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It’s a rare worker who doesn’t complain about burnout, but most people don’t often lump Catholic priests

The original version of the movie “The Exorcist” ran for 122 minutes, which means the actual exorcism scenes – as scary as we remember them to be — lasted mere minutes. If the Guinness people give world records for exorcisms, the world record for the longest exorcism on one person may have been set recently... Read more »

View of St Mary of Mount Berico Sanctuary, Vicenza, Veneto. Italy. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images) Priests in a church in northeast Italy performed

In a wild story out of Italy, a group of friars performed a nine-hour-long exorcism on a young woman who was believed to be possessed by demonic forces after she attacked a priest and unleashed chaos inside a church.

The 28-year-old woman was accompanied by her family members to the Church of Saint Mary of Mount Berico in Vicenza, northern Italy, at around 11am on Sunday for confession.

By NANCY MONTGOMERY | Stars and Stripes | Published: February 18, 2021 Millions of pilgrims have made their way over the centuries up the hill from Vicenza to the Sanctuary of Saint Mary of Mount Berico, sometimes on their hands and knees. The church, built originally in the 15th century to persuade Mary to use her influence with God to stop a plague resurgence, is a Marian shrine that overlooks the city. Every first Sunday of the month, thousands have made the climb “to ask for a grace or...