Edward Hughes - Definition and Overview

Father Edward Albert Hughes (August 28, 1918 - October 12, 1980) was a Roman Catholic priest who served as an assistant pastor from June 16, 1948 to June 18, 1960 at St. James Church in Mt. Rainier, Maryland. He also served as an exorcist.

He attempted his first exorcism in 1949 at the Georgetown University Hospital on a thirteen year old Lutheran boy, and it was unsucessful. The case became famous for the boy became possessed after using a ouija board and William Peter Blatty was inspired by a newspaper article about the case and turned it into a novel which was subsequently turned into a film called The Exorcist.

In 1973, Father Hughes returned to St. James Church and became pastor until his death of a heart attack in 1980.

External links

• Movie 'Exorcist' Got It Right, Say Priests Who Cast Out Demons (http://www.beliefnet.com/story/42/story_4274_1.html)
• Famous Cases: The Exorcist (http://www.guardiantales.freewebspace.com/C-Exorcist.html)
• The St.Louis Exorcism Case!The Story that Became the Exorcist! (http://www.prairieghosts.com/exorcist.html)

Related Books

• Possessed: The True Story of an Exorcism, Thomas B. Allen, 1993, ISBN 0553471775