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Exorcism

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  • 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.
  • Four Kenyan shaman or medicine men dressed in ceremonial costume, South east Asia. Halftone.
  • 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.
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Catalogue

    • 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.

    Thomas, N. (Napoléon) | Date: [between 1800 and 1899] | Reference: 2821863i
    • Books

    Documentazione fotografica del rito de esorcizzazione nel tarantismo pugliese / Paolo Albanese, Paola Chiari, Roberto Lorenzetti.

    Albanese, Paolo, 1896- | Date: 1984
  • view Four Kenyan shaman or medicine men dressed in ceremonial costume, South east Asia. Halftone.
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Four Kenyan shaman or medicine men dressed in ceremonial costume, South east Asia. Halftone.

    | Reference: 21495i
  • view Blessings given at the High Church of Our Beloved Lady involving the expulsion of devils and curing of blind and lame people. Etching.
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Blessings given at the High Church of Our Beloved Lady involving the expulsion of devils and curing of blind and lame people. Etching.

    | Reference: 18497i
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