Although some medieval writers referred to the female pope as "John VIII", a genuine Pope John VIII reigned between 872 and 882. In his telling, the female pope is not named, and the events are set in 1099. There have been two films based on the story of Pope Joan: Pope Joan (1972), directed by Michael Anderson, was titled The Devil's Imposter in the US. There she became proficient in a diversity of branches of knowledge, until she had no equal, and, afterward in Rome, she taught the liberal arts and had great masters among her students and audience. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images He expressed the Pope's concern for her and said the Pope believed in her good intentions and had pardoned her. Some versions of the legend suggest that subsequent popes were subjected to an examination whereby, having sat on a so-called sedia stercoraria or "dung chair" containing a hole, a cardinal had to reach up and establish that the new pope had testicles, before announcing "Duos habet et bene pendentes" ("He has two, and they dangle nicely"),[15] or "habet" ("he has them") for short.[16]. The Pope Joan legend is also conflated with the gap in the numbering of the Johns. Raemond's Erreur Populaire went through successive editions, reaching a fifteenth as late as 1691. Pope Francis was happily greeting children and pilgrims in St. Peter's Square on Tuesday when he slapped a woman's hand to free himself. Due to the Dark Ages' lack of records, confusion often reigns in the evaluation of events. Pope Benedict XV (Latin: Benedictus XV; Italian: Benedetto XV), born Giacomo Paolo Giovanni Battista della Chiesa (Italian: [ˈdʒa:komo ˈpa:olo dʒoˈvanni batˈtista della ˈkjɛ:za]; 21 November 1854 – 22 January 1922), was head of the Catholic Church from 1914 until his death in 1922. The story was widely believed for centuries, but most modern scholars regard it as fictional. It has been speculated that they originally were Roman bidets or imperial birthing stools, which because of their age and imperial links were used in ceremonies by Popes intent on highlighting their own imperial claims (as they did also with their Latin title, Pontifex Maximus). 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A Vatican spokesman said a woman jumped barriers and knocked down the pontiff as he was arriving for the mass but the 82-year-old pope quickly got up and was unhurt. This woman recognized something that most of us don't - or that we have forgotten. However, the story is found in only one unreliable manuscript of Anastasius. REUTERS/Giampiero Sposito – Magazine pour la fin des temps. The first attack, in December 2008, was intercepted successfully by members of the Pontifical Swiss Guard. Of course I don’t know, but it’s entirely possible Pope Benedict is just continuing to rely on a trusted advisor, and not intending to make any sweeping statements about the role of the laity in the upper levels of the church. Only one. This "witness" to the female pope is likely to be based upon Martin's account, and not a possible source for it. Pingback: Prophétie réalisée : le Pape Benoît XVI a été exilé…. Pope Joan has been associated with marvelous happenings. In 2009, a woman jumped a barrier and lunged at Pope Benedict XVI, knocking him to the ground. The American Donna Woolfolk Cross's 1996 historical romance, Pope Joan, was recently made into a German musical as well as the movie described below. Francis too tried to stamp out any ambiguity in 2016, saying Benedict was "a pope emeritus and not the second pope," comparing his 10-year-old elder to "a grandfather at home". [20], The legend of Pope Joan was "effectively demolished" by David Blondel, a mid-17th-century Protestant historian, who suggested that Pope Joan's tale may have originated in a satire against Pope John XI, who died in his early 20s. [25][26] The book gives an account of Pope Joan giving birth to a son in plain view of all those around, accompanied by a detailed engraving showing a rather surprised looking baby peeking out from under the Pope's robes. Some of its manuscripts contain a brief mention of a female pope named Johanna (the earliest source to attach to her the female form of the name), but all these manuscripts are later than Martin's work. [7] The legend was generally accepted as true until the 16th century, when a widespread debate among Catholic and Protestant writers called the story into question; various writers noted the implausibly long gap between Joan's supposed lifetime and her first appearance in texts. In France there appeared marvelous locusts, which had six wings and very powerful teeth. Why is that? Pope Benedict XVI Knocked Down By Woman At Christmas Mass … ... God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth. Nor is she placed on the list of the Holy Pontiffs, both because of her female sex and on account of the foulness of the matter. Pope Joan is referenced in the video game Persona 5, as the inspiration for Johanna, one of the titular personas (cognitive beings used by humans to battle demons) belonging to Makoto Niijima. Through ignorance of the exact time when the birth was expected, she was delivered of a child while in procession from St. Peter's to the Lateran, in a lane once named Via Sacra (the sacred way) but now known as the "shunned street" between the Colosseum and St Clement's church. Pope Benedict IX was not exactly beloved. 