‘Possessed’ nun’s 17th century letter about God finally translated

After Sister Maria Crocifissa della Concezione entered the Benedictine convent in Palma di Montechiaro at the age of 15, the nun claims she had become “possessed”.

Sister Maria woke up one morning in 1676, covered in ink and with a coded letter beside her bed, claiming the devil used her hands to scribe the message.

It’s understood the then 31-year-old told the other nuns about being possessed and forced to write the letter by Lucifer.

They believed her and put the letter on display in the convent, hoping someone could decode it.

Now, 340 years later, thanks to software used by intelligence agencies to decode messages, Italian scientists at Ludum Science Centre in Catania, Sicily, told The Times, they believe they’ve made some sense of the “devil’s letter”.

Using software found on the dark web, input with a combination of ancient Greek, Arabic, the Runic Greek alphabet and Latin, it’s understood the letter says God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost are “dead weights”.

"God thinks he can free mortals," another part of the letter says.

The letter also alleges that God and Zoroaster were both invented by man, adding: "this system works for no one".

"Perhaps now, Styx is certain," the letter’s also believed to say - making referencing to the mythological River Styx, which is believed to separate the Earth and the Underworld.

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However, after decoding 15 lines of the letter, scientists say the text is inconsistent and points more to the theory that Sister Maria was either schizophrenic or suffering from bipolar, rather than possessed.

They believe Sister Maria, who had an interest in linguistics, created the language herself using a combination of the other languages she had learned.

"I personally believe that the nun had a good command of languages, which allowed her to invent the code, and may have suffered from a condition like schizophrenia, which made her imagine dialogues with the Devil," Director of the Ludum Science Centre, Daniele Abate, told The Times.

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