Fr Gabriele Amorth, a prominent Catholic exorcist, has died after a long illness, an Italian care facility announced on Saturday. He was 91.
Santa Lucia Foundation, a Rome rehabilitation centre, said Fr Amorth died a day earlier in another Rome hospital where he was recently transferred after his health worsened. Foundation officials said he had suffered from various respiratory and circulatory problems.
Exorcism in the Catholic Church received more attention after St John Paul II repeatedly sought to convince sceptics the devil was very much active in the world. During his papacy, the Vatican issued guidelines for driving out devils and stressed the power of evil.
