(September 3, 2023 at 10:19 am)Bucky Ball Wrote: It appears to be a fraud.
All the recent dead popes laid in state for a rather lengthy time, for all to see, and as far as I can tell none of them
were "mutilated" at any point in their post-mortem period. They may have been "tapped" ceremonially but I can see no evidence for this as an actual proof of death.
The silver hammer was used to smash the papal ring.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hammer-time/
They did check that new popes had testicles for a while, after Pope Joan manages to get through election.
LOL
It think it would better a better idea to hit a newly elected Pope in the head with a very large hammer three times. If he lives through it, he gets to be Pope.
Boru
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