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References
- 1 2 ABC News, Putting Faith to the Test (Satan Unmasked), Joy Ciarcia-Levy and Richard Gerdau, May 8, 2007.
- ↑ Zenit, Italian Exorcists Dispel Misconceptions, September 23, 2005.
- ↑ The Gale Encyclopedia of the Unexplained, Religious Phenomena, page 205.
- ↑ Catholic News Agency, Mexicans Confront Satanism with National Meeting of Exorcists Archived 2004-10-30 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ http://www.elpais.com/articulo/Necrologicas/Giancarlo/Gramolazzo/lider/mundial/exorcistas/elpepinec/20101117elpepinec_1/Tes Obituary, El Pais, 17 Nov 2010 (Spanish).
