Father Gabriele Amorth, died on Friday, September 16, 2016 at the age of 91. He was born on May 1st 1925. Fr. Amorth was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and an exorcist of the Diocese of Rome.In an April 2015 Facebook post, he said the Islamic State group was due to demonic influence.
“ISIS is Satan. Things first happen in the spiritual realms, then they are made concrete on this earth.'' He was also a journalist with“Mother of God” and the group Famiglia Cristiana and Radio Maria.
In 2015 the Prefect of Rome, Paola Basilone, awarded Fr. Amorth the Medal of Liberation for his part in the partisan struggle in Italy during the Second World War.
Father Amorth was born in Modena, Emilia. He was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1954 and became an official exorcist in June 1986. Fr. Gabriele was a member of the Society of St. Paul, the congregation founded by James Alberione in 1914. In 1990, Fr. Amorth founded the International Association of Exorcists and was president until he retired, in 2000. In 2013 Fr. Amorth said he had performed 160,000 exorcisms in the course of his ministry.
The two books he wrote are "An Exorcist Tells His Story" and "An Exorcist: More Stories" of his personal accounts as an Exorcist.
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