About the Author

Fr. Theophilus Riesinger (1868 - 1941), the exorcist of Begone Satan!, was ordained a priest in 1899. He was a Capuchin Franciscan. Although he was born in Germany, he later resided in Marathon, Wisconsin, in the United States, and performed the exorcism of Begone Satan! in Iowa. The exorcist-author of Mary Crushes the Serpent was a religious priest ordered by his bishop to set forth in writing his decades-long experiences as an exorcist. The editor, Fr. Gieger, kept his name secret, but recounts that he was reputed for his priestly zeal and untiring and heroic sacrifices. He died in 1909, at the age of seventy-seven, remembered and honored as a saintly man.