99: "De Ioannae Anglica Papa;" it begins succinctly "Ioannes esto Vir nomine videbature, sexu tamen fœmina fuit.". In 2009, it was recut to include more of John Briley's original script and released as She... who would be Pope. Speaking to journalists at a synod press briefing Oct. 25, Bishop Evaristo Pascoal Spengler… His pontificate was largely overshadowed by World War I and its political, social, and humanitarian consequences in Europe. This version, which may have been by Martin himself, is the first to attach a name to the figure, indicating that she was known as "John Anglicus" or "John of Mainz." Come to him. But it doesn't do enough to advance women in the church. by Dr. Doris Reisinger, Ph. Other references to the female pope are attributed to earlier writers, though none appears in manuscripts that predate the Chronica. "The Medieval Popes", by Vincent DeMarco, in, The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice, "Chronica delle vite de pontefici et imperatori romani", "The lady was a pope: A bestseller revives the outlandish tale of Joan", "Why the Legend of Medieval Pope Joan Persists", "Dreaming of a female pope | Irene Christ on Pope Joan", "Pope Joan – a prodigy who chose to defy all odds; Teatru Malta's summer production", "Mark your calendars! Susanna Maiolo is a Swiss-Italian woman who twice attempted to attack Pope Benedict XVI. Pope Benedict XVI waves as he arrives to lead the Wednesday general audience in Saint Peter's square, at the Vatican October 24, 2012. From one point of view we are better off than any preceding generation. Pope Benedict (when he was still "Cardinal Ratzinger") wrote an important book on politics and morality. [40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47], woman who reigned as pope during the Middle Ages, according to legend, Ch. … +Jesus i trust in You! The reason for the configuration of the chair is disputed. A Japanese girl asked the pope… [22][23], At the time of the Reformation, various Protestant writers took up the Pope Joan legend in their anti-Catholic writings, and the Catholics responded with their own polemic. Paul VI Audience Hall Wednesday, 14 February 2007 . -- Pope Benedict XVI From Scripture through today, women have always played a unique and critical role in Church history. [6], Jean de Mailly's chronicle, written around 1250, contains the first mention of an unnamed female pope, and it inspired several more accounts over the next several years. This manuscript, in the Vatican Library, bears the relevant passage inserted as a footnote at the bottom of a page. Then there is the curious fact that no legitimate historical source exists that mentions a woman pontiff until the middle of the 13th century, some 400 years later. Giovanni Boccaccio wrote about her in De Mulieribus Claris (1353). In the 1290s, the Dominican Robert of Uzès recounted a vision in which he saw the seat "where, it is said, the pope is proved to be a man". And we use the last step of this first journey to dedicate our … Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today, we have come to the end of our journey among the witnesses of early Christianity mentioned in the New Testament writings. From the mid-13th century onward, the legend was widely disseminated and believed. D. Pope Benedict (when he was still "Cardinal Ratzinger") wrote an important book on politics and morality. Howard Pyle's The Merry Adventures of Robbin Hood contains a reference. Philip Jenkins in The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice suggests that the periodic revival of what he calls this "anti-papal legend" has more to do with feminist and anti-Catholic wishful thinking than historical accuracy. Even in the 19th century, authors such as Ewaldus Kist and Karl Hase discussed the story as a real occurrence. It also changes the date from the 11th to the 9th century, indicating that Joan reigned between Leo IV and Benedict III in the 850s. VATICAN CITY: A woman jumped the barriers in St. Peter’s Basilica and knocked down Pope Benedict XVI at the start of Christmas Eve Mass, but the 82-year-old pontiff got up unhurt and proceeded as planned with Thursday’s service. Pope Benedict XVI was walking down the aisle to begin the traditional Christmas Eve service when the woman made her move. Rugby: Women's World Cup to be expanded to 16 teams from 2025. The pope sat briefly on two "pierced chairs" at the Lateran: "... the vulgar tell the insane fable that he is touched to verify that he is indeed a man", a sign that this corollary of the Pope Joan legend was still current in the Roman street.