Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking. Login or Take a Tour!
user-inactivated · 3080 days ago · link · · parent · post: Hubski, shoot me with random facts that you think will blow my mind
Legend has it that there was a female pope during the Middle Ages. Whether this is true, there exist a related legend: Here's Gyles Bradreth telling the story.As a consequence, certain traditions stated that popes throughout the medieval period were required to undergo a procedure wherein they sat on a special chair with a hole in the seat. A cardinal would have the task of putting his hand up the hole to check whether the pope had testicles, or doing a visual examination.