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The papacy during the middle ages was pretty hosed up but I think my favorite event was the Cadaver Synod. During the Cadaver Synod, the Vatican put a deceased Pope on trial. The deceased was found guilty. How do you put a deceased body on trial, you ask? You exhume the body, put it on a throne and have a deacon answer for him. I like to imagine the deacon crouched down behind the throne and answered "Boy, I sure am guilty" in a high-pitched voice. The punishment was to invalidate his papacy, cut off the three fingers used for blessings and throw the body into a river. The body later washes up and people claim it's granting miracles. The general public isn't too pleased with the trial so they imprison the pope in charge who is then strangled to death while imprisoned. The next pope says "just kidding" and invalidates the trial then re-buries the moist ex-pope body in the Vatican. Two popes after that, the newest pope decides on a double reverse and overturns the decision to invalidate the trial. (This pope was a judge on the original trial.) Luckily, it seems they left the body where it was this time,
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