Johann Joseph Gassner
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Johann Joseph Gassner was a noted exorcist.
While a Catholic priest at Klösterle
he gained a wide celebrity by professing to "cast out devils" and to work cures on the sick by means simply of prayer; he was attacked as an impostor, but the bishop of Regensburg, who believed in his honesty, bestowed upon him the cure of Pondorf.
While a Catholic priest at Klösterle
Klösterle
Klösterle can refer to several places:* Klášterec nad Ohří, a town in the Czech Republic known in German as Klösterle an der Eger*Klösterle, Austria, a town in the district of Bludenz in Vorarlberg in Austria...
he gained a wide celebrity by professing to "cast out devils" and to work cures on the sick by means simply of prayer; he was attacked as an impostor, but the bishop of Regensburg, who believed in his honesty, bestowed upon him the cure of Pondorf.