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When a dead Pope goes on trial, things get messy.
History holds some truly bizarre moments, but few compare to the Cadaver Synod. This chaotic event saw a deceased Pope Formosus exhumed and put on trial by his successor in a display of ecclesiastical madness. It is a wild look at how medieval political feuds could spiral into the absurd, proving that truth is often stranger than fiction. Dive ...
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