
"Made Bishop of Agagni by Pope Formosus, you became Pope yourself in 896 by putting your immediate predecessor, Boniface VI, to death. Your reign lasted all of fourteen months. However, you firmly assured your place in history by putting the rotting corpse of the aforementioned Formosus on trial in the splendidly named Synod Horrenda. Naturally, Formosus was clad in full papal vestments. Having dug up the stinking remains once already, you proceeded to have them found guilty, reburied, re-exhumed, relieved of the three fingers of the right hand used in consecrations and finally thrown into the Tiber. All ordinations performed by the luckless Formosus were annulled. After this delightful display of gratitude, you were promptly strangled, paving the way for an increasingly short-lived series of successors and the reinstatement, dereinstatement and rereinstatement of Formosus' Papal deeds."
Should this worry me?
Posted by Discoshaman at décembre 17, 2005 12:30 AM | TrackBack
So who was "discoshaman" before you??? Starting to wonder . . .
Posted by: Paul Baxter at décembre 17, 2005 11:57 AMAhhh, that's crazy haha I love it, I'm going to go take the test.
Posted by: Lara at décembre 17, 2005 12:56 PMYes, this should probably worry you. Also, the fact that I took the test should worry me. The fact that others have been influenced by you to take it should worry all of us.
Results at my place--I'm a mad French monarch. Go figure. Meh.
:-)
Cheers,
PGE