expiation

Anneliese Michel (born on 21 September 1952 in Leibfing, Bavaria, died on 1 July 1976 in Klingenberg am Main). She experienced a multiple possession. Fr. Ernst Alt, Anneliese’s spiritual guide, whom she let into her secrets, says that the girl voluntarily accepted the suffering accompanying a possession as expiation for other people’s sins. She became a sort of a prison for evil spirits, thus limiting their work in the world.