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Key Facts |
| Other names |
Baldassare Cossa |
| Born |
1370 |
| Location |
Phlegrean Islands, off coast of Naples Italy |
| Bloodline |
Cossa |
| Married |
No. Several Mistresses |
| Children |
Yes- all illegitimate |
| Position |
Pope (1410-1415) |
| Died |
November 1419 |
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Background |
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He was one of the seven cardinals who, in May of 1408, deserted Pope Gregory XII, and, with those belonging to the obedience of Antipope Benedict XIII, convened the Council of Pisa, of which Cossa became the leader. They elected Pope Alexander V in 1409. |
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On the night of the 3rd May 1410, Pope Alexander V died suddenly of poisoning after having dinner along with Cardinal Baldassare Cossa. |
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The Italian cardinals elected the Pisan Baldassare Cossa (c. 1370-1419) to replace him. He called himself Pope John XXIII (1410-1415) |
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The vices of Cardinal Cossa, who had bribed electors, were well known to the cardinals and all of Italy, and nothing could show more plainly than this election the depth to which the papacy had sunk. Whether he was the son of an Italian pirate, as Dietrich says, we need not stop to consider. For 15 years he had been the head of the popes' corrupt financial system and had led papal troops and mercenaries with all the ferocity and looseness of commanders of that age. Dietrich adds that, as papal legate at Bologna, Cossa had exacted a personal commission from gamblers and prostitutes. On these matters, it is enough to say that the cardinals who elected him were, like all Europeans, aware of his reputation, and we remain content with the official ecclesiastical description of his character. |
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To end the schism and mutliple Popes, Emperor Sigismund agreed to convoke and preside at a Church General Council at Constance in 1414. It was an uncanny four-year event that defied understanding, and "the incontinence practised by the churchmen demoralised the city in which it was convened" (Samuel Edgar's The Variations of Popery, London, 1838, 2nd ed., p. 533). The priests employed 1,500 prostitutes, whom they called "vagrant strumpets" (ibid.), who refreshed them of an evening after their days of arguing in the Council. The sacerdotal fornicators, it seemed, were very liberal with their favours to the professional ladies. One courtesan, it is said, gained 800 florins, an immense sum in those days. |
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After hearing witnesses, the Council drew up a long indictment against John XXIII which ran to 54 Articles, and may be read in any collection of Church Council records available. He was later charged with rape, adultery, incest, sodomy and the murder of Pope Alexander V. After a brief trial he was found guilty, deposed, imprisoned and strangled within two years. The Romans pelted mud and stones at his coffin when it was brought to Rome. |
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Since this time, an alternative story is pushed by Catholic historians, counter to the unmistakable historic facts claiming Pope Martin V pardoned him and banished him into obscurity as bishop of Tusculum. There is no evidence John XXIII was even still alive at the date Martin became Pope. |
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Most Evil Crimes |
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List of most evil crimes |
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Crime |
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Of repeated incest: (1410 – 1415) That Pope John XXIII did follow the tradition of Popes for over four hundred years and did commit repeated incest upon all his children, male and female and did father several illegitimate children by them. |
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Of murder: (1410): That Pope John XXIII did murder deliberately Pope Alexander V to take the Papal Throne. |
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Of open depravity associated with cannibalism, sex and murder: (1410 – 1415) That Pope John XXIII did open key cathedrals and churches to regular acts of sexual orgies, ritualistic murder of children and cannibalism in the celebration of High Mass of Satanism of Christianity. |
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Of regular and institutional sodomy and murder of children: (1410 – 1415) That Pope John XXIII did continue the tradition of Popes and senior clergy for over one thousand years and did commit regular sodomy of children, especially young boys. Furthermore, that Pope John XXIII did undertake such acts in churches often including the ritualized murder of his child victims after such evil sex acts. |
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Of heresy: (1414) That at the Council of Constance John XXIII was accused of 70 crimes at and was deposed for adultery, incest, atheism and murdering predecessor Alexander V. |
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