🧵 View Thread
🧵 Thread (8 tweets)
ACTUAL POPE NAMES: Adalbert Adeodatus Agapetus Anacletus Boniface Boniface II Boniface III Boniface IV Boniface V Boniface VI Boniface VII Boniface VIII Boniface IX Callixtus Eutychian Eusebius Formosus Gelasius Hormisdas Honorius John Marcellus Marinus Sextus Telesphorus
boniface 1 (r. 418–422) reigned 4 years and was friends with augustine of hippo boniface 2 (530–532) came almost 100 years later, lasted 2 years, wiki has no pic of him boniface 3 (607) didn't even last a year, died in 9 months https://t.co/Rq84YuvVX9
boniface 4 (608–615) directly succeeded boniface 3, made it 7 years. he transformed some pagan temple in rome to a christian church boniface 5 (619–625) was described as "the mildest of men" boniface 6 (896) lasted 16 days before allegedly dying of gout https://t.co/pWc9KY79GQ
Boniface 7 is considered an ANTIPOPE he claimed the Holy See twice, fled to Constantinople with a vast treasure in 974, returned in 984 and "removed John XIV from office", supposedly put Benedict VI to death, then died under "suspicious circumstances" bruh https://t.co/usxJMtDtQ1
the people of Rome called him "Malefatius" and "horrendum monstrum", dragged his body through the streets and left him naked bad bad naughty boniface 7 https://t.co/Sow8GbUyIp
Boniface 8 (1294–1303) quarrelled with Dante, who put him in the Eighth Circle of Hell said to have been short tempered, once kicked an envoy in the face he died of a violent fever his body was accidentally exhumed in 1606, oops. then they buried him again https://t.co/FhBGM8CTvI
Boniface 9 (1389–1404) his wiki article does not seem unbiased, lol. idk. i'm tired. anyway that's all the bonifaces. we have not had another boniface in 600+ years. there's a dormant twitter account tho. https://t.co/k7toPjyXL6 https://t.co/jXkrDGwuPb
