“Jesus is going to take us all, more wars are coming”, Minga yelled, one of the spirits that apparently tormented a 16-year-old girl, while she was exorcised and a camera recorded everything that happened.
Gina’s story, as she asked to be identified, took place in 1991. The Vatican allowed an episode to be broadcast on the ‘ABC’ network 20/20 where An exorcism was performed on a young Colombian woman who, supposedly, had been tormented for some time by various demons that had taken over her body.
Gina was restrained to a chair, the three crosses around her neck jerking as she, or the demons within her, tried to get out of the place.
Some of the words she shouted were in languages that no one but her understood. “I don’t want to leave,” she was also heard saying in a voice thicker than her own.
With a crucifix that seemed to want to cross Gina’s forehead, ‘Father A’, as he preferred to be called, prayed in Latin the words that only he and a few other members of the Church know and that are necessary to liberate a person’s body. that she is subjected to a demon, while the young woman complained because, apparently, it burned her.
In the 90’s, ABC aired America’s 1st televised exorcism. Gina was unstable & 16.
“Televising this was indefensible. To sprinkle holy water over serious & complex problems is to trivialize them & ensure that they continue,” Rev. Richard McBrien, said.#Paranormal #supernatural pic.twitter.com/fFhxvCzJrh
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Gina stuck out her tongue, screamed, jerked and tried to free herself from the drops of holy water that a nun sprinkled on her during prayers.
Minga -the demon that Gina had identified as a short woman- spoke like a little girl and Zien -the demon who was from the African jungle- repeated “Santali bukatalafayat”, as reported by EL TIEMPO at the time.
“Do not harm this person or anyone else who is in this place,” the father warned the demonic entities that tormented the minor. She between laughter and gestures of rage tried to get rid of the many hands that kept her seated.
“In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit!” repeated three times with fervor the priest with the crucifix on Gina’s forehead, whose face began to change from intense fury to a calm smile.
Apparently his soul was healed and the demons had left his body.
“Kiss the crucifix”, demanded the priest and the minor did. As if a few minutes ago she had not been in the middle of an exorcism, Gina stood up to hug the people who accompanied her in the ritual and it seemed that she was a completely different person.
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Possessed or a psychiatric patient?
Before Gina’s mother decided to perform an exorcism on her daughter, she enlisted the help of several doctors.
Gina began to present episodes in which her personality suddenly changed. She spit, vomited and her mother even assured at that time that she had heard the young woman speak in strange languages.
Because of this, Gina became a psychiatric patient at Miami Children’s Hospital, where Warren Schlange, the director of the program at the time, diagnosed her with psychotic episodes that would explain the reason for the voices or visions of “dead people or demons” that she claimed to have.
However, psychiatric intervention did not help her. In her lucid moments she was also convinced that they were demonic entities. “They were not human things, it was the devil”Felisa, Gina’s mother, told the press at some point.
Due to her beliefs, Felisa turned to the Church – without the consent of the doctor who was treating her daughter – who warned her that Gina could be the victim of possession.
(Keep reading: Possessions and other attacks the devil makes, according to an exorcist.)
God’s punishments
As Reverend James LeBar, who had great knowledge of exorcisms, explained in the same documentary, there are four main signs to identify a person who has been possessed: “great strength, levitation, clairvoyance, speaking in languages they never studied” .
The woman did all these things except levitate, although her mother claimed that at some point she had seen her being thrown from her bed to another part of the room.
But Not all members of the Church agreed that this exorcism should be broadcast in the United States. Father LeBar explained that this was done with the intention that people understand that there are evil presences in the world, so it is necessary for them to get closer to God.
(You may be interested: Exorcisms in the Vatican: shocking stories of Father Gabriele Amorth).
“Many people do not share the Church’s belief that the devil is real. We hope this will change some minds”, The father commented at the time to the magazine ‘People’, after the exorcism was a success on television with 29 million American viewers.
Despite this, other members of the Church believed that the ritual should be carried out privately and that viralizing it in this way also made it somewhat banal, when it really was a difficult process for both the person who suffered the possession and their family. and even the same father who performed the exorcism.
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