Candido Amantini was what type of priest, able to cast out demons?
Candido Amantini Candido Amantini (January 31, 1914 – September 22, 1992), was the Italian Roman Catholic Passionist Priest Rev. Fr. Candido of the Immaculate, C.P., a Master Exorcist, spiritual director and confessor. For thirty-six years as Fr. Amantini he was Rome's chief exorcist. Stationed at the Church of the Holy Staircase, he often saw 60 to 80 people per day. He also taught Sacred Scripture and Moral Theology. He wrote a book entitled "Il Mistero di Maria", about the Virgin Mary.
Paolo Grillandi Paolo Grillandi (born c. 1490) was an Italian jurist, from Abruzzo, active as a papal judge in witch trials, from 1517. He was an influential observer of confessions. His book "Tractatus de hereticis et sortilegiis" (1536), based substantially on his judicial experience, became a standard text on witchcraft and demonology. Other related works are his "De Questionibus et tortura tractatus", "De relaxatione carceratorum", and the "De Lamiis" of Gianfrancesco Ponzinibio that was later printed with the "Tractatus de hereticis et sortilegiis". James Franklin writes