WOMAN CALLED TO BE A NUN WAS POSSESSED AFTER SLEEPING WITH A SATANIST

It seemed a morning like any other at the Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese offices, when a woman in floods of tears came to see Adam Blai. She came to see Blai in his capacity as expert on demonic possession. The woman was in her 40s and she did not speak for herself, rather the demons occupying her told of their presence. Using her as their voice box they said to Blai, "This woman is possessed. We are in her because of___, who has cursed her.  We do not want to be in this woman, she prays too much. You have to help her."  This was already a strange case because the demons wanted to cooperate in their own expulsion, when they usually cling desperately to a body that they've invaded, so that they can hide in the flesh and bones of a human and avoid the pains of Hell. When the demons allowed her to speak for herself Cindy said, "I'm sorry that wasn't me. I need help. I don't know what's happening to me. I don't know why I came here today or how I got here."

Blai left out the name of the man who cursed her. It was a man that Cindy had slept with - before she found out he was a satanist. She came to this knowledge the hard way. After they had been intimate, she had terrifying nightmares, began spacing out, losing time and she’d wake up in strange places. She could not account for clusters of days that had disappeared from her memory. Once she came to herself in a street and she’d been horribly beaten up. Her boyfriend had not told her he practiced the dark arts, but when she discovered his worship of Satan, she ended it. Even after the break up, he continued to bother her and her parents.  

After Blai obtained a psychological report from Cindy's therapist, her exorcism began. The demons infesting her were very theatrical, and they shouted in deep male voices and boasted that there were people who worshiped them as gods.  This first team were all driven out. Then, a new team showed up, and they claimed they did not why they were there, but that Satan had assigned them. The priest offering the Rite of Exorcism ordered Satan to come and answer for this. Suddenly, Cindy started speaking in pragmatic way, "Fine, I'm here. What do you want?"

The priest made Satan explain as to why his demons were delegated to possess Cindy in particular. Satan replied as if giving a dry recital of facts, "Cindy Beeres, 47 years old. When she was 4, I noticed that she had a strong mind and a gift from God of visualizing things of a spiritual nature. When she was 6, I revealed myself to her in her room, and she could see me. I realized she had a vocation to the religious life."

Over the years that followed, "many spirits" were cast out of Cindy. But the reason they were controlling her body was that she had a vocation to be a nun and they were meant to prevent her from pursuing her calling to be a bride of Christ. 

PS: Forgive the tawdry title of this post, it is like something from a tabloid. But the trashy rags would be less likely to write a story on a woman who got possessed because she slept with a warlock and much less likely to report on why a woman who was destined to be a nun would have her vocation thwarted after she gave her body in sex to a satanist and then was occupied by demons for several years that she could have spent praying in a convent. 

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This post was informed by Adam Blai's The Exorcist Files, True Stories of Demonic Possession

The classic painting of an exorcism of a woman was executed by Lorenzo Salimbeni.