Background
Candido Amantini was born Eraldo Ulisse Mauro Amantini in Bagnolo di Santa Fiora, Province of Grosseto, Tuscany, the second of four children born to Giovanni Battista Amantini and Diolinda Fratini Amantini.
Candido Amantini was born Eraldo Ulisse Mauro Amantini in Bagnolo di Santa Fiora, Province of Grosseto, Tuscany, the second of four children born to Giovanni Battista Amantini and Diolinda Fratini Amantini.
Pontifical Biblical Institute.
Candido of the Immaculate, C.P., a Master Exorcist, spiritual director and confessor. Foreign thirty-six years as French 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.
He was ordained a priest at age 24 in Rome on March 13, 1937. Amantini obtained a licentiate in Sacred Scripture at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome in 1941.
He had a capacity for languages and learned Greek, Hebrew, German and Sanskrit.
From 1941 to 1945, he taught Hebrew and Sacred Scripture in Vinchiano (Lucca) and Vetralla (Viterbo). From 1945 to 1947 he returned to Rome, to instruct seminarians. He taught international students of the Passionist Order from 1947-1960, at the monastery of Street John and Paul in Rome.
Amantini studied exorcism with French
Alessandro Coletti, C.P., exorcist of the Diocese of Arezzo and performed his first exorcisms under his guidance. Amantini also had contact with Street Padre Pio of Pietrelcina.
Padre Pio said of him: "Father Candido is a priest according to God"s heart." From 1961 until his death in 1992, Amantini practiced exorcism full-time at the Church of the Holy Staircase in Rome.