – our dogs and cats do, too!

London- based spiritual expert Diana Cooper said: “Dogs have two guardian angels as opposed to the one humans are assigned. I think it’s because they need

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