Yes, you read that right. In 897, the new, Pope Stephen VI, held such hatred and animosity toward his predecessor, Pope Formosus, that he put him on trial in Rome. One small detail, Pope Formosus had been dead for 7 months. Undeterred, Pope Stephen ordered his body exhumed from St. Peters. Then, Formosus’ decaying corpseContinue reading “The Macabre Corpse Trial of Pope Formosus”
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The Last Deadly Days of the Knights Templar
For almost 200 years, the famous Knights Templar had considerable power, wealth, and influence across Europe and the Mediterranean. But it all came to an abrupt and bloody end in 1314. The Knights were originally founded as a Christian monastic-military order, devoted to protecting pilgrims traveling to and from the Holy Land following the FirstContinue reading “The Last Deadly Days of the Knights Templar”