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In the late 1940s, in the United States, priests of the Catholic Church performed a series of exorcisms on an anonymous boy, documented under the pseudonym "Roland Doe" or "Robbie Mannheim". The 14-year-old boy was said to be a victim of demonic possession, and the events were recorded by the attending priest, Raymond J. Bishop.
Raymond J. Bishop (January 15, 1906 – February 19, 1978) was a Catholic priest who was one of the several involved in the case of exorcising a boy in Maryland, who allegedly was possessed after using a ouija board. The case inspired author William Peter Blatty to write his 1971 novel The Exorcist. [1]
In March 2010, he said the number had increased to 70,000. By May 2013, he said he had performed 160,000 exorcisms in the course of his ministry. [11] According to Amorth, each exorcism does not represent a victim of possession, but rather each exorcism is counted as a prayer or ritual alone; some possessed victims required hundreds of exorcisms.
Amorth was born in Modena Italy in 1925, and became an ordained Catholic priest in 1951, per Collider. More than three decades later, Amorth became a chief exorcist for the Diocese of Rome ...
A professor told him about the case of a 13-year-old Maryland boy who had recently undergone “between 20 and 30” exorcisms over two months, primarily in Missouri. In May 1949, one of the ...
William S. Bowdern (February 13, 1897 – April 25, 1983) was a Catholic priest [1] of the Society of Jesus in St. Louis, Missouri. He was the author of The Problems of Courtship and Marriage printed by Our Sunday Visitor in 1939. He was a graduate of and taught at St. Louis University High School; he also taught at Saint Louis University.
An exorcist is a person who is believed to be able to cast out the devil or other demons. This list consists of notable people who have been known or been publicly recognized as performing exorcism This list consists of notable people who have been known or been publicly recognized as performing exorcism
Walter H. Halloran SJ (September 21, 1921 – March 1, 2005) was a Catholic priest [1] of the Society of Jesus who, at the age of twenty-six, assisted in the exorcism of Roland Doe in Washington, D.C. and St. Louis, Missouri. The anonymous Doe, a thirteen-year-old Lutheran boy from Cottage City, Maryland, was allegedly possessed.