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    Posted: 31-Dec-2005 at 23:12
I recently saw a show about the speculation their was a female pope, right around this time period. Pope Joan I, did anybody else watch that special?
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 I heard it was just a myth, sounds pretty improbable to me, though stranger things have happened like that Pope they exhumed to stand trial

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I have heard of it, but can't say whether it is fact or fiction. I really need to improve my knowledge of the Papacy, always a big weakness for me in my medieval bank of knowledge. Considering the immoral uproar in the Papal pornocracy at the time, a woman's touch might have been just what they needed.
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I like studying the Vatican it is one of my favorite subjects. But on this matter I don't know to much
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This "Popess" was in a question of the previous Total Quiz. 
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Posts: 1231 		  Quote Heraclius Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 31-Dec-2005 at 23:27

 Whens the next Total Quiz going to be anyway?

 I to need to improve my knowledge on the Papacy, the main reason I havent really studied it is so many Popes get on my nerves, especially in concern to Byzantium, bleh!

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Originally posted by Imperator Invictus

This "Popess" was in a question of the previous Total Quiz. 

Correct, some super intelligent guy on the forum, who's drunk now, posted it, I erm forget who.

He got all his knowledge through rigourous, arduous, committed and laboured academic research...... namely watching this movie with a spliff and a few beers.

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It would be interesting to say the least.

I can't stop laughing though. This thread reminds me of Sanela's (Muslim) talk show. She showed a clip of the new Pope in a red hat with white fur trim and said, "Well, capitalism has finally destroyed Christianity. I never thought I'd live to see the Pope riding around St. Peter's Square dressed like Santa Claus, nor did I expect the world to last as long as it has afterwards."
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In my oppinon the secret of the female Pope was solved because Pope Benedictus III and Emperor Lothar I were in the same coin.
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It's a myth.



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Originally posted by Hector Victorious

I recently saw a show about the speculation their was a female pope, right around this time period. Pope Joan I, did anybody else watch that special?

I watched it. It was on Friday around 9 or 10 PM Eastern Time on ABC. I think that she is a myth. It's funny because I also do remember the question on the Total Quiz.

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It's a myth that was bound to appear in such a male dominated organisation as the Catholic Church.

It also has an appendix: Apparently for a while in the Middle Ages, newly elected Popes had to demonstrate their masculinity by showing off their sexual organs to a selected audience, that would then exclaim: "Testiculos habet".



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I heard that a guy would go under the chair and actually feel the area and exclaim "Testiculos habet".

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I've always heard that Pope Joan I was a myth.  But when (within years) was this supposed to have happened? 

 
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