In an interesting turn of events, the latest batch of Roman Catholic Saints to be canonized includes Bartolo Longo, a Catholic turned atheist, turned Satanist priest who ended up as a third-order Dominican.
Here’s one news story about the event:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-saints-pope-leo-ex-satanic-priest-doctor-of-the-poor/
And a bit on his Satanic experiences from a site of the Catholic order he eventually joined:
…he began to visit some of Naples’ infamous mediums. That was his introduction into the occult. Soon, his thirst for the supernatural led him into outright Satanism, where after a period of intense study and such rigorous fasting that he was reduced to skin and bones, he was consecrated a satanic priest and promised his soul to a demon. For the next year, he began to preside over satanic services and to preach more boldly and blasphemously against God and the Church…
Read the whole piece:
https://dominicanfriars.org/former-satanist-priest-became-saint/
