The synopsis for the terrifying new film reads: “Inspired by the actual files of Father Gabriele Amorth, Chief Exorcist of the Vatican (Academy Award winner Russell Crowe), The Pope’s Exorcist follows Amorth as he investigates a young boy’s terrifying possession and ends up uncovering a centuries-old conspiracy the Vatican has desperately tried to keep hidden.
In real-life, Father Amorth claimed to have performed 160,000 exorcisms by May 2013, although not all were full-blown possessions.
Nevertheless, he claimed that a person could be possessed by more than one demon at once, sometimes in their thousands – just like the group called Legion exorcised out of one man into a herd of pigs by Christ himself in Mark’s gospel.
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