Brennan in Robert Thorn's office in The Omen (1976).
Father Brennan was a priest and former Satanist who tried to warn Robert Thorn that his son Damien was the Antichrist before being killed by a metal rod.
Biography[]
Brennan was born to a poor mother who resorted to eating raw fish when she became too weak to forage for firewood, and subsequently died as a result; leaving Brennan orphaned. Brennan was taken in by an order of priests who regularly beat him in an attempt to get him to love God. He eventually accepted Christ and became a priest, and went on a mission to Africa. There, he met an African boy and converted him the same way Brennan himself had been converted by the priests.
Brennan sexually abused the boy until they were later discovered. The boy was then mutilated while Brennan managed to escape. It was then that he became involved, through Father Spiletto, with the Satanic cult. The Satanist order enjoyed lust and other sins without guilt. This was attractive to Brennan, as he desired to live his life in such a way. He was indoctrinated into Devil worship. When Satan accepted Brennan as a follower, he developed a mark on the inside of his right thigh in the shape of three sixes. He became more and more involved with Satanism and worked politically in Asia and Africa for Spiletto to help spread war and usher dictators to power.
Brennan was then chosen by Spiletto to help arrange the rape of a jackal in order to conceive the Antichrist. He was among the followers who participated in the birth of the Antichrist and the murder of the Thorns' newborn baby. His exact role is unknown, but he was present the night Damien was delivered from the womb of a jackal, and may have been responsible for the murder of the Thorns' infant before escaping.
Years later, Brennan began to suffer nightmares regarding his past, and in a dream Jesus Christ visited him and told him that he was still welcome in Heaven if he repented. Brennan ignored the dreams, and they eventually stopped.
Brennan sees the rod that will kill him.
Eventually, Brennan was diagnosed with cancer, and it became so bad that he had to take morphine twice a day, Brennan decided to try to warn the Thorns that their son Damien was the Antichrist so that Christ would forgive him for his former Satanism. He travelled to Israel first to meet the exorcist Bugenhagen, then to London to warn the Thorns about Damien. He feared evil spirits so greatly that he covered his apartment's walls and windows with pages of the Bible and his apartment's door with crucifixes, in an attempt to keep the evil out. He also followed Damien's adopted father, Robert Thorn, for a long time.
The Omen (1976)[]
The day after Damien turns five, Brennan visits Robert Thorn at the American Embassy in London to warn him about Damien. He tries to get Robert to take communion, and reveals that he saw Damien's birth and knows who his biological mother is. However, Robert mistakes what Brennan is trying to tell him for blackmail, and, before Brennan can reveal Damien's unholy origins, Robert has him removed from his office and escorted from Embassy.
Brennan's death.
Afterwards, Brennan begins following Robert. One day, Brennan meets Robert at a rugby match and instructs him to met him the next day in Bishop's Park at 2:30; warning him that his wife Katherine is in danger and will die if he doesn't come. The next day, Robert meets Brennan in Bishop's Park as instructed. He explains to Robert that his adoptive son Damien is the Antichrist, and that Kathy is pregnant and that Damien will kill the unborn baby, then Kathy, then Robert himself. Brennan instructs Robert as well to go to Tel Megiddo, where Bugenhagen can show him how to kill Damien.
However, Robert does not believe Brennan and demands that he never see him again, then leaves. A storm then starts, and Brennan runs to a church to seek shelter inside. However, the church doors are locked, and before Brennan can find another way, lightning strikes the church's lightning rod. The rod falls from the roof and impales Brennan down through his shoulder, killing him almost instantly.
Omens[]
- Keith Jennings' photographs of Brennan all showed a dark rod-shaped anomaly over Brennan, which was more solid and closer to Brennan's body the more recently before Brennan's death they were taken.
Relationships[]
Robert Thorn[]
Robert strongly disliked Brennan for claiming that Damien was the Antichrist, and because he incorrectly believed at one point that Brennan was trying to blackmail him. This attitude of his began to change after his mysterious death.
Carl Bugenhagen[]
Brennan and Bugenhagen knew one another. The relationship between the two is because Brennan traveled to Israel to ask help to Bugenhagen years after the birth of the Antichrist to repent from his sins; Bugenhagen appear to be slightly saddened when he discovered that Brennan was dead.
Father Spiletto[]
Brennan was involved in the Satanist Cult after revealing his sins to Father Spiletto, directly by him. He worked for Spiletto in South East Asia and Africa to spread war and violence. Spiletto chose him to be one of the three Apostles of the Beast to make sure the birth of the Antichrist in Rome.
Mrs. Baylock[]
Brennan and Mrs. Baylock (under the name of Sister Teresa) both worked together with Spiletto in the night of the birth of the Antichrist.