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The book contains the following account of the female Pope: Pope John VIII: John, of English extraction, was born at Mentz and is said to have arrived at popedom by evil art; for disguising herself like a man, whereas she was a woman, she went when young with her paramour, a learned man, to Athens, and made such progress in learning under the ...
Pope Joan giving birth. Woodcut from a German translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris.(British Museum)The premise of the work is the medieval European legend of a woman named Joan who ascended the church hierarchy and allegedly assumed the papal throne disguised as a man (sometimes identified as Pope John VIII) during the late 9th century.
John VIII's letter to Svatopluk I of Moravia. Pope Adrian II consecrated Methodius of Thessalonica as archbishop and supported his mission to the Slavs. Unbeknownst to Rome, Methodius was imprisoned in 870 by the Carolingian King Louis the German and Bavarian bishops, who objected to his use of the Slavonic language in the liturgy and his encroachment on their jurisdiction in Moravia. [2]
Pope John VIII, Pope from 872 to 882; Antipope John VIII, antipope in 844; John VIII bar Abdoun, Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch (944-1033) John VIII of Constantinople, Patriarch of Constantinople (1010-1075) John VIII Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (1392–1448) John VIII, Count of Harcourt, 1398–1424; John VIII, Count of Vendôme, 1426 ...
Ten years later, Amoros is again punching up sets for Rivers onstage, as part of the creative team of the play "Joan," opening Friday at South Coast Repertory and running through Nov. 24.
Joan Rivers in 2010. The late Joan Rivers is known as a pioneering woman in comedy, but she was also a pioneer in AIDS activism. The comedian was one of the first celebrities to lend her fame to ...
Pope Paul III Farnese had four illegitimate children and made his illegitimate son Pier Luigi Farnese the first duke of Parma. This is a list of sexually active popes, Catholic priests who were not celibate before they became pope, and those who were legally married before becoming pope. Some candidates were allegedly sexually active before their election as pope, and others were thought to ...
Rivers targeted everyone from Elizabeth Taylor to Justin Bieber with There wasn't a single star in showbiz who was safe from the quick-witted comic's barbs. Joan Rivers's 10 most insulting ...