A famous Catholic priest who was formally trained as an exorcist is recounting how he came face to face with the devil.
Though he is now deceased, the story of Father Gabriel Amorth has been captured in a new memoir penned by author Marcello Stanzione. In The Devil Is Afraid of Me: The Life and Work of the World’s Most Famous Exorcist, Stanzione describes the life of this priest in Rome, who is said to have performed over 60,000 exorcisms over the course of his 30 years as an exorcist priest.
During one such exorcism in 1997, Amorth reportedly encountered not just a demon but Satan.
The afflicted young man came into a small room where Amorth ministered to people and the priest felt confronted by evil.
“His curses and threats were aimed solely at the exorcist; then he began spitting at him and preparing to attack him physically,” Stanzione recounted in the book. “Screaming and howling, the demon burst forth and looked straight at him, drooling saliva from the young man’s mouth.”
Amorth then rebuked the foul spirit and demanded that it tell him its name.
The man glared at the priest and replied, snarling: “I am Lucifer.”
The priest continued to pray and recited verses of the Roman Rite of Exorcism but the demon “resumed his shrieks, making the possessed turn his head back and his eyes roll” and the demonized man “remained like this with his back arched for a quarter of an hour.”
As the exorcism session went on, “the room became extremely cold and ice crystals formed on the windows and the walls.”
The young man’s body became so stiff that he became hard and started levitating, hovering three feet in the air, as the priest continued to command that the demonic spirit leave the man.
SOURCE: Christian Post, Brandon Showalter
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