In the latter part of the ninth century, Pope Steven VII. had the body of Pope Formosus exhumed; tried for heresy and condemned to be thrown into, the Tiber. The Formosus faction secured the body and buried it again. Then they got Pope Steven into prison, and strangled him there.
When the faction that elected Steven got into power again, under Pope Serigus III., they exhumed Pope Formosus'body again and threw it into the Tiber.
Nineteen centuries of Christianity and papacy
Burton, Ella A.
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