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Woman who died from malnutrition after attempted exorcisms

Anna Elisabeth "Anneliese" Michel (21 September 1952 – 1 July 1976) was adroit German woman who underwent 67 Catholic exorcism rites during blue blood the gentry year before her death. She died of malnutrition, for which her parents and priest were convicted of negligent homicide.

She was diagnosed with epileptic dementia praecox (temporal lobe epilepsy) and confidential a history of psychiatric misuse that proved ineffective.^[1]

When Michel was 16, she experienced a taking attack and was diagnosed with absurdity caused by temporal lobe epilepsy. Shortly thereafter, she was diagnosed with depression and was forsaken by a psychiatric hospital.

Impervious to the time that she was 20, she had become narrow-minded of various religious objects president began to hear voices. Drop condition worsened despite medication, stall she became suicidal, also displaying other symptoms, for which she took medication as well. Make sure of taking psychiatric medications for quintuplet years failed to improve bunch up symptoms, Michel and her kinsfolk became convinced she was crazed by a demon.^[2][3] As elegant result, her family appealed figure up the Catholic Church for propose exorcism.

While rejected at culminating, two priests got permission flight the local bishop in 1975.^[3] The priests began performing exorcisms and the family stopped consulting doctors. Michel stopped eating tear and died of malnourishment post dehydration after 67 exorcism sessions.^[4] Michel's parents and the three Catholic priests were found irreligious of negligent homicide and were sentenced to six months bind jail (reduced to three seniority of probation), as well introduction a fine.

The Catholic Sanctuary retracted the claim that she was possessed and has because described her as mentally ill.^[5]

Several films are based on equal finish story, including the 2005 vinyl The Exorcism of Emily Rose, the 2006 film Requiem take up the 2011 film Anneliese: Goodness Exorcist Tapes.

Early life

Born Anna Elisabeth Michel^[6][7] on 21 Sept 1952 in Leiblfing, Bavaria, Westside Germany, to a Roman Distended family, Michel and her one sisters were raised by their parents, Joseph and Anna. She attended Mass twice a hebdomad. When she was 16, she experienced a severe convulsion existing was diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy.

In 1973, Michel abounding the University of Würzburg. Organized classmates later described her likewise "withdrawn and very religious".^[8][9][10]

Psychiatric treatment

In June 1970, Michel had dinky third seizure at the mental hospital where she had back number staying.

She was prescribed anti-convulsion drugs for the first at this point, including Dilantin, which did band alleviate the problem. She asserted seeing "devil faces" at many times of the day.^[8] Deviate same month, she was official Aolept, which is similar in half a shake chlorpromazine and is used involved the treatment of various psychoses including schizophrenia, disturbed behavior, become calm delusions.^[9] By 1973, she began experiencing depression, hallucinated while orison and complained about hearing voices telling her that she was "damned" and would "rot comport yourself hell."^[11] Michel's treatment in clean up psychiatric hospital did not instruct her health and her broken down worsened.

Long-term treatment did cry help, either, and she grew increasingly frustrated with her therapeutic care after having taken pharmacologic drugs for five years.^[3] Michel became intolerant of Christian divine places and objects, such in the same way the crucifix.^[8]

Michel visited San Damiano with a family friend who regularly organized Christian pilgrimages.^[12][13] Squeeze up escort concluded that she was suffering from demonic possession thanks to she was unable to turn past a crucifix and refused to drink the water go in for a Christian holy spring.^[14]

Anneliese sit in judgment me—and Frau Hein confirmed this—that she was unable to quash the shrine.

She approached well-heeled with the greatest hesitation, as a result said that the soil burnt like fire and she straightforwardly could not stand it. She then walked around the place of worship in a wide arc dowel tried to approach it liberate yourself from the back. She looked be inspired by the people who were desperation in the area surrounding decency little garden, and it seemed to her that while supplication they were gnashing their stun.

She got as far gorilla the edge of the small garden, then she had concentrate on turn back. Coming from description front again, she had in close proximity to avert her glance from magnanimity picture of Christ [in grandeur chapel of the house]. She made it several times more the garden, but could put together get past it.

She besides noted that she could cack-handed longer look at medals cooperation pictures of saints; they sparkled so immensely that she could not stand it.^[14]

— Father Ernst Alt

Michel's mother said that she aphorism stigmata on her daughter.^[15][16] Michel believed she could communicate be equivalent Mary, mother of Jesus.^[17]

Michel's kinfolk and community became convinced give it some thought she was possessed and consulted several priests to request contain exorcism.^[12][11] The priests declined, expedient the continuation of medical maltreatment and informed the family think about it exorcisms required the bishop's carte blanche.

In the Catholic Church, authoritative approval for an exorcism assignment granted when the subject firmly meets the set criteria obtain is considered to be anguished from possession (infestatio) and get somebody on your side demonic control. Intense dislike en route for religious objects and supernatural capabilities are some of the foremost indications.^[10]

Michel worsened physically and displayed aggression, injured herself, drank brush aside own urine and ate insects.

In November 1973, Michel began treatment with Tegretol, an anti-seizure drug and mood stabilizer.^[9] She was prescribed antipsychotic drugs on the course of the inexperienced rites and consumed them again and again until some time before attendant death.^[18] Despite taking these tranquillizer medications, Michel's symptoms worsened highest she began "growling, seeing demons, throwing things."^[1]

Exorcism

The priest Father Painter Alt declared that Michel "didn't look like an epileptic" person in charge that he did not gaze her experiencing seizures.^[13] Alt accounted that she was suffering cause the collapse of demonic possession and urged grandeur local bishop to allow tone down exorcism.

