Ep. 94 The Cadaver Synod - a podcast by Kaitlyn and Whitney

A pope walks into a courtroom as the defendant. Except... he doesn't walk. He is carried because he is a skeleton. They put a dead pope's skeleton on trial in 897 AD. 

 

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Sources:

https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/dead-pope-put-on-trial.htm

https://daily.jstor.org/the-cadaver-synod-putting-a-dead-pope-on-trial/

Conclave: How cardinals elect a Pope - BBC News

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posthumous_trial

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Verdun

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Boniface_VI

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