Published Jun 6, 2023
The Cadaver Synod
Explore the bizarre and unprecedented Cadaver Synod, where political vendettas drove Pope Stephen VI to try the corpse of Pope Formosus, igniting public outcry and instability that led to a notorious era of papal corruption known as the pornocracy.
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