897: Pope Stephen VII, Cadaver Synod convener

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[CheshireTheCat]

n August 897 or so, the deposed Pope Stephen VII (or VI*) was executed (or just murdered) in prison by strangulation.

Details, you see, are thin on the ground here in the so-called Dark Ages. Rome has come down a bit in the world.

“The ruins of Rome,” quoth Gibbon,

presented the sad image of depopulation and decay: her slavery was a habit, her liberty an accident; the effect of superstition, and the object of her own amazement and terror. The last vestige of the substance, or even the forms, of the constitution, was obliterated from the practice and memory of the Romans; and they were devoid of knowledge, or virtue, again to build the fabric of a commonwealth. Their scanty remnant, the offspring of slaves and strangers, was despicable in the eyes of the victorious Barbarians. As often as the Franks or Lombards expressed their most bitter contempt of a foe, they called him a Roman;

“and in this name,” says the bishop Liutprand, “we include whatever is base, whatever is cowardly, whatever is perfidious, the extremes of avarice and luxury, and every vice that can prostitute the dignity of human nature.”

While the popes of the 10th century would really set that prostituted standard with the period known as the “pornocracy”, Stephen VI(I) makes everybody’s bad popes lists with one of the papacy’s all-time embarrassing events: the Cadaver Synod....

[Red Badger]

“The ruins of America, presented the sad image of depopulation and decay: her slavery was a habit, her liberty an accident; the effect of superstition, and the object of her own amazement and terror. The last vestige of the substance, or even the forms, of The Constitution, was obliterated from the practice and memory of the Americans; and they were devoid of knowledge, or virtue, again to build the fabric of a commonwealth. Their scanty remnant, the offspring of slaves and strangers, was despicable in the eyes of the victorious Globalist Elite.

As often as the Russians or Chinese expressed their most bitter contempt of a foe, they called him an American; “and in this name,” says the World Communist Party Chairman “we include whatever is base, whatever is cowardly, whatever is perfidious, the extremes of avarice and luxury, and every vice that can prostitute the dignity of human nature.”.................................

[j.havenfarm]

Not discussed in the article: The Cadaver Synod took place in the Lateran Palace, and extremely ancient palace gifted to the pope by Constantine in the 300’s. When the synod adjourned and everyone went outside, the palace collapsed. True it was an extremely old building, perhaps with over-deferred maintainable, but it was taken at the time as a sign of divine disfavor for the travesty that just occurred.

[married21]

Interesting. Thanks.