Formosus
Americannoun
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Once installed, Stephen VI put his enemy — another of his predecessors — Pope Formosus, on trial, which was kind of weird considering Formosus had been dead for months.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 21, 2022
Formosus, who had been engaged in these transactions, who had been excommunicated as a conspirator for the murder of Pope John, was himself elected pope in 891.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green
And we be obliged to set our amorous eclogues to the tune of Formosus Pastor Corydon?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various
Overwhelmed with chagrin, Formosus died on the 4th of April 896.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
He found the Pope, Formosus, in the power of a Lombard prince, whom the former had been compelled against his will, to crown as Emperor.
From A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Taylor, Bayard
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