Business of the demons of Loudun

The business of the demons of Loudun , also called business of had of Loudun is a Chasse for the witch launched by the Cardinal of Richelieu in the Années 1630, against the priest Catholique Urbain Grandier, of the town of Loudun, in France.

History

In 1634, in a convent of Ursuline S in Loudun, the sisters have summers victims of paranormaux facts: they affirmed to see phantoms, and to be bewitched by the priest Urbain Grandier.

This last had published a violent lampoon against Richelieu. Moreover, he was firmly opposed to the destruction walls of the city. Indeed, the city contained a great number of Protestants. Henri IV had enabled them to have strengthened places, but the walls of some of these cities were destroyed. Richelieu at the time made build its city, which by its existence could thus cause the bankruptcy of Loudun. The tolerance of Urbain Grandier towards the Protestants played in his discredit.

It is a sister of the being said convent had by the demon of Asfaroth which released the name of Urbain Grandier. A lawsuit in sorcery was informed on the request of Richelieu. One proceeded to many Exorcisme S on the sisters. They lasted several months and sometimes several years. One also sought a pact with the Diable signed hand of Urbain Grandier. In his absence, one tried to find one of them on the body even sisters and for that were exposed and shaven. One tried finds a zone insensitive on their bodies, proof of the contact with the claw of the demon. Urbain Grandier was condemned to death, was tortured and burned. It the Jura always to be innocent

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