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.