Some nuns in Ireland violated quarantine to perform exorcism in front of Parliament

A group of Irish nuns He has been at the center of the storm since it became known that they had participated in a ceremony to “expel demons” from parliament on December 8 last year, as the country faced a difficult quarantine.

As revealed by local media Irish Examiner, sisters Irene Gibson and Anne Marie, They traveled from Cork to Dublin at a time when long distance travel was banned in Ireland.

The nuns, members of the Discalced Carmelites of the Sacred Face of Jesus, traveled 135 miles, that is to say 217 kilometers, in order to attend the ceremony of exorcism del Dáil (the House of Assembly) a few days before Christmas.

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The Dáil is the Irish lower house of the Oireachtas, which also includes the President of Ireland and Seanad Éireann, the upper house of the Irish legislature.

The nuns participated in the exorcism and later a mass in Herbert Park, located in Dublin. The event brought together 70 people, while the limit was set at 15 people at the time.

The mass of controversy

After a ceremony at the door of the public building, the religious made a procession to Herbert Park, located three kilometers away.

The father Giacomo Balli, belonging to a group which broke with the Catholic Church and which is called the Resistance Society of Saint Pio, was in charge of the mass. “No human power can withdraw the right to celebrate Mass”, he declared in front of the faithful.

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Neither Father Balli’s society nor the Cork religious group formally belong to the Catholic Church. In public, they present themselves as representatives of the “true Catholic faith according to the sacred tradition before Vatican Council II ”.

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Gibson y Anne Marie They had already drawn media attention in 2019, when they were forced to leave their place of residence in the village of Leap for violating town planning rules. They have to go in June of this year to a new home and for that they have launched a collective fundraising campaign on the page GoFundMe. Until Tuesday, they had raised 78,000 euros.

Until now, the religious They did not want to make statements to the press.

Due to restrictions, this year there will be no St. Patrick’s Day

For the second year in a row, Ireland decided to suspend its traditional festivities of Saint Patrick, which usually gather hundreds of thousands of people in its streets each the 17th of March.

“We cannot rally in the streets for the St. Patrick’s Day Parade on March 17th, but we will reinvent how to bring the heart and soul of the national parade to life, ”organizers said when the bad news was announced in January this year.