46 Facts About Malachi Martin

Disillusioned by the council, Malachi Martin asked to be released from certain aspects of his Jesuit vows in 1964 and moved to New York City.

Malachi Martin's works included The Scribal Character of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Hostage to the Devil, which dealt with Satanism, demonic possession, and exorcism.

Malachi Martin was born in Ballylongford, County Kerry, Ireland, to a middle-class family in which the children were raised speaking Irish at the dinner table.

Malachi Martin attended Belvedere College in Dublin, then studied philosophy for three years at University College Dublin.

Malachi Martin taught for three years, spending four years at Milltown Park, Dublin, and was ordained in August 1954.

Malachi Martin started postgraduate studies at both the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the University of Oxford.

Malachi Martin specialized in intertestamentary studies, Jesus in Jewish and Islamic sources, Ancient Hebrew and Arabic manuscripts.

Malachi Martin undertook additional study in rational psychology, experimental psychology, physics, and anthropology.

Malachi Martin participated in the research on the Dead Sea Scrolls and published 24 articles on Semitic palaeography.

Malachi Martin did archaeological research and worked extensively on the Byblos syllabary in Byblos, in Tyre, and in the Sinai Peninsula.

Malachi Martin assisted in his first exorcism while working in Egypt for archaeological research.

Malachi Martin became friends with Monsignor George Gilmary Higgins and Father John Courtney Murray.

In Rome, Malachi Martin became a professor at the Pontifical Biblical Institute, where he taught Aramaic, Hebrew, palaeography, and Sacred Scripture.

Malachi Martin taught theology, part-time, at Loyola University Chicago's John Felice Rome Center.

Malachi Martin worked as a translator for the Eastern Orthodox Churches and Ancient Oriental Churches Division of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity under Bea.

Malachi Martin became acquainted with Jewish leaders, such as Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, in 1961 and 1962.

Malachi Martin accompanied Pope Paul VI on a trip to Jordan in January 1964.

Malachi Martin resigned his position at the Pontifical Institute in June 1964.

In 1964, Malachi Martin requested a release from his vows and from the Jesuit Order.

Malachi Martin maintained that he remained a priest, saying that he had received a dispensation from Paul VI to that effect.

Malachi Martin moved to New York City in 1966, working as a dishwasher, a waiter, and taxi driver, while continuing to write.

Malachi Martin co-founded an antiques firm and was active in communications and media for the rest of his life.

Malachi Martin then published Three Popes and the Cardinal: The Church of Pius, John and Paul in its Encounter with Human History and Jesus Now.

In 1969, Malachi Martin received a second Guggenheim Fellowship, allowing him to write his first of four bestsellers, Hostage to the Devil: The Possession and Exorcism of Five Living Americans.

Malachi Martin served as religious editor for the National Review from 1972 to 1978.

Malachi Martin was interviewed twice by William F Buckley, Jr.

Malachi Martin published several works of fiction and non-fiction in the following years:.

Malachi Martin was a periodic guest on Art Bell's radio program, Coast to Coast AM, between 1996 and 1998.

Malachi Martin was strongly supported by some Traditionalist Catholic sources and severely criticized by other sources, such as the National Catholic Reporter.

Malachi Martin served as a guest commentator for CNN during the live coverage of the visit of Pope John Paul II to the United States in October 1995.

In 1999, Malachi Martin died in Manhattan of an intracerebral haemorrhage, four days after his 78th birthday.

The documentary Hostage to the Devil claimed that Malachi Martin said he was pushed from a stool by a demonic force.

Malachi Martin's funeral took place in St Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in West Orange, New Jersey, before burial at Gate of Heaven Cemetery, in Hawthorne, New York.

Malachi Martin said that false pretenses were used in obtaining earlier his recommendation.

In March 1997, Malachi Martin claimed on Radio Liberty's Steel on Steel, that two popes were murdered during the 20th century:.

Malachi Martin stated that, along with diabolic possession, angelic possession exists and that angels could have use of preternatural powers in certain circumstances.

Malachi Martin partially gave credence to the Siri thesis, saying that Cardinal Giuseppe Siri was twice elected pope in papal conclaves, but declined his election after being pressured by so-called worldly forces acting through cardinals present at the conclaves.

Malachi Martin claimed that John XXIII and Paul VI were Freemasons during a certain period and that photographs and other detailed documents proving this were in the possession of the Vatican State Secretariat.

Malachi Martin allegorically mentioned these supposed facts in his 1986 novel Vatican: A Novel, where he related the Masonic adherence of Pope Giovanni Angelica and Giovanni De Brescia.

Malachi Martin claimed that Archbishop Annibale Bugnini was a Freemason and that Agostino Casaroli, long-time Cardinal Secretary of State, was an atheist.

The Traditionalist Catholic website Daily Catholic said in 2004 that Father Vincent O'Keefe, former Vicar General of the Society of Jesus and a past President of Fordham University, stated that Malachi Martin had never been laicized.

The Daily Catholic said its 2004 statement was based on one by William Kennedy, according to which the declaration of Malachi Martin's laicization was mounted in retaliation for his book The Jesuits, which accused the Jesuits of deviating from their original character and mission by embracing liberation theology.

Malachi Martin's mission was to ordain priests and bishops for the underground churches of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

Kaplan lastly states that Malachi Martin was the primary source of information for Joseph Roddy in writing his 1966 article for Look Magazine, and that O'Boyle-Fitzharris was, in fact, Malachi Martin.

Elsewhere, Malachi Martin admitted some of his work involved intelligence gathering behind the Iron Curtain and throughout the Middle East, and at times threatening cardinals with blackmail if they did not want to do what Bea and John XXIII wanted from them at the council.

Rumours appearing on various Catholic or sedevacantist websites and magazines alleged that Martin had Jewish ancestry that descended from Iberian Jews who migrated to Medieval Ireland and the Kingdom of England in the 15th century, and alleged him being an Israeli spy because of his first name, Malachi, after a Hebrew prophet and his extensive travels in the Levant.