You're going to St. Louis if you believe the stories and why wouldn't you?

It was in the Washington Post one of the nation's most respected newspapers,

in August 20th, 1949 Edition, Red.

And what is perhaps one of the most remarkable experiences

of its kind in recent religious history,

a 14-year-old Mount Rainier boy has been freed by a Catholic priest

of possession by the devil. It was reported yesterday. Only after 20 to 30 performances of the ancient ritual of exorcism, here in St. Louis, was the

devil finally cast out of the boy, it was said.

And all of the, except for the last of these, the boy broke into a violent tantrum of

screaming cursing and voicing of Latin phrases a language he'd never studied

whenever the priest reached those climactic points of the 27 page ritual in which he

commanded the demon to depart from the boy. In complete devotion to his

taff, the priest stayed with the boy for over a period of two months, during which he witnessed such manifestations

as the bed in which the boy was sleeping suddenly moving across the room.

A Washington Protestant minister has previously reported personally witnessing similar manifestations

including one in which the palette on which the sleeping boy lay slid slowly across the floor until the boy's head bumped against a bed, awakening him.

In another instance reported by the Protestant minister, a heavy armchair in which the boy was

sitting, with his knees drawn under his chin, tilted slowly to one side and fell over,

throwing the boy to the floor.

The final right of exorcism in which the devil was cast from the boy took place in May it was reported and since then he has

had no manifestations the ritual in its present form goes back 1500 years and from

there to Jesus Christ.

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