During an exorcism, St. Michael the Archangel himself showed up. And what the boy saw will give you chills. 🔥

In 1949, a 13-year-old Lutheran boy was tormented by a demon after his aunt — a spiritualist — taught him to use a Ouija board before she died. For months it branded words into his skin, hurled him across rooms, and even fooled his family into thinking it was the dead aunt's ghost.

Then, on the night of April 18, 1949, a voice that was not the boy's broke through the prayers:

"Satan! Satan! I am Saint Michael, and I command you, Satan, and the other evil spirits to leave the body in the name of Dominus, immediately. Now! Now! Now!"

The boy saw a brilliant white light, and in it a beautiful man — hair blowing in a wind no one could feel, a white robe like scales of light, a fiery sword raised in his right hand, his left pointing down into a burning pit. The devil resisted and laughed… until Michael spoke one word: "Dominus." The Lord. And the demon, with about ten others, fled screaming into the fire.

Here's the part most people miss: just two days earlier, on Holy Saturday, the Brothers had placed a small statue of St. Michael in the boy's room. The priests recorded that the prayer to St. Michael was one of the most effective of the entire exorcism. 📜

The boy — and his entire family — became faithful Catholics. Where sin abounds, grace abounds all the more.

📜 Sources: The contemporaneous diary kept by Fr. Raymond Bishop, S.J., recording the 1949 St. Louis exorcism performed by Fr. William Bowdern, S.J. This is the case that later inspired the 1973 film "The Exorcist."

🙏 Save this. Send it to someone who needs the reminder that heaven still fights for us. And pray his prayer:

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl through the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

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