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The Cadaver Synod (also called the Cadaver Trial; Latin: Synodus Horrenda) is the name commonly given to the ecclesiastical trial of Pope Formosus, who had been dead for about seven months, in the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome during January 897. [1]
In 1599 they mummified one of their number, the recently-deceased brother Silvestro of Gubbio, and placed him in the catacombs. [citation needed] Bodies were dehydrated on racks of ceramic pipes in the catacombs and sometimes later washed with vinegar. Some bodies were embalmed and others were enclosed in sealed glass cabinets.
The mummies of Venzone Mummy found in the Roman cemetery chapel nearby cathedral Sant'Andrea Apostolo in Venzone The mummies after the 1976 earthquake. The mummies of Venzone are a number of mummies found in Venzone, Italy in the 1600s. They were mummified by natural processes, and, while such mummies exist elsewhere, the cause of the Venzone ...
The sun cult held religious power and used mummification in their practice.
The actual punishment meted out to men found guilty of paederasty (homosexual intercourse with boys) might vary between different status groups. In 1409 and 1532 in Augsburg , two men were burned alive for their offences, but a rather different procedure was meted out to four clerics in the 1409 case, guilty of the same offence.
A young girl died after the religious sect her family were part of denied her vital insulin shots choosing to let God decide whether she lived or died. Elizabeth Struhs, 8, passed away after ...
In late fall 2023, the city found out Dad's Place had allowed people to live at the church, violating a zoning code that allows the building to be used for church activities but not for ...
Mummy of Anna Catharina Bischoff Where the coffin was found. Anna Catharina Bischoff (23 March 1719 – 30 August 1787), also known as the "Lady (or mummy) of the Barfüsser Church" was the wife of the pastor Lucas Gernler. She gained popularity in 1975, when her mummified corpse was found in a shaft at the Barfüsser Church in Basel in ...