In January 897 AD, inside the Lateran Palace in Rome, Pope Stephen VI conducted the Cadaver Synod, a bizarre trial where the corpse of Pope Formosus—dead for nine months—was exhumed, dressed in papal vestments, and put on trial for alleged crimes against the Church, representing one of the most disturbing events in Catholic Church history.
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Rome. January in the year 897.
Inside the Lateran Palace behind heavy wooden doors, a trial is about to begin.
The accused has been brought into the chamber wearing the full sacred vestments of a pope. The palium drapes across his shoulders. The papal ring shines on his finger. His miter sits perfectly on his head. But something is wrong. He does not stand. He does not speak. His head tilts at an unnatural angle. The skin of his hands, the skin of his face. What is left of it has the gray leathered look of something that should not be in a room with the living.
Because the man on trial has been dead for nine months. His name is Pope Formosis.
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