Don’t panic over ‘satanic rosary,’ public is urged

CEBU CITY – Cebu Archdiocesan Media Liaison Officer Monsignor Joseph Tan on Wednesday called on the public “not to be alarmed” following the posting of a video on social media over the weekend claiming that a “satanic” rosary was found at the Sto. Tomas de Villanueva Parish in Barangay Pardo in this city.

The video was posted by Louie Rusiana on his Facebook account on September 8, four days after reports that an exorcist had warned the public about the circulation of such rosaries.

In the video, Rusiana, who was alone in the church at the time, said he “accidentally found a real satanic Illuminati rosary below the cross of Jesus Christ” when he was about to offer a flower for the nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary last Friday.

The cyan-colored rosary had a snake wrapped around the crucifix and four suns with rays in each of the crucifixs’ sides.

A similar rosary was featured by Philippe de Guzman, Diocese of Novaliches Office of Exorcism (Libera Nox) Assistant Case Officer, in an August 7 episode of “Hello Father 911” of the diocese’s Radio Veritas.

De Guzman said the rosaries are often made of plastic and identified the symbols as parts of a pentagram and are an “insignia of the Illuminati.”

Fr. Ambrosio Legaspi, Libera Nox Chief Exorcist in the Novaliches diocese, said “sometimes, there are no symbols.” Instead, the rosaries have been “prayed over” by its makers, consecrating them to evil so that whoever uses it will be followed by evil spirits. (Kier Edison C. Belleza)