In Russia, there are almost no those who practice a mysterious and eerie rite, which in the West is called exorcism. Official science does not undertake to explain what actually happens in the eerie sessions of exorcism of demons. And Patriarch Kirill himself said that even he was scared to see how evil spirits emerge from ordinary-looking people.
The Church of St. John the Warrior, on the outskirts of Novokuznetsk, stands literally on the way to hell - right behind it is the Zyryanovskaya mine, where 67 miners were killed. Father Basil drives out demons twice a week - on Mondays and Thursdays. 20 years ago, Father Vasily rebuilt the old barrack into a temple and discovered an unusual gift in himself. The demons themselves in his presence experience hellish torments.
As soon as he begins to lecture (as the rite of exorcism is called in Orthodoxy), such things begin to happen in the church, even if you endure the saints. The priest from the Urals thundered all over the country 10 years ago thanks to television and the talkative demon of Baba Lyuba.
Since then, there has been no end to the pilgrims who want to drive out evil spirits of all stripes. Yes, and in the local residents, the demon starts up with enviable regularity.
To fight evil spirits, father Vasily has his own proven remedy - vegetable oil. Another would have long ago put the production of oil with antibesov additives on stream, and even sued Mikhalkov for the Besogon trademark. But the priest has only expenses from the labors of the righteous - now the possessed will tear the robe, then spill oil, then make bruises.
Science cannot explain what is happening in the church, so it is skeptical just in case. Psychiatrist Vladimir Fainzilberg diagnoses mass psychosis.
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And in the church itself there are those who do not share Fr. Vasily's methods and even criticize. Father Anatoly, a neuropathologist by education, runs a rehabilitation center for alcoholics and drug addicts. Those who need help after seemingly healing rituals of casting out demons are often brought here.
But the inhabitants of the Abashevo demonic anomaly are sure that their life goes on as usual only thanks to the intercession of Father Vasily. After all, every day, together with the parishioners, demons sneak into the church, and his patrol begins.
And every resident of a small mining village is even scared to imagine what would have happened if they had not had this shield that protects the fragile world from evil spirits, notes NTV correspondent Yulia Shatilova.