Father Angelo Fantoni (May 2, 1903 - August 28, 1992) was an Italian priest and exorcist who worked at Monte San Savino near Arezzo, Italy.
He was born in Italy on May 2, 1903 to Pietro Annunziata (Cipriani) Fantoni. He entered college at the age of seventeen in 1920 and was ordained a priest on March 18, 1930.
Father Fantoni became a noted Faith healer in his day but this ended up causing problems in Arezzo when the medical doctors collectively denounced him as a fraud because he healed without using medicine. Father Fantoni was to be imprisoned for a year and pay a 300,000 lire fine. However, when the vedict was appealled he was acquitted. The story is told in a 1999 book entitled Thanks, don Angelo! by Franco Predieri Thanks, Don Angel!.
His life and experiences as an exorcist are recorded in the book Don Angelo Fantoni: Testimonianze by Rita Buonomo.
Father Angelo Fantoni died in 1992. He is mentioned in Father Gabriele Amorth's book An Exorcist: More Stories.
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“Some theosophists have arrived at a certain hostility and indignation towards matter, as the Manichean and Plotinus. They distrusted in themselves any looking back to these flesh-pots of Egypt. Plotinus was ashamed of his body. In short, they might all say of matter, what Michael Angelo said of external beauty, “it is the frail and weary weed, in which God dresses the soul, which he has called into time.””
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