32. The Catholic Church’s Most Lunatic Trial
Throughout the history of the Catholic Church, plenty of popes has known how to hold a grudge. There is no dearth of pontiffs who plotted and schemed against their predecessors, or even straight-up murdered them. Nor does history have a shortage of popes who were quite vindictive towards the very memory of their predecessors.
However, no Holy Father in the nearly two millennia-long history of the pontificate ever came close to the lunatic levels of vindictiveness exhibited by Pope Stephen VI. He was the only pope so vindictive towards a predecessor that he had his corpse exhumed and put on trial, so he could finally tell him to his (dead) face just what he thought of him.