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In January 897, Pope Stephen the 6th ordered that his predecessor, Pope Formosis, stand trial. the charge ambitions to illegally usurp the papal throne.

In Rome at the Basilica of St. John Littaran, Stephen stood up and hurled insults at Formosis, who was sitting

down and according to medieval sources, looked a little pale. This wasn't the first time for Moses was accused of betraying

his fellow churchmen. The medieval Catholic Church was possibly one of the most litigious institutions in the world at that time.

Being a bishop in the church, especially during the tumultuous 9th century, often meant you had to excommunicate your rivals or suffer

being excommunicated by them. The liturgical equivalent of kill or be killed.

These ex-communications took place at Synod's,

councils where high-ranking members of the clergy would meet to discuss religious law with regards to the

accused, who usually happened to be their political opponents who defied said laws.

Formosis had been on the receiving end of the Synod's

plenty of times before, three times to be precise.

At one point he was even excommunicated, albeit temporarily. But the trial of 897 felt different. Certainly the audience at the trial thought so. Was it because Rome had just

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