My uncle, Jeremy Davies, who has died aged 87, was the chief exorcist for the Catholic church in England and Wales.

His religious beliefs were utterly alien to me. His views on the role of the devil in daily life were variously horrible (“homosexuality is the work of the devil”) and absurd (yoga just as bad). Because of an ancient breach in our family tree, I never met him until March 2020, just as the pandemic was descending. It was a strange encounter.