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Subscribe now wherever you get your podcast. Welcome to the History of the Papacy podcast, a podcast about the history of the

popes of Rome and Christian Church.

Prepare yourself to step behind the ropes and leave the official tour of the story of the

popes and Christianity. I'm your host, Steve Guerra, and I thank you for joining me on this

journey.

Then they sail to the country of the Gatorines, which is opposite Galilee, and when he stepped out on the land,

there met him a certain man from the city who had demons for a long time, and he wore no clothes,

nor did he live in a house, but in the tombs. When he saw Jesus, he cried out, fell down before him,

and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with you, Jesus, son of the most high God? I beg you,

do not torment me, for he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man, for it had often seized him,

and he was kept under guard, bound with chains and shackles, and he broke the bonds and was

driven by the demon into the wilderness. Jesus asked him, saying, what is your name? And he said

legion, because many demons had entered him,

"'and they begged him that he would not command them to go out into the abyss.

"'Now a herd of many swine was feeding there on the mountain,

"'so they begged him that he would permit them to enter them,

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