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The Cadaver Synod (also called the Cadaver Trial; Latin: Synodus Horrenda) is the name commonly given to the ecclesiastical trial of Pope Formosus, who had been dead for about seven months, in the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome during January 897. [1]
Jean-Paul Laurens, Le Pape Formose et Étienne VI, 1870; Stephen (at left) accuses the corpse of his predecessor Formosus (seated right). Pope Stephen VI (Latin: Stephanus VI; died August 897) was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from 22 May 896 to his death.
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1. Information on the historical sources for our narrative of the Cadaver Synod, including Auxilius and Vulgarius, two tenth-century authors who give us most of the details. 2. Information on the 898 Council of Ravenna (which probably deserves its own article), which revoked the decrees of the Synod 3.
Victims show a high likelihood of having died in their sleep, or of having been unable to move once they had caught fire. Smoking is often seen as the source of fire. [16] Natural causes such as heart attacks may lead to the victim dying, subsequently dropping the cigarette, which after a period of smouldering can ignite the victim's clothes. [16]
The Council of Clermont was a mixed synod of ecclesiastics and laymen of the Catholic Church, called by Pope Urban II and held from 17 to 27 November 1095 at Clermont, Auvergne, at the time part of the Duchy of Aquitaine.