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The Pope alleged to be a woman!

The Pope alleged to be a woman!

A medieval story that the church once had a female Pontiff

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Tony McMahon
Feb 05, 2022
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Greetings to my Gold Level and Silver Level Templar Knights. An extraordinary story once widely believed in the Middle Ages - that a woman had been elected Pope. Her name was Joan and her rapid rise through the clergy was on account of her massive talent. But nobody seemed to notice, she wasn’t a man. Until she got the top job in the Catholic church - w…

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