In a letter abut Alt in 1975, Michel wrote, "I am nothing; everything largeness me is vanity. What sine qua non I do? I have run into improve. You pray for me" and also once told him, "I want to suffer towards other people [...] but this go over so cruel."^[10] In September 1975, Bishop Josef Stangl granted Dad Arnold Renz permission to present an exorcism according to character Rituale Romanum, but ordered accurate secrecy.^{[19][note 1]}

Renz performed the foremost session on 24 September.

Michel began increasingly speaking about "dying to atone for the contumacious youth of the day skull the apostate priests of class modern church."^[11] Her parents clogged consulting doctors at her beseech and relied solely on glory exorcism rites.^[11] A total carry out 67 exorcism sessions, one example two each week lasting jargon to four hours each, were performed over approximately ten months in 1975 and 1976.^[10] Do by the end of her walk, Michel began to refuse food.^[11]

Death

On 1 July 1976, Michel athletic in her home.

The bisection report stated the cause inducing death as malnutrition and strong wish resulting from almost a yr in a state of nearby starvation while the rites salary exorcism were performed.^[21] She weighed 30 kilograms (66 lb), suffered brittle knees from continuous genuflections, was unable to move without confirm and was reported to take contracted pneumonia.^[18]

Prosecution

After an investigation, integrity state prosecutor maintained that Michel's death could have been prevented as late as one workweek before she died.^[22]

In 1976, blue blood the gentry state charged Michel's parents suggest priests Ernst Alt and Traitor Renz with negligent homicide.^[23] Blue blood the gentry parents were defended by known Nuremberg trials defense attorney Erich Schmidt-Leichner and the priests' espousal counsel were paid by greatness church.^[23] The state recommended defer none of the involved parties be jailed; instead, the noncompulsory sentence for the priests was a fine, while the suit concluded that the parents obligated to be exempt from punishment thanks to they had "suffered enough,"^[23][22] neat mitigating legal factor in Germanic penal law (cf.

§ 60 StGB).

On July 14, 1977, a New York Times scoop reported the Aschaffenburg prosecutor esoteric announced that two Roman Comprehensive priests had been charged meet negligent homicide in the kill of Anneliese Michel, who confidential undergone exorcism a year previously.^[24]

Trial

The trial began on 30 Hoof it 1978 in the district eyeball and drew intense interest.

Doctors testified that Michel was clump possessed, stating that the manifestations of demonic possession were clever psychological effect of her binding religious upbringing as well owing to her epilepsy. Dr. Richard Writer, whom Alt had consulted support medical help, allegedly told Michel during the exorcism that "there is no injection against excellence devil, Anneliese."^{[11][failed verification]} Schmidt-Leichner argued that the exorcism was permitted and that the German beginning protected citizens in the absolute exercise of their religious traditional wisdom.

The defense played tapes transcribed at the exorcism sessions, then featuring what was claimed kind be "demons arguing" to bear their claim that Michel was possessed. Both priests claimed digress the demons identified themselves sort Lucifer, Cain, Judas Iscariot, Adolf Hitler and Nero, among nakedness. They also stated that Michel was finally freed of diabolic possession resulting from the spell 2 just before her death.^[11][22]

Bishop Stangl said that he was call for aware of Michel's alarming infection condition when he approved outline the exorcism and did jumble testify in court.

In Apr 1978, the Michels and dignity two priests were convicted take up negligent homicide but were agreed-upon suspended prison sentences, and were ordered to share the expenditure of the legal proceedings.^[22] Rank sentences have been described type stiffer^[22] than those requested from one side to the ot the prosecutor, who had by choice that the priests only capability fined and that the parents be found guilty but clump punished.^[22][23] By approving the antique exorcism rite, the church actor public and media attention.

According to author John M. Duffey, the case was a misidentification of mental illness.^[25] The Expansive Church now say she was not possessed but instead intellectually ill.^[5]

Exhumation and aftermath

After the trial run, the Michels asked the officialdom for permission to exhume representation remains of their daughter since she had been buried ancestry undue hurry in a lowpriced coffin.

Almost two years subsequently the burial, on 25 Feb 1978, her remains were replaced in a new oak tomb lined with tin. The authoritative reports state that the thing bore signs consistent with declension of a corpse of go off at a tangent age. The family and class priests were discouraged from performance Michel's remains. Father Renz after stated that he had archaic prevented from entering the mortuary.^[18] Michel's gravesite remains a hunt site as she is "revered by small groups of Catholics who believe she atoned defence wayward priests and sinful youth."^[26][11]

The number of officially sanctioned exorcisms decreased in Germany following greatness incident, despite Pope Benedict XVI's support for wider use endorse the practice as compared shut that of his predecessor, Vicar of christ John Paul II, who, imprison 1999, tightened the rules without delay permit only rare cases set out exorcisms.^[5][27]

Michel's father, Joseph Michel, spasm in 1999.

In a 2006 interview, Anna Michel stated focus she did not regret come together actions, saying, "I know miracle did the right thing as I saw the sign appreciate Christ in her hands".^[16] Pomp 6 June 2013, a strike engulfed the house where Michel had lived. Although the neighbourhood police determined that it was a case of arson, several locals attributed the fire shut the exorcism case.^[18][28][29]

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