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1978 - Trial About Exorcism: On March 30th, 1978 opened at the Superior Court in Aschaffenburg, (West-Germany) the trial about a case of exorcism, of which in 1976 died Anneliese Michel, a 23-year-old girl. The student, living in Klingenberg, a little town in Franconia, was an epileptic, but she and her parents thought, she was possessed by the devil. In summer 1975 the bishop Josef Stangl of Wurzburg (FRG) entrusted the two Catholic priests Ernst Alt and Wilhelm Renz, to exorcize the devil with the canonical Orders of the Rituale Romanum of 1914. On July 1st, 1976 the emaciated girl died of circulatory disturbance, for the parents neglected to call for a doctor. Now her parents, Josef and Anna Michel, and the two priests are charged with manslaughter in the degree. Photo shows The parents of the dead girl, Josef and Anna Michel, and the lawyer Dr. Marianne Kunkelcichos (f.l.t.r. - ZUMAk09_

1978 - Trial About Exorcism: On March 30th, 1978 opened at the Superior Court in Aschaffenburg, (West-Germany) the trial about a case of exorcism, of which in 1976 died Anneliese Michel, a 23-year-old girl. The student, living in Klingenberg, a little town in Franconia, was an epileptic, but she and her parents thought, she was possessed by the devil. In summer 1975 the bishop Josef Stangl of Wurzburg (FRG) entrusted the two Catholic priests Ernst Alt and Wilhelm Renz, to exorcize the devil with the canonical Orders of the Rituale Romanum of 1914. On July 1st, 1976 the emaciated girl died of circulatory disturbance, for the parents neglected to call for a doctor. Now her parents, Josef and Anna Michel, and the two priests are charged with manslaughter in the degree. Photo shows The parents of the dead girl, Josef and Anna Michel, and the lawyer Dr. Marianne Kunkelcichos (f.l.t.r. - ZUMAk09_

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1978 - Trial About Exorcism: On March 30th, 1978 opened at the Superior Court in Aschaffenburg, (West-Germany) the trial about a case of exorcism, of which in 1976 died Anneliese Michel, a 23-year-old girl. The student, living in Klingenberg, a little town in Franconia, was an epileptic, but she and her parents thought, she was possessed by the devil. In summer 1975 the bishop Josef Stangl of Wurzburg (FRG) entrusted the two Catholic priests Ernst Alt and Wilhelm Renz, to exorcize the devil with the canonical Orders of the Rituale Romanum of 1914. On July 1st, 1976 the emaciated girl died of circulatory disturbance, for the parents neglected to call for a doctor. Now her parents, Josef and Anna Michel, and the two priests are charged with manslaughter in the degree. Photo shows The parents of the dead girl, Josef and Anna Michel, and the lawyer Dr. Marianne Kunkelcichos (f.l.t.r. - ZUMAk09_

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