In return, “the demon resumed his shrieks, making the possessed turn his head back and his eyes roll. John Paul II adorned the walls, since “demons become very irritable before him,” and Amorth always carried “two wooden crucifixes, an aspergillum for sprinkling holy water, and a vial of consecrated oil.”īut when he supposedly met the devil in Rome, Amorth said he mostly used prayer as his weapon, reciting verses of liberation from the Roman Rite of Exorcism. “Tell me your name.” The man fixed him with a glare and snarled: “I am Lucifer.” - Father Amorth's tale of how he once confronted the devil himself during one of his exorcismsĪ photo of St. He used an armchair for “less agitated patients,” a bed, and a box with “tape and belts used to tie the more robust patients.” “I have had rare cases of liberations in a few months.”įor in-person exorcisms, Amorth was usually assisted by four laymen who could escort patients to his exorcism room of about 9-feet-by-15-feet, which was situated away from the Roman streets so that “no one can hear the screams.” “I am content if, in a mildly serious case, a person is liberated within four or five years of exorcisms,” he said. He thought it just as effective to conduct his exorcisms by telephone or Skype.Īmorth said an exorcism could be anything from a simple prayer to the full-blown casting out of demons, as depicted in the 1973 Hollywood film “The Exorcist,” and noted that an exorcism is not a one-time process, but a practice that is regularly performed on a possessed person, sometimes over a period of years. Stanzione, a priest and prolific author who collaborated with Amorth on various writing projects over the past three decades, spoke with him extensively over the years about his process.Īmorth claimed his exorcisms lasted about 30 minutes on average, and he would often conduct five over the course of a morning, by appointment only, with breaks in between for paperwork. Candido Amantini and went on to found the International Association of Exorcists in 1994, where he served as its long-term president, while breaking new ground by speaking openly about his work in the Italian media. In 1986, he began an exorcism apprenticeship with Rev. Amorth said he has seen all manner of shocking behavior from his patients, and claimed that spitting has long been a tool used by demons of possession. Born in Modena, Italy, on May 1, 1925, he knew from around age 10 he was destined for the priesthood.
he was convinced he had to keep going as long as he had the strength.”Īmorth, the official exorcist for the diocese of Rome, claimed to have performed about 60,000 exorcisms before his death in 2016. He “did not expect to receive such a terrifying response,” Stanzione writes. The man fixed him with a glare and snarled: “I am Lucifer.” “Whoever you are and all your companions who possess this servant of God … I command you: Tell me your name, the day and the hour of your damnation.” “Screaming and howling, the demon burst forth and looked straight at him, drooling saliva from the young man’s mouth.”Īmorth said he returned fire with prayers and other ritual recitations, demanding that the demon reveal its name. “His curses and threats were aimed solely at the exorcist then he began spitting at him and preparing to attack him physically,” writes Marcello Stanzione in “ The Devil is Afraid Of Me: The Life and Work of the World’s Most Famous Exorcist” (Sophia Institute Press), out now. In 1997, when a young, slim peasant man was escorted into the small room where Father Gabriele Amorth conducted his exorcisms in Rome, the priest felt immediately confronted by evil.Īmorth said he asked for the help of Jesus, and the young man began to curse and spit, using English instead of his native Italian. Russell Crowe film inspired by priest who 'cast out demons' 160K times My parents tried to exorcise the demons that were ‘making me gay’Įxorcist reveals signs of demonic possession
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