[35]. St. Peter Damian, for one, called him a "demon from hell in the disguise of a priest." God Men Peace. One version of the Chronicon gives an alternative fate for the female pope. 63–70. An English writer, Alexander Cooke, wrote a book entitled Pope Joane: A Dialogue between a Protestant and a Papist, which purported to prove the existence of Pope Joan by reference to Catholic traditions. Today, at 92, he speaks out more openly and sometimes it creates some controversy. HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI. I know that many of us wondered what really happened to prompt Pope Benedict XVI to step down; and then to have the Jesuit/Marxist Francis take his place. He vehemently asserted his own authority as patriarch over that of the pope in Rome, and would have made the most of any scandal of that time regarding the papacy; but he never mentions the story once in any of his voluminous writings. Bartolomeo Platina, the scholar who was prefect of the Vatican Library, wrote his Vitæ Pontificum Platinæ historici liber de vita Christi ac omnium pontificum qui hactenus ducenti fuere et XX in 1479 at the behest of his patron, Pope Sixtus IV. This and other toilet-like chairs were used in the consecration of Pope Pascal II in 1099. The Pope's Right-Hand Woman Pope Benedict XVI's longtime assistant--a German laywoman--may just become the Karen Hughes of the Vatican. ‘Pope Joan’ Chapter VI, pp. The golden bodies were rejected by the waves of the sea and corrupted the air, so that a great many people died. The origin of the practice is uncertain, but it is quite likely that it was maintained because of widespread belief in the Joan legend, and it was thought genuinely to date back to that period. The woman accompanying BXVI here is not a "nurse". The 1910 Catholic Encyclopedia elaborated on the historical timeline problem: Between Leo IV and Benedict III, where Martinus Polonus places her, she cannot be inserted, because Leo IV died 17 July 855, and immediately after his death Benedict III was elected by the clergy and people of Rome; but, owing to the setting up of an Antipope, in the person of the deposed Cardinal Anastasius, he was not consecrated until 29 September. Rev 17:4,5 "the woman was ... adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls,..."BABYLON THE GREAT Dear Pilgrims, “Their descendants shall be renowned among the nations […], … Peter Stanford, a British writer and former editor of The Catholic Herald, concluded in The Legend of Pope Joan: In Search of the Truth (2000) "Weighing all th[e] evidence, I am convinced that Pope Joan was an historical figure, though perhaps not all the details about her that have been passed on down the centuries are true". [31] Stanford's work has been criticised as "credulous" by one mainstream historian[who?]. The book contains the following account of the female Pope: Pope John VIII: John, of English extraction, was born at Mentz (Mainz) 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 professors there that, coming to Rome, she met with few that could equal, much less go beyond her, even in the knowledge of the scriptures; and by her learned and ingenious readings and disputations, she acquired so great respect and authority that upon the death of Pope Leo IV (as Martin says) by common consent she was chosen pope in his room. Fiat! Immediately, by Roman justice she was bound by the feet to a horse's tail and dragged and stoned by the people for half a league, and, where she died, there she was buried, and at the place is written: "Petre, Pater Patrum, Papisse Prodito Partum" [Oh Peter, Father of Fathers, Betray the childbearing of the woman Pope]. February 7, 2018, 17:00 IST explore: World (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) The homily celebrated in the large Terreiro do Paco square in Lisbon was attended by 200 thousand people. The earliest mention of a female pope appears in the Dominican Jean de Mailly's chronicle of Metz, Chronica Universalis Mettensis, written in the early 13th century. At the same time, the four-day fast called the "fast of the female Pope" was first established.[14]. The 93-year-old pope emeritus’ new comments, which tied same-sex marriage to the Antichrist, surfaced in a new biography about him, “Benedict XVI — A Life,” that features an interview with Benedict by journalist Peter Seewald of Germany. Pope Benedict XVI greets a woman during a meeting with youth at the Cathedral in Sulmona, Italy on July 4, 2010. The famous bust of her, inscribed Johannes VIII, Femina ex Anglia, which had been carved for the series of papal figures in the Duomo di Siena about 1400 and was noted by travelers, was either destroyed or recarved and relabeled, replaced by a male figure, that of Pope Zachary. He was helped to his feet, unhurt. Stay faithful and all eyes on our Holy Father! The same is true of Marianus Scotus's Chronicle of the Popes, a text written in the 11th century. Most modern scholars dismiss Pope Joan as a medieval legend. 