Hajja Salesjana October-December 2019

21 H AJJA S ALESJANA are from the written testimonies of exorcists including the late Fr. Candido Amantini (1914- 1992), who’s cause for beatification has begun, the late Fr. Gabriele Amorth (1925-2016), and Fr. Francesco Bamonte, a current exorcist of Rome who lectured at the AIE 2017 Rome course on liberation from evil. According to exorcists, here are some of the testaments that demons were forced to confess about the Virgin Mary during various major rites of exorcism: • “ Mary is the terror of Hell .  She sovereignly loves mortal beings. Her love for mortals is inconceivable. She snatches away from us (demons) more souls than all the angels and all the saints put together.” • “ I compare Mary to a formidable army .  He who loves Mary is a friend of God. God is pleased with Mary. He gives evidence of that by never refusing one grace of all those that She asks of Him. When a person prays to Mary, he does not do so with enough respect. One does not recognize that honouring Mary honours God Who made Her as She is.” • “ At other times ,  in a disdainful tone, a demon manifested again his refusal to accept that the Virgin Mary was put over him through these expressions, ‘She is only flesh. I am pure spirit! No, she is not! She, higher than me? No! I am spirit!’” • “ On another occasion ,  responding with words already used in part before, a demon affirmed, ‘I rejected that She would be next to Him. I could not bear that a human creature would be above me because I was the most beautiful angel, beautiful, beautiful, the greatest. I was Lucifer, the angel par excellence.’” • “ The Woman! For love of His children, She was created before all times in the thought of God. And as a pure spirit, I cannot bear this. That putrid flesh! She is feared by us because She holds you in her arms with her humility, obedience, and merciful love. The purity of Her body: it was not ever touched, not even by a thought. We did not succeed, not even with a thought. I did not undermine Her even with a thought—not one, not one, cursed! I was never able to touch Her because That One (God) always watched over Her. There was always that One. It is not my fault. I was not able to touch Her. I was afraid.” • “ Another time ,  with evident metaphoric language (the demon not having either skin or brain because of the nature of its immaterial spirit), a demon said, ‘Every time that She (referring to Our Lady) descends onto the earth, we sink even lower. Every one of Her tears is a hole in our skin. Every one of Her glances is a tearing of our brain. Every one of Her steps is our end. We are looking to stop Her, but we do not succeed because She is more powerful than us. Evil