Pope Joan

Rome, 855 AD. A new pope makes his appearance on the world stage: John VIII. In times of decline and depravity he shall lead papacy to former greatness. Particularly the weak and poor worship the ecclesiastical scholar from Germany. But John carries a dark secret under his cassock: the Holy Father in fact is a woman!

More than 500 chronicles report about Pope Joan who, in men’s clothes, ascended the papal throne.

Did indeed a woman slip through the Vatican’s net more than thousand years ago?
What lies behind the legend of Pope Joan?

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