The premiere of The Pope’s Exorcist again brought to the fore Gabriele Amorth, the official father of the diocese of Rome, who claimed to have performed more than 70,000 exorcisms.
During his 91 years, Amorth chronicled many of his working days in memoirs, biographies, interviews and even documentaries. With your statements you have not avoided controversy: you have criticized yoga, Harry Potter and many other concepts that he accused of “having evil”.
Following this line, It is worth mentioning an anecdote told by a former possessed man “accompanied” by his father who paints the character of the Italian exorcist from a league away.
First, a brief definition of exorcism: according to the RAE, a exorcism it is a “spell against the devil”. A exorcistNeedless to say, it’s the person who does it.
Word of Albert
In an interview for the newspaper La Repubblica, a former demoniac with the fictitious name Alberto said that one day Gabriele made him laugh as he was going through an alleged demonic possession.
“Do you know why the devil runs away when he sees me?”, Amorth asked Alberto, and then completed with a laugh: “Because I’m uglier than him and I scare him”.
For Alberto, this joke that Amorth made when he was going through a dark phase in his life made him understand the confidence his father had in himself in the practice he was doing.
Even Amorth kept repeating to him: “Rejoice, it will pass“
Their case
Once he retired, Alberto began to realize that he had a problem feeling that “it wasn’t him” whenever he was near a church. There were even days when waking up at night with unexplained skin lesions. Concerned, then, he called Father Amorth…
One of the first meetings between Gabriele and Alberto was anything but ordinary: the possessed, without knowing English, began to say meaningless words in that language.
After seeing it, Amorth explained that he had entered a circle of occultism and esotericism and that in this way “he had opened the door to a supernatural reality that invaded his life and his body”.
Alberto was released after six years, when in one of the sessions he no longer had any reaction. As a result, Father Amorth advised him to begin leading a life of prayer and fasting, and he gradually returned to the faith.
Who was Father Amorth?
Amorth was a renowned exorcist of the diocese of Rome who officiated as such from 1986 to 2000. He initially worked under the tutelage of Father Candide Amantiniwhich he replaced after his death.
In 1990, Gabriele founded and presided over the International Association of Exorcists, which he has written about in dozens of graphic publications such as “Tales of an exorcist”, “An exorcist tells his story” or “Exorcism and psychiatry”.
Another of her most resonant statements, besides those about yoga and Harry Potter, had to do with the idea that Adolf Hitler and the Nazis they acted possessed influenced by some evil demon in WW2.
To those who exercise the “charism of exorcism”, Amorth recommended that they be well regarded for their life of prayer, faith, acts of charity and judgment. Furthermore, he suggested relying on and trusting only God’s Word and traditional prayer, being completely detached from monetary worries, being deeply humble and not treasure the darkness.
Amorth worked as an exorcist during his pontificate John Paul II and died in 2016 at the age of 91.
Source: Clarin
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