In 897 AD, the Catholic Church staged a disturbing event that still shocks historians. Pope Stephen VI demanded that the body of his predecessor, Pope Formosus, be dug up and placed on trial in Rome.

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from The Cadaver Synod The year is 897. Pope Stephen the sixth or seventh, is holding a trial against his predecessor Formosus, and you have been chosen as ...

Le Pape Formose et Étienne VII (“Pope Formosus and Stephen VII”), oil on canvas by Jean-Paul Laurens, 1870. (Credit: Stock image.) Listen ROME – Pope Francis has invested synods of bishops with a ...

Stage 31, The Nancy Power Theatre at the Roxy, 10708 124 St. Silliness abounds in this new work by Sebastian Ley that speculates on whether a dead pope can be held responsible for purported crimes ...

Plenty of odd things have been put on trial—animals, statues, a washerwoman's vat—but there's only one occasion in history that a dead body has gone before a papal court. The Cadaver Synod (Synodus ...

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Silliness abounds in this new work by Sebastian Ley that speculates on whether a dead pope can be held responsible for purported crimes committed when he was alive. Directed by Kathleen Weiss, Cadaver ...