176 The Cadaver Synod
from The Weird History Podcast Hosted by Joe Streckert
In 897 Pope Stephen VI put the corpse of one of his predecessors, Formosus, on trial. The current pope ordered that the former pope’s dead body be dressed in papal finery and put on a throne to stand trial. Stephen […]
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