Exorzismen und gescheiterte Zauberei
13 dokumentierte Wunder in der Kammer „Exorzismen und gescheiterte Zauberei“ — jedes mit seinem Ort, seiner Zeit und den Quellen, die es tragen.
Exorzismen und gescheiterte Zauberei · c. 53–55 n. Chr., während der dritten Missionsreise des Paulus
Die Söhne des Skevas
In Ephesus versuchen sieben Söhne eines jüdischen Oberpriesters, einen Dämon auszutreiben, indem sie den Namen Jesu als magische Formel anrufen, ohne Glauben und ohne den Geist, der diesem Namen allein seine Macht verleiht; der Besessene überwältigt und entkleidet sie, und die erschrockene Stadt verbrennt ihre Zauberbücher. Die Episode zeigte, dass der Name Christi nicht als Zauberspruch gebraucht werden kann.
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Exorzismen und gescheiterte Zauberei · um 34–36 n. Chr., kurz nach dem Martyrium des Stephanus
Simon der Magier
Simon, ein Zauberer, der Samaria mit seiner Magie in Erstaunen versetzt hatte, kam unter der Predigt des Philippus zum Glauben und ließ sich taufen, bot dann aber Petrus und Johannes Geld an, um die Macht zu erkaufen, durch Handauflegung den Heiligen Geist zu vermitteln. Petrus wies ihn scharf zurecht, und der Name des Zauberers wurde zur Wurzel des Wortes „Simonie“, des Kaufens oder Verkaufens dessen, was allein Gott gehört.
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Exorzismen und gescheiterte Zauberei · c. 49-51 n. Chr., während der zweiten Missionsreise des Paulus
Die Wahrsagerin von Philippi
In der römischen Kolonie Philippi folgt eine Sklavin, besessen von einem Wahrsagegeist, tagelang Paulus und seinen Gefährten und verkündet wahre Worte über ihre Sendung, bis Paulus, ermüdet von der Zustimmung aus fremder Quelle, den Geist im Namen Jesu Christi austreibt; ihre Besitzer, um den Gewinn aus ihrer Wahrsagerei gebracht, lassen Paulus und Silas auspeitschen und einkerkern.
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Exorzismen und gescheiterte Zauberei · um 45-47 n. Chr., während der ersten Missionsreise des Paulus
Elymas, der Zauberer
Auf Zypern widersetzte sich der Zauberer Bar-Jesus, genannt Elymas, dem Paulus vor dem Prokonsul Sergius Paulus und suchte ihn vom Glauben abzubringen; Paulus, erfüllt vom Heiligen Geist, klagte ihn an und schlug ihn mit vorübergehender Blindheit, bemessen nach der Finsternis, die er anderen verkauft hatte, und der erstaunte Prokonsul glaubte der Lehre des Herrn.
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Exorzismen und gescheiterte Zauberei · 1. Jahrhundert n. Chr., während und nach dem galiläischen Wirken Christi
Maria Magdalena und die sieben Dämonen
Lukas und Markus berichten, dass sieben Dämonen aus Maria von Magdala wichen, die zu einer wohlhabenden Frau wurde, die den Dienst Christi unterstützte, unter dem Kreuz stand, als die meisten geflohen waren, und die erste Zeugin der Auferstehung war; die mittelalterliche westliche Tradition vermengte sie fälschlich mit der sündigen Frau aus Lukas 7 und mit Maria von Betanien, eine Vermengung, die die Kalenderreform von 1969 berichtigte.
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Exorzismen und gescheiterte Zauberei · 1884-1890
The Vision of Leo XIII
Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903) is traditionally said to have seen, during a Mass of thanksgiving in the Vatican, a vision of demonic spirits converging on Rome, and to have composed in its aftermath the short prayer to St Michael the Archangel, sent to the bishops of the world in 1886 and recited kneeling after every Low Mass until the liturgical reform of 1964. He also wrote the long Exorcism against Satan and the Apostate Angels (1890), placed in the Roman Ritual and restricted to authorised priests. The account of the vision survives only in two mid-twentieth-century recollections.
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Exorzismen und gescheiterte Zauberei · 1913–1920
The Exorcism of Piacenza
An unnamed married woman of Piacenza, mother of two, was afflicted from 23 April 1913 until 23 June 1920, when she was delivered at the friars' convent of Santa Maria di Campagna. The exorcism was ordered by Bishop Giovanni Maria Pellizzari over the hesitation of the exorcist, Fr. Pier Paolo Veronesi, attended by the hospital director Dr. Lupi under a pact of mutual honesty and taken down in shorthand by Fr. Giustino — documentation rare for 1920, transmitted through Renzo Allegri's reportage and retold by Gabriele Amorth in L'ultimo esorcista (2012).
