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20 BEGONE SATAN

this was of no avail because he scoffed at and ridiculed

the priest ministering the sacrament to him. Later

in the exorcism he made the following explanation:

Whatever sins he had committed in this life might still

have been forgiven him before death, so that he could

havfe been saved ; but the crime of giving his own child

to the devils was the thing that finally determined his

eternal damnation. Even in hell he was still scheming

how to torture and molest his child. Lucifer gladly

permitted him to do this. And since he was in his own

daughter, he was not, despite all the solemn prayers

of the Church, in the least disposed to give her up or

leave her.

"But you will obey! The power of Christ and the

Blessed Trinity will force you back into the pit of hell

where you belong!"

Then followed a loud roar and protest: "No, no,

only spare me that!"

As the prayers of exorcism were continued,

Jacob's mistress, who was in hell with him, also had

to face the ordeal and give answer. Her high pitched

voice, almost a falsetto, had already been noticed

among the many other voices. She now confessed that

she was Mina.

Mina admitted that the cause of her damnation

was her prolonged immoral life with Jacob while his

wife was still living. But a more specific cause for her

eternal woes in hell was her unrepented acts of child

murder.

Exorcist : "You committed murder while you were

still

alive? Whom did you kill?"

Mina, bitterly: "Little ones." Evidently she meant

her own children.

Exorcist. "How many did you actually kill?"

Mina, most unwillingly, curtly: "Three—no, actually

four!"

Mina showed herself especially hateful.

Her replies

were filled with such bitter hatred and spite that

they far surpassed all that had happened so far. Her

demeanor towards the Blessed Sacrament is beyond

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