What did the Church do to Pope Formosus?

Answer 1

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Pope Stephen VI, the successor to the late Pope Formosus, set up a solemn trial of his corpse, which was dragged from the tomb where had been for eight months and dressed again in its sacerdotal robes, to be brought into the council chamber and propped up in the throne. In a parody of legal form, the corpse was provided with a counsel, who wisely kept silent while Pope Stephen raved and screamed insults at it.

The corpse was stripped and the three fingers of benediction were hacked off the right hand. It was then dragged through the palace and hurled to the yelling mob in the streets, who in turn dragged it to the Tiber and threw it in. Later that year, Stephen was seized and strangled by the Romans because of the mock trial.