Father Peter Heier (September 16, 1895 – March 24, 1982), S.V.D. was a

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. Peter Heier was the son of George and Magdalena (Wolf) Heier. He was born in Kleinliebental (today Malodolynske/Малодолинське),

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. His family immigrated to the United States and settled in North Dakota. Heier studied for the priesthood and was stationed in Hague, North Dakota, where he also served as an

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. He served as a Divine Word missionary in China, where he was put in charge of a noted demonic possession case in 1926 and again in 1929, concerning a Chinese woman named Lautien in

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, China. The case was printed up in a pamphlet entitled ''Begone Satan'' by Father Celestine Kapsner in 1928. Heier died in

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."United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J1MN-6Z2 : 8 January 2021), Peter Heier, Mar 1982; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).

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A Sensational Expulsion of the Devil Which Occurred in Iowa in 1928
Year of death missing American Roman Catholic priests Roman Catholic missionaries in China Catholic exorcists People from Emmons County, North Dakota 1895 births Ukrainian emigrants to the United States American Roman Catholic missionaries American expatriates in China Catholics from North Dakota American exorcists {{US-Christian-clergy-stub