old thread: >The Cadaver Synod (also called the Cadaver Trial; Latin: Synodus Horrenda) is the name commonly given to the posthumous ecclesiastical trial of Pope Formosus, held in the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome during January of 897.[1] The trial was conducted by the successor, Pope Stephen (VI) VII, to Formosus' successor, Pope Boniface VI. Stephen accused Formosus of perjury and of having acceded to the papacy illegally. At the end of the trial, Formosus was pronounced guilty and his papacy retroactively declared null.
The macabre spectacle turned public opinion in Rome against Stephen. Rumors circulated that Formosus' body, after washing up on the banks of the Tiber, had begun to perform miracles. A public uprising led to Stephen being deposed and imprisoned. While in prison, in July or August 897, he was strangled.
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Lincoln Johnson
Y'all liking the new Sumac? New Russian Circles hype???
Justin Garcia
150 mg diphenhydramine + 8 oz rum = severe blackout followed by sleep
Eli Barnes
Who's the madman that threw the people's corpse in the river
Adam Thompson
post that shit
Liam Thompson
His successor had Formosus's fingers chopped off and his body thrown into the Tiber. Cutting off the fingers was symbolic to annulling the pope's consecrations (basically a gesture to bless something). A monk later retrieved the body and claimed that it preformed "miracles." Peasants absolutely lost their shit and turned public opinion against the new pope who was thrown in prison and strangled by a lunatic cellmate.
