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Exorcism

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Demonology
Rites and ceremonies

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Images from the collections

Images about Exorcism

18 images from works
  • François Oudot, Viscount of Auxonne, healing and exorcising people in a village square. Etching, 1760, after F. Devosge.
  • A priest exorcist, with two men playing cymbals and drums. Gouache painting.
  • Christ heals a demoniac; a demon is expelled into the air. Etching by J.D. de Montalegre and M.H. Rentz.
  • Blessings given at the High Church of Our Beloved Lady involving the expulsion of devils and curing of blind and lame people. Etching.
  • An African medicine man or shaman using symbols and small animals to eject a demon (disease). Wood engraving by Dalziel after J. Leech.
  • Saint Benedict of Nursia: he frees a priest who had been possessed by devils. Engraving by G. Fabbri, 1776, after D. Fratta after L. Carracci.
  • Saint Benedict exorcising through prayer a man possessed by demons. Etching by G.M. Giovannini after L. Carracci.
  • Christ heals a demoniac; a demon is expelled into the air. Etching.
  • Saint Benedict curing a man possessed by a devil. Etching after L. Carracci.
  • Saint Francis de Paul (San Francesco da Paola) healing a man with an ulcered leg and a woman vexed by a malignant spirit. Oil painting.
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Works from the collections

101 works

    • Books

    Teufelaustreibungen : die Praxis der katholischen Kirche im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert / [Cécile Ernst].

    Cécile Ernst | Date: [1972]
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Roman Catholic Church

    | Date: mid-18th century | Reference: MS.4251
    • Pictures

    The abbé de Gondi being exorcised by Carthusian monks. Engraving by Ferdinand after N. Thomas.

    Napoléon Thomas | Date: [between 1800 and 1899] | Reference: 2821863i
    • Books

    English Catholics and the supernatural, 1553-1829 / Francis Young.

    Francis Kendrick Young | Date: [2013]
    • Manuscripts

    Saint Ambrosius (c.340-397)

    | Date: Late 15th Century
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Related topics

Demoniac possession
Catholicism
Witchcraft
Religion and Medicine
Demonology
Dissenters
Healers
Faith Healing
England
Medicine, Traditional

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