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Exorzismen und gescheiterte Zauberei · 1981–1988
Angelo Battisti: The Man Who Fell Silent
Angelo Battisti was an official of the Vatican Secretariat of State and the administrator and first president of Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, the hospital founded by Padre Pio, whose intimate friend he was; in 1962 he personally carried to San Giovanni Rotondo the letters in which Bishop Karol Wojtyła asked Padre Pio's prayers for the dying Kraków physician Wanda Półtawska. From May 1981 until 1988 he was held by the exorcists who attended him to be demonically possessed — a case with no discoverable cause, marked by mutism, nightly violence in his home, and no reaction whatever during the rite. He was freed near Monte San Savino in 1988 without a single exorcism being performed there, by mere proximity to a parish priest he never once sought out. Fr. Gabriele Amorth reports the case in three separate books.
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Exorzismen und gescheiterte Zauberei · 1987
The Demon Who Named the Hour
On 21 February 1987, in the Antonianum complex on the Via Merulana in Rome, Fr. Gabriele Amorth performed the first exorcism of his career without his master Fr. Candido Amantini beside him. The subject was a young farm worker from the Roman countryside who in trance spoke only English, a language he did not know. At the Ritual's commanding prayer the spirit gave its name as Lucifer, the man went rigid and rose about half a metre above his chair — the only levitation Amorth reported in thirty years of the ministry — and, falling back, announced in English that it would leave on 21 June. Amorth deliberately left that week free; at the next appointment the man was calm, prayed a whole Hail Mary, and recounted that at the named hour, alone on his tractor in the fields, he had cried out and felt himself free. The two published versions of the account give different hours for the same day, a divergence recorded here rather than resolved.
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Exorzismen und gescheiterte Zauberei · 1987
The White Bird
In 1987, in an Italian parish whose diocese had no exorcist available, two prayerful priests agreed at his parents' request to bless an eleven-year-old boy who showed no abnormal signs at all. At the first prayer in the sacristy the child screamed, blasphemed and struck out; over two sessions fifteen days apart the priests used only what any priest may use — the sign of the Cross, holy water, blessed candles, incense — and invoked Our Lady, St Francis, St Benedict and St Michael. The demon called on Lucifer and on all the damned and received no help; then it cried out against Our Lady, and against a 'White Bird' it named as the most powerful of all its enemies. The boy was freed and grew up serving at Mass. Fr Gabriele Amorth, who recorded the case in 1992, suggested in a parenthesis that the Bird may have been a manifestation of the Holy Spirit.
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Exorzismen und gescheiterte Zauberei · July 1988
Laura of Cassino
In July 1988 Laura, a fourteen-year-old from Cassino in southern Lazio, was led at night by a schoolmate to a farmhouse outside the town where about ten hooded people were conducting a séance; the single hour she spent there ended, the same night, with the girl cursing, spitting at and biting her own parents. Her father, a practising Catholic, drove her to Rome before dawn and was waiting when the friars opened the Scala Santa at six; sent on to Fr. Gabriele Amorth, she was freed in roughly ten minutes and went straight down to play ball in the courtyard. Amorth recorded the case in L'ultimo esorcista (2012) as his clearest instance of a possession caught before it could take root — and of what a father's speed is worth.
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Exorzismen und gescheiterte Zauberei · 20th century
The Handkerchief of Marília
At a Catholic secondary school near Marília, in the interior of São Paulo, Brazil, an Italian missionary sister found a small folded handkerchief hidden in a pupil's schoolbook and a second one sewn inside her pillow, together with the girl's own cut hair — a hex laid on her by a woman who had promised her in marriage to her son. The sister burned the objects in the schoolyard incinerator while praying, took the girl to confession first of all, and the wasting, sleeplessness and failing schoolwork ended. Recorded by Gabriele Amorth as the testimony of the sister herself, who says she had never before believed such things were real.
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Exorzismen und gescheiterte Zauberei · 1991–1999
Freed at Lourdes
In May 1991 a widow from Campania, called only Federica in the published account, brought her two adult sons — Pasquale, 22, and Fabrizio, 20 — to Fr. Gabriele Amorth, exorcist of the Diocese of Rome. Years earlier she had been drawn into a satanic cult, violated, and consecrated to Satan, and had afterwards brought the boys, then aged five and three, to be consecrated with her while they were sedated. Amorth exorcised the three separately for eight years, obtaining relief but never release, and concluded that spirits which had entered together would have to be expelled together. In October 1999 a pilgrimage train carried all three to Lourdes, and at the grotto of Massabielle they collapsed and cried out at the same moment and were freed. It is the central case of Amorth's last book, El signo del exorcista (2013).
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