BARTOLO LONGO BECAME A SATANIC PRIEST SO HE COULD CROSS-EXAMINE DEMONS, BUT HE WENT ON TO BECOME THE FOUNDER OF THE SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF POMPEII
Naples, 1864. Bartolo Longo, A young law student was very eager to be in attendance at a seance. A medium was lost in a trance and was inviting demons to occupy his body and give answers to the people gathered around the table in front of him. Bartolo leant towards the medium, stared at him with dark penetrating eyes and asked, "Does hell exist?" The medium replied, "No." Bartolo was initially very satisfied with the answers the demons gave. He felt he had finally found the truth after years as a disillusioned Catholic. His faith in Christ and His Church had been perverted by teachers at his university, which included bitter ex-priests who did their utmost to rinse the Catholicism from the souls of their students. He got further along in his legal training and more avidly than ever participated at seances, quizzing the mediums who were flesh puppets in the hands of the demons. But as he came ever closer to graduating with his law degree, Bartolo found that the
