In 897 AD, the Catholic Church staged the most gruesome judicial trial in history: The Cadaver Synod. Pope Stephen VI exhumed the decaying body of Pope Formosus, sat the corpse on a throne in the Basilica of St. John Lateran, and subjected it to a formal trial for ecclesiastical treason.
In this episode, we explore:
The Political Chaos: How the fall of the Carolingian Empire plunged Rome into the Papal Dark Ages.
The Trial of Pope Formosus: Why Pope Stephen VI took revenge on a dead predecessor nine months after his death.
The Verdict & Punishment: The shocking ritual strip-down, the severing of the "blessing fingers," and Formosus’s body being thrown into the Tiber River.
The Aftermath: The imprisonment and strangulation of Pope Stephen VI, and how the Church handled the scandal.
If you like your history dark, weird, gripping and gruesome then you're in the right place. this episode breaks down every jaw-dropping detail of the infamous Synodus Horrenda.
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