A Belgian priest has told of a horror movie moment when the face of a woman he was exorcising of evil spirits changed shape to look like Lucifer.
Veteran devil hunter, Eric Jacqmin, 71, says he has spent decades expelling spirits and demons from victims who have been possessed.
Now he was told local media of one of his creepiest cases where a woman transformed into the devil right in front of his eyes.
Father Eric explained: “I once took care of a woman who came from France and was a victim of Satanism by her family.
“When an initial reading of her devils proved insufficient, I asked two bishops if I could continue.”
He said that they authorised him to go ahead, and he added that even a French psychiatrist had declared that the woman was possessed.
He continued: “That woman was urinating black, and had medically unexplained abdominal pain – clear signs of a devilish presence.
“I prepared the woman with holy water and a wooden cross and then carried out a direct confrontation with the devil.
“‘Who are you and where are you?’ I asked the remaining devil.
“It turned out to be Lucifer, who was in her blood.
“When the devil spoke out of that woman’s mouth, she took on demonic features.
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“Because the woman eventually started crying, it was in an attic where passers-by might hear her, the treatment was later continued in a French abbey.”
He added it was part of a growing problem, saying: “The devil is occupying more and more people. There are billions of devils, and there is much evil. Just look at us now on the brink of nuclear war.”
Father Eric says despite science, modern medicine and psychiatry, exorcists have rarely been busier.
He told local media in Flanders on 10th March that his brothers were not up to the task, saying: “Priests who are now recognised by the Church as exorcists do not necessarily do much more than the work of a psychologist.
“Many think that ‘the devil’ is a psychological condition, they deny that it is an external force, a spirit just as angels are spirits.
“If the body is a car, then the devil is a carjacker. He gets in and takes the wheel from you.
“The use of hard drugs, hard sex, sinful behaviour… are things that can bring the devil upon you.
“You cannot expect priests who do not themselves live in a state of grace, think of all paedophiles, to be able to chase away the devil.
“On the contrary, they are slaves to it themselves.”
But he warned: “You should not talk to the devil through prayer. You should command him to go away. In Latin, a sacred language.”
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