Caitlin Doughty | THE TRIAL OF THE CORPSE POPE! @AskAMortician | Uploaded September 2017 | Updated October 2024, 4 days ago.
That one time Pope Stephen VII put the corpse of Pope Formosus on trial. The Middle Ages were magic.

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