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Although some medieval writers referred to the female pope as "John VIII", a genuine Pope John VIII reigned between 872 and 882. In his telling, the female pope is not named, and the events are set in 1099. There have been two films based on the story of Pope Joan: Pope Joan (1972), directed by Michael Anderson, was titled The Devil's Imposter in the US. There she became proficient in a diversity of branches of knowledge, until she had no equal, and, afterward in Rome, she taught the liberal arts and had great masters among her students and audience. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images He expressed the Pope's concern for her and said the Pope believed in her good intentions and had pardoned her. Some versions of the legend suggest that subsequent popes were subjected to an examination whereby, having sat on a so-called sedia stercoraria or "dung chair" containing a hole, a cardinal had to reach up and establish that the new pope had testicles, before announcing "Duos habet et bene pendentes" ("He has two, and they dangle nicely"),[15] or "habet" ("he has them") for short.[16]. The Pope Joan legend is also conflated with the gap in the numbering of the Johns. Raemond's Erreur Populaire went through successive editions, reaching a fifteenth as late as 1691. Pope Francis was happily greeting children and pilgrims in St. Peter's Square on Tuesday when he slapped a woman's hand to free himself. Due to the Dark Ages' lack of records, confusion often reigns in the evaluation of events. Pope Benedict XV (Latin: Benedictus XV; Italian: Benedetto XV), born Giacomo Paolo Giovanni Battista della Chiesa (Italian: [ˈdʒa:komo ˈpa:olo dʒoˈvanni batˈtista della ˈkjɛ:za]; 21 November 1854 – 22 January 1922), was head of the Catholic Church from 1914 until his death in 1922. The story was widely believed for centuries, but most modern scholars regard it as fictional. It has been speculated that they originally were Roman bidets or imperial birthing stools, which because of their age and imperial links were used in ceremonies by Popes intent on highlighting their own imperial claims (as they did also with their Latin title, Pontifex Maximus). 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A Vatican spokesman said a woman jumped barriers and knocked down the pontiff as he was arriving for the mass but the 82-year-old pope quickly got up and was unhurt. This woman recognized something that most of us don't - or that we have forgotten. However, the story is found in only one unreliable manuscript of Anastasius. REUTERS/Giampiero Sposito – Magazine pour la fin des temps. The first attack, in December 2008, was intercepted successfully by members of the Pontifical Swiss Guard. Of course I don’t know, but it’s entirely possible Pope Benedict is just continuing to rely on a trusted advisor, and not intending to make any sweeping statements about the role of the laity in the upper levels of the church. Only one. This "witness" to the female pope is likely to be based upon Martin's account, and not a possible source for it. Pingback: Prophétie réalisée : le Pape Benoît XVI a été exilé…. Pope Joan has been associated with marvelous happenings. In 2009, a woman jumped a barrier and lunged at Pope Benedict XVI, knocking him to the ground. The American Donna Woolfolk Cross's 1996 historical romance, Pope Joan, was recently made into a German musical as well as the movie described below. Francis too tried to stamp out any ambiguity in 2016, saying Benedict was "a pope emeritus and not the second pope," comparing his 10-year-old elder to "a grandfather at home". [20], The legend of Pope Joan was "effectively demolished" by David Blondel, a mid-17th-century Protestant historian, who suggested that Pope Joan's tale may have originated in a satire against Pope John XI, who died in his early 20s. [25][26] The book gives an account of Pope Joan giving birth to a son in plain view of all those around, accompanied by a detailed engraving showing a rather surprised looking baby peeking out from under the Pope's robes. Some of its manuscripts contain a brief mention of a female pope named Johanna (the earliest source to attach to her the female form of the name), but all these manuscripts are later than Martin's work. [7] The legend was generally accepted as true until the 16th century, when a widespread debate among Catholic and Protestant writers called the story into question; various writers noted the implausibly long gap between Joan's supposed lifetime and her first appearance in texts. In France there appeared marvelous locusts, which had six wings and very powerful teeth. Why is that? Pope Benedict XVI Knocked Down By Woman At Christmas Mass … ... God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth. Nor is she placed on the list of the Holy Pontiffs, both because of her female sex and on account of the foulness of the matter. Pope Joan is referenced in the video game Persona 5, as the inspiration for Johanna, one of the titular personas (cognitive beings used by humans to battle demons) belonging to Makoto Niijima. Through ignorance of the exact time when the birth was expected, she was delivered of a child while in procession from St. Peter's to the Lateran, in a lane once named Via Sacra (the sacred way) but now known as the "shunned street" between the Colosseum and St Clement's church. Pope Benedict IX was not exactly beloved. 