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This is a Jesuit altarpiece painted by Peter Paul Rubens shows a demonic possession. St. Ignatius is the largest figure in the paintings surrounded by a glowing aura. One of his hands is on the altar, the other outstretched over the two demoniacs…

In this image of demonic possession St. Ignatius is seen in the center of the image, looking towards heaven and appears as if in a divine trance, he holds one hand out over the demoniac and the other is open and offered to God. The male demoniac is…

St. Eligius (c. 590-659) was the bishop of Noyon. Painted in the fifteenth century by an anonymous artist. Eligius is shown praying, and identified by the halo as the exorcist in this scene of demonic possession. Two men restrain the male demoniac.…

This sixteenth-century French engraving depicts St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) performing an exorcism of a female demoniac. The image most likely comes from an illustrated bibliography of the St. CatherineÍs life and miracles. Men performed most…

This sixteenth-century panel painting shows the exorcism of a young German female demoniac in 1370 at the shrine of the Virgin Mary at Zell in Styria. A priest or monk is shown as the exorcist. He has wrapped his stole around the womanÍs neck. The…

This image is a scene of the exorcism of Nicole Obry at the Cathedral of Loan in 1566. Nicole Obry was a teenage female demoniac publicly exorcised in France in the sixteenth century. Proponents of the Counter-Reformation benefited from these events…

This image shows the administration of the Blessed Sacrament to Nicole Obry in 1566. One of the many exorcism preformed on the young female demoniac. French exorcists used the Eucharist in exorcisms as part of a Huguenots to prove that Christ was…

This image from The Devil Within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West by Brian P. Levack is centered on the execution of Urbain Grandier at Loudun in 1634. Grandier was one of three French priests convicted of causing the possession of nuns…

This image, from The Devil Within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West by Brian P. Levack, shows the exorcism of Madeleine Bavent in 1634. Madeleine Bavent was the first nun to be exorcised at Louviers, Bavent was subsequently accused of…

This engraving by Jacques Callot depicts an unidentified woman during her exorcism. The female demoniac's back is arched, her limbs are extended, and her head is twisted to her left. A picture of the Virgin Mary, whose help was often solicited in…