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Revision as of 21:38, September 28, 2009
Reverend Father Celestine Kapsner O.S.B. (April 29, 1892 - January 1973), was a Benedictine Catholic priest[1] 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.
Father Kapsner died in Minnesota in January 1973. His pamphlet was important because it brought a detailed account of an exorcism to the American public for the first time.
A book of genealogy that he wrote entitled, Kapsner Family Tree, 1874-1974 was postumously published in 1974.[2]
Published works
- The Ordinary of the Mass as a Means of Inculcating Religious Truth; an Essay, 1928
- Begone Satan!, 1935
- ↑ Time Magazine, March 2, 1936
- ↑ [Open Library http://openlibrary.org/b/OL4935126M/Kapsner_family_tree__1874-1974]