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Possessed Nun’s 1676 Devilish Letter Translated
Sister Maria Crocifissa della Concezione claimed she woke up one day and found the letter, with no recollection of who wrote it.Though she believes she had been taken over by the devil who was using her hand to write with.
The letter was found at a convent in Sicily, where the nun had lived since she was 15.
Researchers said the nun was known to scream and faint at the altar of Palma di Montechiaro convent, saying the devil was trying to make her serve evil rather than good.
It uses Latin, Ancient Greek, the runic alphabet and Arabic to try and make sense of the characters – and came up with some decipherable phrases.
She wrote ‘this system works for no one’ and that humans invented God in the rambling letter.
She believed
‘God thinks he can free mortals,’ it reads, then refers to the river of the underworld saying ‘Perhaps now, Styx is certain’.
Not all of the letter could be translated, but enough could be to show the devilish nature of its content.
She described God and Jesus as ‘dead weights’ – a criminal heresy at the time.
‘I personally believe that the nun had a good command of languages, which allowed her to invent the code, and may have suffered from a condition like schizophrenia, which made her imagine dialogues with the Devil,’ Daniele Abate, director of the centre, told said.
He said the centre had been contacted by several Satanists after publishing its findings.
‘The whole world is talking about our work,’ a spokesman said.