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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]
The Cadaver Synod as portrayed by Jean-Paul Laurens in 1870. Stephen VI, the successor of Boniface VI, influenced by Lambert and Agiltrude, sat in judgment of Formosus in 897, in what is known as the Cadaver Synod. The corpse was disinterred, clad in papal vestments, and seated on a throne to face all the charges from John VIII.
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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Pope Theodore II (Latin: Theodorus II; 840 – December 897) was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States for twenty days in December 897. His short reign occurred during a period of partisan strife in the Catholic Church, which was entangled with a period of violence and disorder in central Italy.
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Cadaver monuments first appeared in the 1380s and remained popular for 200 years. [92] Usually intended as a form of memento mori, they show the human body's transition from life to decomposition, [93] [94] highlighting the contrast between worldly riches and elegance and the degradation of death. [91]
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