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This image illustrates the Biblical story of "The Healing of the Gadarene Demoniacs." In story two demoniacs approach Christ and during the exorcism Christ sends the demons into a herd of pigs and the pigs then rushed down a steep bank into the sea…

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 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 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 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…

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…

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…