In 897, Pope Stephen VI put his predecessor, Pope Formosus, on trial for crimes against the Catholic Church. The accused was exhumed from his grave, and presented before an assembly of clergy in a Basilica in Rome.

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• The Cadaver Synod: When a Pope’s Corpse Was Put on Trial | Atlas Obscura

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