About Peter Heier
Lived 1895 – 1982 (aged 86–87). Peter Heier was an American missionary.
Father Peter Heier (September 16, 1895 – March 24, 1982), S.V.D. was a Roman Catholic priest of Hague, North Dakota.
Peter Heier was the son of George and Magdalena (Wolf) Heier. He was born in (today Malodolynske), Ukraine. 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 exorcist. 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 Henan, China. The case was printed up in a pamphlet entitled Begone Satan by Father Celestine Kapsner in 1928.
Heier died in Rochester, New York, on March 24, 1982, at the age of 86.
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American missionary
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Peter Heier was born in 1895 in Malodolynske.
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Peter Heier died on 24 March 1982 in Rochester.
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Peter Heier was a missionary.
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Peter Heier was American.
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