The Rev Leonard Payne ( above ) had to be shocked back to life 22 times after he had a heart attack while delivering his key Sunday sermon on February 8 . A vicar had to be shocked back to life 22 times after he had a heart attack while delivering a Sunday sermon . The Rev Leonard Payne was telling how Jesus healed Peter 's mother-in-law when he collapsed at the St Nicholas Church in Wrentham , Suffolk , on February 8 . The 66-year-old said he started to find breathing difficult and was taken home by a colleague . He said : ' I felt a gripping pain on the heart and pain in my arm . 'The first responder was very fast in arriving and then the paramedics and ambulance came . 'They me took by ambulance to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital . ' I had to be shocked 22 times . I 'm very lucky to be here . ' I went about four or five times in the ambulance . ' Mr Payne had stents put into his arteries in hospital and is now recovering at his rectory home . He hopes to return to work in time for Easter . He said : ' I 'm getting out for exercise every day . ' I 'm not yet officially back to work but I shall be on Easter Sunday , the most important day of the year . ' Mr Payne said residents had been 'wonderful ' , regularly visiting him and offering him huge support . He also discovered the church had been awarded a £69,100 grant to help repair its crumbling roof - and might consider bringing forward retirement after 17 years as the local rector . Mr Payne had stents put into his arteries in hospital and is now recovering at his rectory home . He hopes to return to work at the St Nicholas Church in Wrentham , Suffolk , in time for Easter . Mr Payne was going to retire in June 2016 as he felt he needed the extra time to leave the church in a good state of repair for his successor . But he said : 'This week I 've learnt that we 've secured the grant from a Government fund for urgent church roof repairs so I can think about retiring on New Year 's Eve instead . '
Rev Leonard Payne collapsed at St Nicholas Church in Suffolk in February . Had stents put into his arteries and hopes to return to work for Easter .