Paperback: What happens when a human being becomes possessed by Satan?
What are the horrors of being possessed?
What type of man is an exorcist?
Why should he offer himself as hostage to the devil so as to free the person possessed of evil?
What are the physical tortures and mental anguishes of the exorcist?
Malachi Martin, an eminent theologian, fully documents five case-histories of men and women who were possessed and of the exorcists involved, and discusses the significance of his findings which must influence our thinking and beliefs today in his Hostage to the Devil (1976).
About the author: Dr Malachi Martin (1921-1999), eminent theologian, was born in Kerry, Ireland, educated at Belevedere College and entered the Society of Jesus in 1939. He studied at the National University where he took a bachelor's degree in Semitic Languages and Oriental History, with parallel studies in Assyriology at Trinity College. From 1958 until 1964, Malachi Martin served in Rome, where he was a close associate of the renowned Jesuit Cardinal, Augustine Bea, and of Pope John XXIII; and where he was Professor at the Pontifical Biblical Institute of the Vatican, teaching Hebrew, Aramaic, Paleography and the Bible. After twenty-five years as a Jesuit, he was released from his vows of poverty and obedience in 1964. He wrote thrillers about the Roman Catholic Church such as Hostage to the Devil, The Keys of This Blood, Windswept House, and more than a dozen other books. He lived in Manhattan and died at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan.
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