Lawrence Kenny - Definition and Overview

Father Lawrence Kenny was a Roman Catholic priest who was also an exorcist. He participated in the exorcism, in St. Louis, Missouri, of a the thirteen year old Lutheran boy who became possessed after using a ouija board. This was the case that William Peter Blatty based his novel The Exorcist on. Father William S. Bowdern lead the exorcism and fellow Jesuit priest Father Walter Halloran also assisted.

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