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Show RUSSIAN PRIEST CASTS . DEVIL OCT OF A WOMAN Solemn Official Report of the Alleged Miracle Made ty Kronstadt Police, ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 12. The Orthodox Or-thodox priest Father Ivan, , widely known as "St. John of Kronstadt" on account of the .many miraculous cures ascribed to him, indulged in a regular old fashioned devil expulsion act in his cloister church. The person claiming I to be possessed of the devil Is an old noblewoman, very rich and very ortho-dox.- She was unable to say her.pray- ers, to look at the saints' pictures, or to pronounce the name of the Savior. St. John ordered her to come to church at a certain hour when he would see what he could do for her. The old lady was admonished to keep the matter quiet, but somehow the thing leaked out and the church was crowded to suffocation when saint and sinner met. St. John wore his great white robe and carried in his hand" the golden crucifix given him by the Czar. He approached ap-proached the woman solemnly and cried out in a commanding voice: "Satan, in the name of, etc., I command com-mand thee to leave the body of this servant o( God." . Impressive silence for three or four minutes. Then the lady began to howl In an unearthly manner. "It's the devil," cried the multitude, "he is . pleading for mercy." "And this Is what the howling amounted to," says the police report. "The evil one did not want to leave his abode and again asked John to let him stay. But John was obdurate and insisted in-sisted that he go and he finally did so 'in a cloud of smoke rising from the woman's mouth that filled the church with the smell of sulphur. " The foregoing is taken from the official offi-cial Gazette, published by authority of the master of police. |