Celestine Kapsner

Reverend Father Celestine Kapsner O.S.B., was a Catholic priest and exorcist whose account of an American exorcism brought delivance to the attention of a large audience for the first time in the United States.

Father Kapsner was stationed at St. John's Abbey at Collegeville, Minnesota, in the early 1960's.

Among Father Kapsner's other duties and activities, he was in charge of the garden. Kapsner was also known to have taken part in exorcisms. He translated a 1928 account of an exorcism by Father Theophilus Riesinger from a German magazine and published it, as Begon Satan! in 1935. This pamphlet was important because it brought a detailed account of an exorcism to the American public for the first time.