Let’s take a look back at the tragic story of Anneliese Michel whose life and death inspired the 2005 film, The Exorcism of Emily Rose.🌹 Anneliese was born in 1952 in to a strict Catholic family to a mother who had already lost a daughter, Martha, who died at the age of eight. She was pressured into leading a pious life and attended mass twice a week. Anneliese went on the suffer neuroses linked to religious iconography as a result of her zealous parents. In 1973 she began suffering hallucinations while praying and became convinced that she was damned and the devil was inside of her. She turned to priests for help but her behavior became more extreme. As she began avoiding religious items like crosses and holy water, priests realized she was showing signs of demonic possession and after months of pleading from her parents, the church agreed to perform an exorcism. Fathers Arnold Renz and Ernst Alt, two priests from the local parish, were given the job of performing a secret exorcism...