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TIL Pope Formosus’ body was exhumed and put on trial, where a deacon was appointed to answer for Formosus. The corpse was found guilty, stripped of its sacred vestments, deprived of three fingers, clad in the garb of a layman, and quickly buried; it was then re-exhumed and thrown in the Tiber.

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