Irish mystic achieves worldwide fame talking to angels

Lorna Byrne doesn't look like the kind of person who claims to see angels, which may be part of her success

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CAHIR O'DOHERTY,

Irish Voice Reporter

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Irish mystic Lorna Byrne sees angels

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All right then, they chose her. So what does it look like to see the world through her eyes?

“The first thing I always see is the light of a Guardian Angel behind everyone.” Byrne nods at a young man who is waking toward the hotel’s exit: “I see an angel walking with him. It’s just natural for me to see them.”

Guardian Angels don’t open up completely for her, Byrne explains, because it would be too much.

“They’re brighter than any other angel. If I was walking down the street and the light of everyone’s Guardian Angel was open it would blind me. It would be too much to take in.”

Well now that we know what it looks like, what does it feel like? She looks surprised by the question.

“I’ve never actually thought of this. People always ask me what it looks like. It feels normal because I don’t know anything else,” she replies.

“Sometime you get a sensation or a smell. That would happen sometimes with the soul of my husband (who has passed on). He would come in around and sometimes I would get the smell of smoke because he would smoke cigarettes.  But the angels would usually tell me he’s coming in advance.”

Byrne says that when she was a child an angel named Elijah told her that her husband would pass away before they grew old together.

“I said to him, why did you have to tell me that? It was very hard emotionally because the day I first set my eyes on him I was already in love with him, even though I didn’t want him to get the job,” Byrne recalls.

“I was so excited. It was because of what I knew -- that he would become ill. That was heartbreaking because I couldn’t tell him.”
It’s no secret that the Catholic Church is nervous of visionaries, but Byrne says she has never received an order to stop.

“I’ve had priests and nuns coming to me all my life. Just to talk to me. They have said nothing bad about me in the papers and the magazines. They have spoken very highly. I suppose that’s an acceptance in one way.”

It’s not hard to understand Byrne’s growing international celebrity. For her, the great mysteries of life are already answered, it seems. The curtain has been raised and she can see (she claims) what the rest of us just guess at.

“I wouldn’t mind if God took me right now. I would go. Because I know the place we call heaven exists,” she asserts.

“I know God exists, I know the angels exist. I know that every single human being here has a Guardian Angel. The other thing I know is that they all have a soul. So no one actually dies.”

Last year Byrne was a widow living on a widow’s pension. Now she’s making real money, so how has life changed?

“It hasn’t changed. I don’t have to worry about the electricity bill and things like that,” she says.

“I don’t go to parties. I’m not used to socializing because I never did it. Money doesn’t mean the same to me.”

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