The Exorcism of Nicola Aubrey

[gt8952b]

I realize this is a very old thread, however, I just discovered it while doing some research on the exorcism of Nicola Aubrey. A question was raised about the documentation used by Fr. Muller in his book “Triumph of the Blessed Sacrament” and how the church “weighs in” on this event. I found a copy of his book on Scribd.com and the pages in which he lists his references are 13, 14, and 15 as mentioned earlier.

From the text:
“The account of these facts has been declared authentic by the most learned
theologians in Rome, and has been ordered to be printed in various languages by the
Popes Pius V. and Gregory XIII.”

Please refer to the following link for the full text of the book (scanned).

scribd.com/doc/3281539/-Triumph-of-The-Blessed-Sacrament-

 

[gurneyhalleck1]

The story is off to a pretty uncharitable and bad start. Luther UPHELD the real presence in the Eucharist. This priest writing this account has a poor knowledge of history. He must’ve missed the classes on Luther and how he pounded his fists on the table before Zwingli emphatically affirming the Eucharist to be the true body and blood of Christ completely present. If a guy is that wrong about something simple, I have trouble taking his stuff seriously.

An excellent (and true) story on the power of the Blessed Sacrament from Our Lady of the Rosary Library

**THE EXORCISM OF NICOLA AUBREY

By Father Michael Muller, C.Ss.R.**

It is indeed a remarkable fact that, as the devil made use of Luther, an apostate monk, to abolish the Mass and deny the Real Presence, in like manner God made use of His arch-enemy, the devil, to prove the Real Presence. He repeatedly forced him publicly to profess his firm belief in it, to confound the heretics for their disbelief, and acknowledge himself vanquished by Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. For this purpose God allowed a certain Mme. Nicola Aubrey, an innocent person, to become possessed by Beelzebub and twenty-nine other evil spirits. The possession took place on the eighth of November, 1565, and lasted until the eighth of February, 1566.

Her parents took her to Father de Motta, a pious priest of Vervins, in order that he might expel the demon by exorcisms of the Church. Father de Motta tried several times to expel the evil spirit by applying the sacred relics of the holy cross, but he could not succeed; Satan would not depart. At last, inspired by the Holy Ghost, he resolved to expel the devil by means of the sacrament of Our Lord’s Body and Blood. Whilst Nicola was lying in a state of unnatural lethargy, Father de Motta placed the Blessed Sacrament upon her lips, and instantly the infernal spell was broken; Nicola was restored to consciousness, and received Holy Communion with every mark of devotion. As soon as Nicola had received the sacred Body of Our Lord, her face became bright and beautiful as the face of an angel, and all who saw her were filled with joy and wonder, and they blessed God from their inmost hearts. With the permission of God, Satan returned and again took possession of Nicola.

As the strange circumstances of Nicola’s possession became known everywhere, several Calvinist preachers came with their followers, to “expose this popish cheat,” as they said. On their entrance, the devil saluted them mockingly, called them by name, and told them that they had come in obedience to him. One of the preachers took his Protestant prayerbook, and began to read it with a very solemn face. The devil laughed at him, and putting on a most comical look, he said: “Ho! Ho! My good friend; do you intend to expel me with your prayers and hymns? Do you think that they will cause me any pain? Don’t you know that they are mine? I helped to compose them!”

“I will expel thee in the name of God,” said the preacher, solemnly.

“You!” said the devil mockingly. “You will not expel me either in the name of God, or in the name of the devil. Did you ever hear of one devil driving out another?”

“I am not a devil,” said the preacher, angrily, “I am a servant of Christ.”

“A servant of Christ, indeed!” said Satan, with a sneer. “What! I tell you, you are worse than I am. I believe, and you do not want to believe. Do you suppose that you can expel me from the body of this miserable wretch? Ha! Go first and expel all the devils that are in your own heart!”

The preacher took his leave, somewhat discomfited. On going away, he said, turning up the whites of his eyes, “O Lord, I pray thee, assist this poor creature!”

“And I pray Lucifer,” cried the evil spirit, “that he may never leave you, but may always keep you firmly in his power, as he does now. Go about your business, now. You are all mine, and I am your master.”

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[gurneyhalleck1]

Pope John Paul 11, the pope of the future?

Could it be that God can use even the evil one - to serve His purpose -in this case to leave the element of mystery … to remind us that we now only see as through a dark glass…

As to Pope John Paul 11 himself , even as he was used as a powerful weapon against the vast evil of communism and rightly has been called The Mercy Pope , this incident could serve - against the sin of presumption which can come in easily , in the false guise of trust …and choke off the realisation of the need to avoid evil , not to take grace for granted and thus to mock God, and the need for repentance and reparation .

May the prayers of the Holy Father and of St. Faustina , St Teresa …coninue to bless and protect us .

Dear Lord Jesus, lead all souls to heaven esp. those most in need of thy Mercy !

 

[Spirithound]

The story is off to a pretty uncharitable and bad start. Luther UPHELD the real presence in the Eucharist. This priest writing this account has a poor knowledge of history. He must’ve missed the classes on Luther and how he pounded his fists on the table before Zwingli emphatically affirming the Eucharist to be the true body and blood of Christ completely present. If a guy is that wrong about something simple, I have trouble taking his stuff seriously.

Luther may not have intended to abolish the Mass, but that is exactly what ended up happening in the Lutheran church, and they no longer have the Real Presence.

 

[gurneyhalleck1]

Are you including the Lutherans in Sweden and other areas in Northern Europe that kept apostolic succession and bishops? And Lutherans would beg to differ with you about them not having the Real Presence.

***“I count among the most important results of the ecumenical dialogues the insight that the issue of the eucharist cannot be narrowed to the problem of ‘validity.’ Even a theology oriented to the concept of succession, such as that which holds in the Catholic and in the Orthodox church, need not in any way deny the salvation-granting presence of the Lord [Heilschaffende Gegenwart des Herrn] in a Lutheran [evangelische] Lord’s Supper” ***Cardinal Ratzinger (now Benedict XVI) 1993Briefwechsel von Landesbischof Johannes Hanselmann und Joseph Kardinal Ratzinger über das Communio-Schreiben der Römischen Glaubenskongregation," Una Sancta, 48 (1993): 348.

Luther may not have intended to abolish the Mass, but that is exactly what ended up happening in the Lutheran church, and they no longer have the Real Presence.