Posted on 03/26/2009 6:09:31 AM PDT by NYer
French media reported the case on Wednesday.
‘I had visions in a dream. I saw that I was the Devil,’ said the 34-year old woman to police officers after her arrest.
Her apartment in Lourdes was replete with crucifixes. She killed her 81-year old mother with one of the crucifixes and a lamp.
After the murder on Monday evening she telephoned the authorities who found her smeared with blood. The woman has been committed to a psychiatric hospital.
Lourdes is a world famous place of pilgrimage in the south of France drawing millions of Catholics every year in the hope of being cured of their ailments.
This would happen after a visit to the cave where the Virgin Mary appeared to the desperately ill Bernadette Soubirous in the nineteenth century.
In 1933, Bernadette, who died at age thirty-five, was beatified by Pope Pius XI.
The devil takes many forms. Prayers for both women.
Good way to get off using the insanity defense.
She could be right.
Yikes. RIP.
sounds like a paranoid schizophrenic...a demon possessed person wouldn’t touch a crucifix, but someone with deep paranoid delusions would...
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