"Dismal and disgraceful" Pontificate


	"Dismal and disgraceful" Pontificate

Monkfishy

11-6-2007 2:40 PM

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Monkfishy says:

Enough already, with poor Formosus! Although, if he was thrown in the Tiber the first time, he wouldn't have been available for his second trial.

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11-12-2007 12:14 PM

Efrain Alvarado

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13729a.htm:
unfortunately, most of our knowledge of Sergius is derived from his opponents.

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