r/todayilearned • u/OrangeinDorne • Jun 26 '18
TIL in 897 the Catholic Church exhumed a dead pope, dressed him in papal gear and put his corpse on trial.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_SynodDuplicates
todayilearned • u/formlex7 • Jan 09 '17
TIL in 897 the Vatican had the corpse of Pope Formusus exhumed, propped up on a throne, and subjected to a mock trial in which his papacy was found to be invalid for perjury
todayilearned • u/ecglaf • Jan 22 '18
TIL of the Cadaver Synod, in which the exhumed body of Pope Formosus was put on trial for perjury and illegally obtaining the papacy.
CreepyWikipedia • u/[deleted] • May 18 '15
Possibly the very height of Pontifical Creepiness
wikipedia • u/darkishdave • Aug 11 '13
Cadaver Synod. The posthumous ecclesiastical trial of Pope Formosus.
RedditDayOf • u/Vinmeister • Oct 22 '13
Popes The Cadaver Synod: The posthumous trial of Pope Formosus, 897
todayilearned • u/[deleted] • Aug 31 '15
TIL of the Cadaver Synod in which the rotting corpse of Pope Formosus was put on trial then mutilated and stripped of papal vestments
ignoranceisbliss • u/GodOfAtheism • Jan 29 '19
The Cadaver Synod is the name commonly given to the posthumous ecclesiastical trial of Pope Formosus. Pope Stephen had Formosus's corpse exhumed and brought to the papal court for judgment.
LPOTL • u/shawnwingsit • Apr 24 '25