@Lulu Not true. I risked myself receiving an exorcism, at risk of my own health. It happened when I was 14 years old, living in central-southern Italy. It was 1992.
While on a day trip with the equivalent of American "Sunday School", I started experiencing a strong headache, shortly followed by seizures to part of the face and right arm, foam from the right of the mouth and rapid eye movement.
While the bus driver raced to an highway service area to call for medical assistance, the priest accompanying us took the situation in his hands and put up a ruckus to have the driver to stop at the roadside to let him "practice an exorcism". Later someone told me that of the three adults with us, two agreed with him while the third panicked.
Fortunately, the driver managed to overcome opposition and reach a service area, where he found a Carabinieri car. They took me to Naples hospital without having to wait for an ambulance. There I was visited and went under emergency surgery to remove a blood buildup that was causing pressure on the brain. The priest was later questioned, but no measure was taken.
That was a close call, the blood spill could have been fatal in just a few minutes more. It had consequences, of course, but luckily they disappeared with time.
Not true. I risked myself receiving an exorcism, at risk of my own health.
It happened when I was 14 years old, living in central-southern Italy. It was 1992.
While on a day trip with the equivalent of American "Sunday School", I started experiencing a strong headache, shortly followed by seizures to part of the face and right arm, foam from the right of the mouth and rapid eye movement.
While the bus driver raced to an highway service area to call for medical assistance, the priest accompanying us took the situation in his hands and put up a ruckus to have the driver to stop at the roadside to let him "practice an exorcism". Later someone told me that of the three adults with us, two agreed with him while the third panicked.
Fortunately, the driver managed to overcome opposition and reach a service area, where he found a Carabinieri car. They took me to Naples hospital without having to wait for an ambulance. There I was visited and went under emergency surgery to remove a blood buildup that was causing pressure on the brain. The priest was later questioned, but no measure was taken.
That was a close call, the blood spill could have been fatal in just a few minutes more. It had consequences, of course, but luckily they disappeared with time.