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Today we look back to January of 897 and a bizarre legal drama unfolding in Rome…

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archaeology history Rome pope Formosus Stephen VI Boniface VI Romanus Theodore II Politics deposed shenanigans Medieval king papal arnulf Agiltrude Carlovingians Lambert Spoleto Italia Italy estate ordain crown blessing anointed

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