51. Pope Stephen VI is Murdered, Rome, Italy 897

True Crime Medieval

English - October 28, 2021 17:00 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MB
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In 897, in Rome, Pope Stephen VI was strangled, in prison. There. That's the True Crime. We don't know who did it -- a representative of the people of Rome, we suppose. The interesting part of this crime is not that he got murdered, but why he got murdered. Which was that he had dug up the 7 months dead corpse of a predecessor and put it on trial. In fancy papal garb. With a deacon giving answers to questions, since the dead pope on trial couldn't do it. We bring you The Cadaver Synod! And Michelle finds musicals.