Pope Raped Pilgrims in St. Peter’s Basilica
From Bloomberg, 2013-03-08 12:01:00 AM
When Pope John XII was elected in 955, he didn’t give up his secular interests.
He drank, invoked pagan gods when gambling and loved the ladies.
Pope Raped Pilgrims in St. Peter’s Basilica
When Pope John XII was elected in 955, he didn’t give up his secular interests. He drank, invoked pagan gods when gambling and loved the ladies.
John had sex with his father’s concubine, his own niece and many other women, turning the Lateran Palace into a “brothel and resort for harlots.” He even raped women pilgrims in St. Peter’s Basilica. Otto I convened a synod to have John removed from the papacy and replaced with Leo, but when the emperor left Rome, John returned and deposed Leo as a usurper. He took revenge on those who had betrayed him, cutting off the right hand of one man, and the tongue, two fingers and nose of another. John fled when Otto came back to Rome, and died when he was caught in bed by a cuckolded husband and severely beaten.
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