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    Exorcising a Mute by Gustave Doré, 1865. In Christianity, exorcism is the practice of casting out or getting rid of demons.In Christian practice, the person performing the exorcism, known as an exorcist, is a member of a Christian Church, or an individual thought to be graced with special powers or skills.

  3. Exorcism in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    1928 — Emma Schmidt (pseudonym Anna Ecklund) underwent a 14-day exorcism in Earling, Iowa, performed by a Catholic priest. This is the most well-documented case of alleged demonic possession in history and a minor inspiration for The Exorcist. The priest who led this exorcism was Fr. Theophilus Riesinger.

  4. Exorcism in Christianity - Wikipedia

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    In Christianity, exorcism involves the practice of casting out one or more demons from a person whom they are believed to have possessed.The person performing the exorcism, known as an exorcist, is often a member of the Christian Church, or an individual thought to be graced with special powers or skills.

  5. Exorcist - Wikipedia

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    Text previously attributed to a fourth Council of Carthage (398), now identified as a collection called Statuta Ecclesiæ Antiqua, prescribes in its seventh canon the rite of ordination of such an exorcist: the bishop is to give him the book containing the formulae of exorcism, saying, "Receive, and commit to memory, and possess the power of ...

  6. Today's Church is possessed by dogma, ideology and privilege ...

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    By verse 25, he’s performed an exorcism, which usually gets most of our attention when we read Mark 1:21-28. But what we should know by now is that the miracle is never the point of the story.

  7. International Association of Exorcists - Wikipedia

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    Within the Roman Catholic Church a priest may only perform an exorcism with the express consent of his bishop or local ordinary, [6] and only, to the extent necessary, after an examination of the patient by doctors and psychiatrists in order to determine that the affliction has no natural origin. [7]

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    It's worth noting that Blatty was inspired to write the book after hearing about a real-life exorcism — the 1949 case of "Roland Doe," who received multiple Catholic Church-administered exorcisms.

  9. Is “The Exorcist” based on a true story? All about “Roland ...

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    The Catholic Church later updated its guidelines for exorcism in 1999, listing the symptoms of demonic possession — which include unusual strength and knowledge of unknown languages, like in the ...