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A book written by Father Gabriel Amorth, chief exorcist of the Vatican from 1986 until he died in 2016 (aged 91), describes his experiences as an exorcist. The film The Pope's Exorcist was inspired by Amorth's works. [35] 1928 — Emma Schmidt (pseudonym Anna Ecklund) underwent a 14-day exorcism in Earling, Iowa, performed by a Catholic priest.
The movie tells the story of Father Gabriele Amorth, the Vatican’s leading exorcist, as he goes through a series of scary and intense exorcisms, including a drawn-out exorcism involving a ...
The Pope's Exorcist grossed $20 million in the United States and Canada, and $57 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $77 million. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In the United States and Canada, The Pope's Exorcist was released alongside Renfield , Mafia Mamma , Sweetwater , and Suzume , and was projected to gross between $4–10 million from ...
Amorth was the official exorcist of the Diocese of Rome (thus the film’s title) and performed somewhere between 50,000 and 150,000 exorcisms, depending on various sources, the man himself included.
Amorth was born in Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy on 1 May 1925 into a family deeply attached to Catholicism and Catholic Action. [4] He was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1954 and was appointed an exorcist of the Diocese of Rome in June 1986, under the tutelage of Candido Amantini. [5]
Nat Segaloff's 'The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of Fear' marks the anniversary of a classic by harking back to how real the horror felt to audiences.
The Review is the successor to the original diocesan newspaper The Catholic Mirror (founded in 1833) which was published until 1908. After an interval of five and a half years, under James Cardinal Gibbons, then Archbishop of Baltimore, the Baltimore Catholic Review was initiated and later renamed with the shorter title of The Catholic Review.
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