December 897 A.D. Theodore II Dies—Rome’s 115th; 20-Days in Office; Reverses Laughable & Ridiculous “Cadaver Synod” Re: Formusus with His Disposition (Thrown Into) to the Turgidly-Brown Tiber River; Ted 2 Reinters Formosus in St. Peter’s
For a few good laughs and justifiable contempts, see the backstory on: “18 July 1870 A.D. Vatican 1, “The Cadaver Synod,” & Trial of Exumed Pope Formosus in Papal Vestments by His Successor, Pope Stephen VI.” See: http://reformationanglicanism.blogspot.com/2014/07/18-july-1870-ad-vatican-1-cadaver-synod_18.html.
Now, for Theodore II.
Mann, Horace. "Pope Theodore II." The
Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 14. New York:
Robert Appleton Company, 1912. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14570b.htm. Accessed 20 Aug 2014.
Theodore II
Son of Photius. His pontificate lasted only twenty days; neither the date of his birth nor of his accession to the papacy is known; it is probable that he was pope during December 897. He reinstated in synod the clerics who had been degraded by Stephen (VI) VII, ordered the burning of the acts of resignation which they had been forced to tender, and formally recognized the validity of the orders conferred by Pope Formosus. He caused the body of the last-named pope, which had been thrown into the Tiber and cast ashore by a flood, to be reburied in St. Peter's. By his contemporary Frodoard he is said to have been beloved by the clergy, to have himself loved and promoted peace, and to have been temperate, and chaste, and charitable to the poor.
Sources
FRODOARD, De Christi
triumph. in P.L., CXXXV;
AUXILIUS in DÜMMLER Auxilius
und Vulgarius (Leipzig.
1866); JAFFÉ, Regesta. I (Leipzig, 1888); MANN, Lives of the Popes in the early Middle Ages (London, 1910), 88 sqq.
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