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A parish priest has been receiving text messages.......from the devil.

Fr Marian Rajchel believes he is being tormented by Satan over an exorcism on a teenage girl which when horribly wrong.

The Prince of Darkness has now warned him that “anyone who prays for her will die”.

He said that his efforts to drive out the evil spirit clearly failed and the forces of evil have now taken over the girl.

He said: “The author of these texts is an evil spirit who has possessed her soul.”

Fr Rajchel said one of the text messages taunted him for failing to perform the exorcism.

He said one text read: “She will not come out of this hell. She’s mine. Anyone who prays for her will die.”

Fr Rajchel, who is the parish priest of Jaroslaw, a town in south-eastern Poland, said he started getting the texts soon after her performed the ritual on the girl.

He said that the devil and his followers have moved into the modern age and are familiar with new technology.

He warned the public not to be fooled as their actions are not always recognised as evil.

He told the Austrian Times: “Often the owners of mobile phones are not even aware that they are been used like this, however in this case it is clear.”

But Fr Rajchel was not afraid of the threatening texts and went ahead and prayed for the girl’s soul.

But he was shocked when the devil replied with another text which read: “Shut up, preacher. You cannot save yourself. Idiot. You pathetic old preacher.”

Fr Rajchel added: “Clearly this young girl has been possessed, and needs further help.”

While the public may be sceptical about such events the Vatican is most certainly not.

The Pope recently gave his blessing to the church body which represents exorcists.

Pope Francis publicly backed the priests who battle against the devil and perform exorcisms on those possessed by evil spirits.

The Vatican now officially recognises the 250 priests in 30 countries known as the International Association of Exorcists.

The organisation is considered the most respectable practitioners of a rite that is widely performed around the world and was formed by the charismatic priest Gabriele Amorth in 1991.

More than his predecessors, Pope Francis speaks openly about the devil, and last year was seen placing his hands on the head of a man in St Peter’s Square purportedly possessed by four demons in what exorcists said was a prayer of liberation from Satan.