EP 242 - Poison, plots and penance: Terrible Popes Through History

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Ep 242 is loose! And we're taking a look at some of the worst popes in history - criminals, plotters, and madmen.

Why did so many Popes live debauched lives? Why was a dead pope put on trial at Cadaver Synod? And who was plotting to poison Pope Leo X in an...unusual way?

The secret ingredient is...a pope!

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Sources this week include:

https://medium.com/@mwfraser/the-cadaver-synod-when-the-corpse-of-a-dead-pope-was-put-on-trial-and-executed-1c9f3b82b11f

https://daily.jstor.org/the-cadaver-synod-putting-a-dead-pope-on-trial/

https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/dead-pope-put-on-trial.htm

https://www.businessinsider.com/crazy-popes-in-history-2017-1#julius-ii-had-a-bad-case-of-syphilis-8

https://www.thesmartset.com/article05111001/

https://theconversation.com/the-ostentatious-story-of-the-young-pope-leo-x-his-pet-elephant-the-cardinal-he-killed-and-his-anal-fistula-171499

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/morbid-monday-cadaver-synod

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/theres-elephant-buried-beneath-vatican-180957013/

https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/murder-vatican

https://reformation500.csl.edu/pope-leo-x/

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