유EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE,THE REAL STORY유 I know that we did the right thing because I saw the sign of Christ in her hands. She was bearing stigmata and that was a sign from God that we should exorcise the demons. She died to save other lost souls, to atone for their sins. - Anna Michel (Annelieses mother, 2005) When did Anneliese begin to experience strange symptoms? Anneliese Michel real picture Epilepsy may have been the cause of Anneliese Michels demonic hallucinations. In 1968, when she was 17 and still in high school, Anneliese began to suffer from convulsions. Court findings have her experiencing her first epileptic attack in 1969. It was then that a neurologist at the Psychiatric Clinic Wurzburg diagnosed her with Grand Mal epilepsy. Soon, Anneliese started experiencing devilish hallucinations while praying. She also began to hear voices, which told her that she was damned. The court determined that by 1973 Anneliese was suffering from depression and considering suicide. In 1975, convinced that she was possessed, her parents gave up on the doctors from the psychiatric clinic. They chose to rely solely on the exorcisms for healing Annelieses symptoms have since been compared with those of schizophrenia, and they may have responded to treatment Who first diagnosed Anneliese as being possessed? The first unofficial diagnosis was made by an older woman who accompanied Anneliese on a pilgrimage. She noticed that Anneliese avoided walking past a particular image of Jesus, and that she refused to drink water from a holy spring. The woman also claimed that Anneliese smelled hellishly bad (washingtonpost). An exorcist from a nearby town examined Anneliese and concluded that she was demonically possessed. After two failed requests, the rite of exorcism was finally granted by the Bishop. What demons possessed Anneliese? Anneliese was convinced that she had been possessed by several demons, including Lucifer, Judas Iscariot, Nero, Cain, Hitler, and Fleischmann, a disgraced Frankish Priest from the 16th century. She also mentioned a few other damned souls who had manifested themselves through her. Did Annelieses mother Anna support the making of the film? No. Annelieses mother did not support the making of The Exorcism of Emily Rose. I dont want to see the film and I dont know anything about it, Mrs. Michel said, who was at the time in her eighties. Annelieses father Josef died six years prior to the films release. What other disturbing things did Anneliese do? Anneliese carried out a number of highly disturbing actions. She licked her own urine off the floor. She ate flies, spiders, and coal. She bit off the head of a dead bird. In one instance, she crawled under a table and barked like a dog for two days. She could often be heard screaming through the walls for hours. Tearing off her clothes and urinating on the floor became a regular occurrence. What were Anneliese Michels last words? Weak and on the verge of death, she spoke her last known words on the day before she died. She told her exorcists Beg for Absolution. To her mother Anna, she said, Mother, Im afraid. Had Anneliese been a deeply religious person prior to being possessed? Yes. Anneliese and her three sisters were raised in a strict Catholic family. Her father Josef had considered training as a priest and three of her aunts were nuns. Anneliese as a childFour years before Anneliese was born, her mother gave birth to an illegitimate daughter, Martha. As a result, her mother suffered great shame and was forced to wear a black veil on her wedding day. When Anneliese was a child, her mother encouraged her to atone for the sins of illegitimacy through fervent devotion. When Annelieses sister Martha died at the age of eight during an operation to remove a kidney tumor, this likely only increased Annelieses desire to do penance for her mother. As she grew older, Anneliese continued to suffer for the sins of others. When she was a teenager, Anneliese slept on a bare stone floor to atone for the sins of wayward priests and drug addicts, who could be observed sleeping on the hard ground at the local train station . In college at West Germanys University of Würzburg, she hung pictures of saints on her dorm room walls, kept a holy-water font near the door, and regularly prayed the Rosary. As stated earlier, even close to her death she spoke of dying to atone for the sins of the wayward youth and renegade priests. I read that the body of Anneliese Michel was exhumed after her death, is this true? Yes. On February 25, 1978, almost two years after her death, the deceased body of Anneliese Michel was dug up and moved to a new oak-coffin lined with tin. Her parents desire to move her from the cheap coffin in which she was buried was allegedly used as an excuse to exhume her body. Instead, they were acting on a message received from a Carmelite nun from the district of Allgaeu in southern Bavaria. The nun had told the parents that she had a vision that their daughters body was still intact. Official reports state that the body showed consistent deterioration. Photos of the exhumed body were never released, and Annelieses parents were prohibited from witnessing the exhumation. From a distance, they could however see her grave from the bedroom of their home, where her mother still lives today
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