Word: exorcist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very much pleased with the Feb. 17 TIME article "Exorcist & Energumen" relative to the Earling, Iowa exorcism. Wish to congratulate you on your reverent treatise of same. Have been flooded with letters. . . . You may be asked about the price of pamphlet. Sells 18? by mail, eight for $1, and 100 for $8. My motive for publishing it was for its own good, not for any remuneration. I appreciate your prudent co-operation in bringing about a sane understanding regarding this case of possession...
...Anthony's Monastery of the Capuchin Friars at Marathon, Wis. last week, a wise and white-haired monk named Rev. Theophilus Riesinger went about his daily orisons and meditations, indifferent to the fact that he was being widely publicized among U. S. Catholics as a potent and mystic exorcist of demons. Publicizers were the Religious Bulletin of the University of Notre Dame, and the Catholic Register of Denver, whose 300,000 subscribers last fortnight read the following story condensed from a pamphlet called Begone Satan...