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What did Pope Stephen VI put on trial in the Lateran in January 897?
Formosus's nine-month-old corpse was dressed in vestments, tried, convicted, mutilated, and thrown into the Tiber. Stephen VI was strangled within the year.
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The Cadaver Synod of January 897, in Which Pope Stephen VI Put the Corpse of Pope Formosus on Trial In January 897 Pope Stephen VI had the nine-month-old corpse of his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, dressed in papal vestments, propped on a throne in the Lateran, and formally tried for perjury and coveting the papacy. The corpse was convicted, mutilated, and thrown into the Tiber.
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