Exorcists
Exorcists
Few who saw it will ever forget the horror classic, 'The Exorcist'. But what most people don't realise is that the movie was based on a true story!
In incredible interviews, priests who performed a 1949 exorcism on a 14-year-old Maryland boy tell the galvanising story of their battle to free his soul. We trace the history of exorcism from the Middle Ages, when it was commonly practiced, to the current day.
Ancient texts and accounts reveal the secrets of the Catholic ritual of exorcism, while religious scholars explore the evidence of exorcisms in other cultures. See how many examples of "possession" are cured by modern psychiatric counselling, and meet debunkers who claim that mental illness is at the root of all such cases.
From Medieval Europe to the disturbing claims of some fundamentalist groups that use exorcism as a justification of brutal beatings of women and children, this is a captivating look at exorcism through the ages.
Format: DVD
Running time: 46 mins approx
Rating: Exempt
Region: ALL
NOTE: "There is no official public appointment of Exorcists. But however he comes to his position, the Exorcist must have official Church sanction, for he is acting in an official capacity, and any power he has over Evil Spirit can only come from those officials who belong to the substance of Jesus' Church, whether they be in the Roman Catholic, the Eastern Orthodox, or the Protestant communions. Sometimes a diocesan priest will take on an exorcism himself without asking his Bishop, but all such cases known to me have failed." page 12, A Brief Handbook Of Exorcism (Excerpt taken from Hostage to the Devil, Malachi Martin, NY, 1992).
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