Pope Formosus (c. 816 – 896) was Pope of the Catholic Church from 891 to 896. His brief reign as Pope was troubled, and his remains were exhumed and put on trial in the notorious Cadaver Synod.
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“Nature and natures laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!”
—Alexander Pope (16881744)