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Still beaten by his predecessors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_Synod https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_Synod
by creshal 11y ago
Still beaten by his predecessors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_Synod https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_Synod
- peteretep 11y agoI came here to post that, but will instead have to mention Pope VIII, who drank the blood of 3 ten-year-old boys to try and stay alive...
- moonshinefe 11y agoamusing read, thanks
- creshal 11y agoThere's also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_IX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_IX : > Aged approximately 20 at his first election, he is one of the youngest popes in history. He is the only man to have been Pope on more than one occasion and the only man ever to have sold the papacy.