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The Cadaver Synod: the day a pope exhumed and tried a dead man in Rome

In the year 897, the Roman basilica of Saint John Lateran hosted one of the most macabre and bizarre legal episodes in medieval history.

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The Cadaver Synod: The bizarre trial that put a pope's corpse in the dock

In the year 897, Rome witnessed one of the most macabre episodes in its history: the formal trial and judicial conviction of a pontiff who had died nine months earlier.

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The Cadaver Synod: the day a pope exhumed and tried a dead man in Rome

The Cadaver Synod: The bizarre trial that put a pope's corpse in the dock