Considering he was Pope in 896, I highly doubt that unless there's something you're not telling me about yourself. I doubt it, you seem pretty thrilled to be you, I'm sure if you were over five hundred years old I'd have heard about it by now.
Anyway-
[Not going to address the rest of it, gossip is far more fun,]
Pope Stephen VI went and put a corpse on trial because he really, really, really did not like Pope Formosus. Actually dug him up, put his moldy old corpse in a chair and appointed a fucking deacon to sit behind the thing and answer the questions for him. Can't tell you if they had the guy puppet him around too, but I'd like to imagine they put his arms on little sticks and waved them around.
You wouldn't believe it, but they found the corpse guilty of all charges, chopped off three fingers on its right hand, stripped it naked and chucked it in the Tiber.
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Anyway-
[Not going to address the rest of it, gossip is far more fun,]
Pope Stephen VI went and put a corpse on trial because he really, really, really did not like Pope Formosus. Actually dug him up, put his moldy old corpse in a chair and appointed a fucking deacon to sit behind the thing and answer the questions for him. Can't tell you if they had the guy puppet him around too, but I'd like to imagine they put his arms on little sticks and waved them around.
You wouldn't believe it, but they found the corpse guilty of all charges, chopped off three fingers on its right hand, stripped it naked and chucked it in the Tiber.