In seventeenth-century Loudun, reports of possession inside an Ursuline convent became a public confrontation between exorcists, magistrates and an accused priest. Urbain Grandier had survived one prosecution.
In seventeenth-century Loudun, reports of possession inside an Ursuline convent became a public confrontation between exorcists, magistrates and an accused priest. Urbain Grandier had survived one prosecution. The next would place alleged demonic testimony before a royal commission. The third episode of our six-part Halloween special follows the accusations, the tests, the alleged pacts and the execution. Its final segment examines how the evidence was gathered and why the story continued after the condemned man was dead.
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