Why does no one celebrate the woman pope?>John (Joan) Anglicus, born at Mainz, was Pope for two years seven months and four days and died in Rome, after which there was a vacancy in the Papacy of one month. It is claimed that this John was a woman, who as a girl had been led to Athens dressed in the clothes of a man by a certain lover of hers. There she became proficient in a diversity of branches of knowledge, until she had no equal, and, afterward in Rome, she taught the liberal arts and had great masters among her students and audience. A high opinion of her life and learning arose in the city; and she was chosen for Pope. While Pope, however, she became pregnant by her companion. Through ignorance of the exact time when the birth was expected, she was delivered of a child while in procession from St. Peter's to the Lateran, in a lane once named Via Sacra (the sacred way) but now known as the "shunned street" between the Colosseum and St Clement's church. After her death, it is said she was buried in that same place. The Lord Pope always turns aside from the street, and it is believed by many that this is done because of abhorrence of the event. Nor is she placed on the list of the Holy Pontiffs, both because of her female sex and on account of the foulness of the matter.—Martin of Opava, Chronicon Pontificum et ImperatorumApparently her statue was a popular pilgrimage site until Pope Sixtus IV had it thrown into the Tiber. Up to that point, the Popes had to sit on a special chair with a hole in it (which can be seen in the Louvre today) where they would drop their testicles through to confirm they were males and a deacon would fondle them and call out:>"He has testicles!"To which the assembled cardinals would reply:>"Praise be to God!"and then the consecration could continue.Joan, sometimes called Agnes, was also in some bust series, although later popes had these destroyed.Jan Hus also references Pope Agnus during his trial transcripts.
>>18500132>A legend first created 400 years after her supposed rule.Yeah, that's totally true.
>there was totally a woman pope you guys >but all the actual evidence was destroyed!I have 17 dinosaurs in my garden.
>>18500132Kabbalist kike fan fiction.>>18500160Nu-atheists on boomerbook said so, that means it must be true! Don't you know Easter also comes from "Ishtar" anon? Lmao.
>>18500160>>18500174>>18500176You guys are missing the point, which is that many medievals took the legend quite seriously, and the story itself is hilarious, as is the record from about 1500 about the testical groping and group chanting over it. Granted, some historians say the chair is a birthing chair, and represents the role of the Church as mother, and wasn't actually used for testicle inspections.
>>18500256Let me see if I can find the source on the ball inspections. It is funny reading because it is given in complete seriousness.Because the Orthodox were promoting eunuchs, there were also Latin charges that they had female bishops and patriarchs as well in some letters.
