{"id":1179,"date":"2001-09-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-09-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/09\/06\/2001-09-06-archbishop-mother-teresa-happily-underwent-exorcism\/"},"modified":"2001-09-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-09-06T12:00:00","slug":"2001-09-06-archbishop-mother-teresa-happily-underwent-exorcism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/09\/06\/2001-09-06-archbishop-mother-teresa-happily-underwent-exorcism\/","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop; Mother Teresa &#8220;Happily&#8221; Underwent Exorcism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Religion News Service<\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>KOLKATA, INDIA, September 6, 2001: Amid fears she had become the victim of the devil, Mother Teresa &#8220;happily agreed&#8221; to undergo an exorcism, according to the Archbishop of Calcutta. Several months before her death, the 87-year-old Catholic nun turned to the procedure after suffering from sleeplessness during a stay at the Calcutta hospital where she was treated for heart problems, Henry Sebastian D&#8217;Souza said. &#8220;When doctors said they could not find a medical reason for her sleeplessness, I thought she might be getting attacked by the devil,&#8221; said D&#8217;Souza. &#8220;I wanted her to calm down and asked a priest, in the name of the church, to perform an exorcism prayer on her. She happily agreed.&#8221; After the half-hour procedure, the Macedonia-born nun &#8220;slept very well that night,&#8221; he said. The revelation has slightly embarrassed the Catholic Church, as candidates for sainthood are unusual subjects for exorcisms.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Religion News Service KOLKATA, INDIA, September 6, 2001: Amid fears she had become the victim of the devil, Mother,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}