99: "De Ioannae Anglica Papa;" it begins succinctly "Ioannes esto Vir nomine videbature, sexu tamen fœmina fuit.". In 2009, it was recut to include more of John Briley's original script and released as She... who would be Pope. Speaking to journalists at a synod press briefing Oct. 25, Bishop Evaristo Pascoal Spengler… His pontificate was largely overshadowed by World War I and its political, social, and humanitarian consequences in Europe. This version, which may have been by Martin himself, is the first to attach a name to the figure, indicating that she was known as "John Anglicus" or "John of Mainz." Come to him. But it doesn't do enough to advance women in the church. by Dr. Doris Reisinger, Ph. Other references to the female pope are attributed to earlier writers, though none appears in manuscripts that predate the Chronica. "The Medieval Popes", by Vincent DeMarco, in, The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice, "Chronica delle vite de pontefici et imperatori romani", "The lady was a pope: A bestseller revives the outlandish tale of Joan", "Why the Legend of Medieval Pope Joan Persists", "Dreaming of a female pope | Irene Christ on Pope Joan", "Pope Joan – a prodigy who chose to defy all odds; Teatru Malta's summer production", "Mark your calendars! Susanna Maiolo is a Swiss-Italian woman who twice attempted to attack Pope Benedict XVI. Pope Benedict XVI waves as he arrives to lead the Wednesday general audience in Saint Peter's square, at the Vatican October 24, 2012. From one point of view we are better off than any preceding generation. Pope Benedict (when he was still "Cardinal Ratzinger") wrote an important book on politics and morality. [40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47], woman who reigned as pope during the Middle Ages, according to legend, Ch. … +Jesus i trust in You! The reason for the configuration of the chair is disputed. A Japanese girl asked the pope… [22][23], At the time of the Reformation, various Protestant writers took up the Pope Joan legend in their anti-Catholic writings, and the Catholics responded with their own polemic. Paul VI Audience Hall Wednesday, 14 February 2007 . -- Pope Benedict XVI From Scripture through today, women have always played a unique and critical role in Church history. [6], Jean de Mailly's chronicle, written around 1250, contains the first mention of an unnamed female pope, and it inspired several more accounts over the next several years. This manuscript, in the Vatican Library, bears the relevant passage inserted as a footnote at the bottom of a page. Then there is the curious fact that no legitimate historical source exists that mentions a woman pontiff until the middle of the 13th century, some 400 years later. Giovanni Boccaccio wrote about her in De Mulieribus Claris (1353). In the 1290s, the Dominican Robert of Uzès recounted a vision in which he saw the seat "where, it is said, the pope is proved to be a man". And we use the last step of this first journey to dedicate our … Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today, we have come to the end of our journey among the witnesses of early Christianity mentioned in the New Testament writings. From the mid-13th century onward, the legend was widely disseminated and believed. D. Pope Benedict (when he was still "Cardinal Ratzinger") wrote an important book on politics and morality. Howard Pyle's The Merry Adventures of Robbin Hood contains a reference. Philip Jenkins in The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice suggests that the periodic revival of what he calls this "anti-papal legend" has more to do with feminist and anti-Catholic wishful thinking than historical accuracy. Even in the 19th century, authors such as Ewaldus Kist and Karl Hase discussed the story as a real occurrence. It also changes the date from the 11th to the 9th century, indicating that Joan reigned between Leo IV and Benedict III in the 850s. VATICAN CITY: A woman jumped the barriers in St. Peter’s Basilica and knocked down Pope Benedict XVI at the start of Christmas Eve Mass, but the 82-year-old pontiff got up unhurt and proceeded as planned with Thursday’s service. Pope Benedict XVI was walking down the aisle to begin the traditional Christmas Eve service when the woman made her move. Rugby: Women's World Cup to be expanded to 16 teams from 2025. The pope sat briefly on two "pierced chairs" at the Lateran: "... the vulgar tell the insane fable that he is touched to verify that he is indeed a man", a sign that this corollary of the Pope Joan legend was still current in the Roman street.