Historical Facts On Record Concerning Popes.
AD 296-304, Bishop Marcellinus was discover sacrificing to heathen gods, then deposed by a synod of bishops, he was replaced by Marcellus I.
AD 731, Gregory II secretly issued a prohibition, not to pay to the Emperor Leo his customary and due tax.
AD 898-900, John IX. Because of the glory, pomp and wealth associated with being pope the risk of treachery was equally as great. The power struggle to remain alive in this much coveted position brought about corruption, simony and murder.
The king of France complained of the excess tax levied by the papacy upon his nation, some twenty-eight tones of gold annually, this was confirmed in part at the death of John XII May 964, it was discovered and made public the pope had $7,000,000 in his private treasury.
AD 931-35, Pope John XI, Count of Tusculum was the son of pope Sergius III by the prostitute Marozia.
AD 974, Boniface VII, under covetous enemy pressure fraudulently left Rome for Constantinople, with the gold, the precious jewels and the treasures of the Vatican.
AD 1044, Pope Benedict IX, stricken with fear, sold the papal chair to Gregory VI in AD 1046, for fifteen hundred pounds of silver.
AD 1191, Clement VIII, and several other popes are guilty of the same type of offenses.
AD 1241, Gregory IX, sold his absolution to the emperor for a hundred thousand ounces of gold, then caused the emperors envoys to be strangled contrary to all justice when he was informed, that Jerusalem was retaken.
AD 1261, Alexander VI, bought his election to the papacy.
AD 1268, Clement IV, openly beheaded Conrad, the son of the king of Sicily, without valid reasons, or legal proceedings.
AD 1362, Innocent IV, through a priest, administered poison to the emperor in a communion host, this was done to remove him from power.
AD 1513, Julius II, had more than two hundred thousand Christians put to death, within the space of seven years.
AD 1549, Pope Paul III, poisoned his mother and niece, so he could inherit the Farnesi wealth.
Judgment And Accidents That Overtook Popes
AD 769, Constantine II, having led a licentious life, was deprived of both his eyes, of his papal power, and then put in a convent by a council.
AD 928, John X AD, was smother to death with a cloth by his rival for the papacy.
AD 931-35, John XI AD, chased and apprehended by the soldiers of Guido, was smothered by holding a pillow over his mouth. He was the first pope to be appointed by a woman (Theodora) and also destroyed by a woman (Marozia her daughter)
AD -795, Benedict VI, was shut up in the Castle Angelo, by a Roman citizen named Cynthius, and strangled there for his adultery.
AD 963-984, John XIV, was poisoned in the Castel Sant Angelo, then was skinned by ruffians then dragged through the streets of Rome to appease to citizen of this man's treachery.
AD 984-985, Boniface VII, died a mysterious sudden death, was dragged through the streets with a rope tied to his feel for his adulteries, then buried in a common grave.
AD -1045, Benedict IX, was killed by a poisoned fig, this was done by an abbess, a devout spiritual daughter that could no longer endure his wicked life, he had gained access to the papal chair by simony.
AD 1045-1046, Gregory VI, bought the papal chair, was later deposed by the council of Sutri AD 1046 then put to death.
AD 1169, Adrian IV, was choked to death by a fly, which flew into his mouth, while he was in the process of drinking.
AD 1144-1145, Lucius II stormed the city with his army was met with a hail of stones from the enemy and died of the wounds.
AD 1243-1254, Innocent IV, died a mysterious death.
AD 1277-1280, Nicholas III, died of Apoplexy, called the stroke of God.
AD 1295-1303, Boniface VIII, the last of the emperor popes had been put in the papal prison at Agnani by one of King Philip's army generals and after three days was release upon his confession to obedience to Philip, but he died a month later a dejected man.
AD 1464-1471, Paul II, after a wild drinking party, died suddenly, a stroke.
AD -1334, John XXII, was crushed by the falling in of the vault of a pavilion.
AD 1513-1521, Leo X AD, after one of his many banquets of wine and wild women, he died with the golden cup in his hands.
AD 1524-1534, Clement VIII, after having conspired with Francis, the king of France, against Emperor Charles the V, he was later apprehended by the captain of the Emperor's army, and admonished of his treachery, as he did not repent, he was later put to death by suffocation.
Whose facts are these and where are they on record?
This post should have the references and a bibliography, other wise all this information is hearsay.
