Leo XIII’s Vision and the Line Removed from the Saint Michael Prayer

Leo XIII’s Vision and the Line Removed from the Saint Michael Prayer

In 1890, Pope Leo XIII had a prayer against Satan published in the official acts of the Holy See, and it contained a startling line: in the very place where the Chair of Peter stands, the enemies of the Church “have placed the throne of their abominable impiety.” That line is no longer in the Saint Michael prayer the Church uses today.

In this video we tell the true story of Leo XIII’s vision. You’ll hear the account of Father Domenico Pechenino, who saw the Pope stare at something above the altar during Mass, and the testimony of Cardinal Nasalli Rocca about the “infernal spirits gathering over the Eternal City.” We follow the birth of the Saint Michael prayer, said on bended knee at the end of every Mass for nearly eighty years. Then we turn to the original text of the 1890 exorcism, where that line can still be found, and to why you won’t find it anymore.

Finally, we look at the link to Pope Leo XIV, who chose the name of Leo XIII and went into the hospital on October 13.

At the end, we pray the Saint Michael prayer together for the Pope, for the Church and for our families. If you pray it with us, write “Amen” in the comments and entrust the name of someone you love to Saint Michael.

🙏 Prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel
Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

CHAPTERS
00:00 The line written in 1890
00:43 One morning in a Vatican chapel
01:26 The Pope stares above the altar
02:04 What Leo XIII saw
03:24 The prayer said in every church
03:57 The 1890 exorcism and the throne
05:20 Where did that line go?
05:59 Who was Leo XIII talking about?
07:03 The prayer returns: John Paul II and Francis
07:59 Leo XIV and the name of Leo XIII
09:02 Let us pray together to Saint Michael

SOURCES

Exorcismus in Satanam et angelos apostaticos, in Acta Sanctae Sedis, vol. XXIII (1890–91), pp. 743–746: https://www.vatican.va/archive/ass/documents/ASS-23-1890-91-ocr.pdf
Rituale Romanum, 1902 edition, with the shortened text of the exorcism
D. Pechenino, in La Settimana del Clero (1947); testimony reprinted in Ephemerides Liturgicae, vol. LXIX (1955), pp. 54–60
Card. G.B. Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano, Pastoral Letter for Lent, Bologna, 1946
Leo XIII, encyclical Dall’alto dell’Apostolico Seggio, October 15, 1890
Sacred Congregation of Rites, instruction Inter Oecumenici, September 26, 1964
John Paul II, Regina Caeli, April 24, 1994: https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/angelus/1994/documents/hf_jp-ii_reg_19940424_it.html
Holy See Press Office, communiqué of September 29, 2018, on Pope Francis’s call to pray the Rosary and the Saint Michael prayer: https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2018/09/29/180929d.html
Film of Pope Leo XIII, 1896, W.K.L. Dickson

Some scenes in this video are AI reconstructions.

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