[35]. St. Peter Damian, for one, called him a "demon from hell in the disguise of a priest." God Men Peace. One version of the Chronicon gives an alternative fate for the female pope. 63–70. An English writer, Alexander Cooke, wrote a book entitled Pope Joane: A Dialogue between a Protestant and a Papist, which purported to prove the existence of Pope Joan by reference to Catholic traditions. Today, at 92, he speaks out more openly and sometimes it creates some controversy. HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI. I know that many of us wondered what really happened to prompt Pope Benedict XVI to step down; and then to have the Jesuit/Marxist Francis take his place. He vehemently asserted his own authority as patriarch over that of the pope in Rome, and would have made the most of any scandal of that time regarding the papacy; but he never mentions the story once in any of his voluminous writings. Bartolomeo Platina, the scholar who was prefect of the Vatican Library, wrote his Vitæ Pontificum Platinæ historici liber de vita Christi ac omnium pontificum qui hactenus ducenti fuere et XX in 1479 at the behest of his patron, Pope Sixtus IV. This and other toilet-like chairs were used in the consecration of Pope Pascal II in 1099. The Pope's Right-Hand Woman Pope Benedict XVI's longtime assistant--a German laywoman--may just become the Karen Hughes of the Vatican. ‘Pope Joan’ Chapter VI, pp. The golden bodies were rejected by the waves of the sea and corrupted the air, so that a great many people died. The origin of the practice is uncertain, but it is quite likely that it was maintained because of widespread belief in the Joan legend, and it was thought genuinely to date back to that period. The woman accompanying BXVI here is not a "nurse". The 1910 Catholic Encyclopedia elaborated on the historical timeline problem: Between Leo IV and Benedict III, where Martinus Polonus places her, she cannot be inserted, because Leo IV died 17 July 855, and immediately after his death Benedict III was elected by the clergy and people of Rome; but, owing to the setting up of an Antipope, in the person of the deposed Cardinal Anastasius, he was not consecrated until 29 September. Rev 17:4,5 "the woman was ... adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls,..."BABYLON THE GREAT Dear Pilgrims, “Their descendants shall be renowned among the nations […], … Peter Stanford, a British writer and former editor of The Catholic Herald, concluded in The Legend of Pope Joan: In Search of the Truth (2000) "Weighing all th[e] evidence, I am convinced that Pope Joan was an historical figure, though perhaps not all the details about her that have been passed on down the centuries are true". [31] Stanford's work has been criticised as "credulous" by one mainstream historian[who?]. The book contains the following account of the female Pope: Pope John VIII: John, of English extraction, was born at Mentz (Mainz) 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 professors there that, coming to Rome, she met with few that could equal, much less go beyond her, even in the knowledge of the scriptures; and by her learned and ingenious readings and disputations, she acquired so great respect and authority that upon the death of Pope Leo IV (as Martin says) by common consent she was chosen pope in his room. Fiat! Immediately, by Roman justice she was bound by the feet to a horse's tail and dragged and stoned by the people for half a league, and, where she died, there she was buried, and at the place is written: "Petre, Pater Patrum, Papisse Prodito Partum" [Oh Peter, Father of Fathers, Betray the childbearing of the woman Pope]. February 7, 2018, 17:00 IST explore: World (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) The homily celebrated in the large Terreiro do Paco square in Lisbon was attended by 200 thousand people. The earliest mention of a female pope appears in the Dominican Jean de Mailly's chronicle of Metz, Chronica Universalis Mettensis, written in the early 13th century. At the same time, the four-day fast called the "fast of the female Pope" was first established.[14]. The 93-year-old pope emeritus’ new comments, which tied same-sex marriage to the Antichrist, surfaced in a new biography about him, “Benedict XVI — A Life,” that features an interview with Benedict by journalist Peter Seewald of Germany. Pope Benedict XVI greets a woman during a meeting with youth at the Cathedral in Sulmona, Italy on July 4, 2010. The famous bust of her, inscribed Johannes VIII, Femina ex Anglia, which had been carved for the series of papal figures in the Duomo di Siena about 1400 and was noted by travelers, was either destroyed or recarved and relabeled, replaced by a male figure, that of Pope Zachary. He was helped to his feet, unhurt. Stay faithful and all eyes on our Holy Father! The same is true of Marianus Scotus's Chronicle of the Popes, a text written in the 11th century. Most modern scholars dismiss Pope Joan as a medieval legend. 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