Confirmation of this incredible fact was hidden by the Roman Church very reliably, and in the official chronicle of the Vatican about John VIII, who bore the title of Pope from 855 to 857, there is no information.
So was daddy?
Historical facts are a matter of principle. And having carefully researched the realities of the Roman Church, eminent historians cite a number of indisputable evidence. One of the most compelling arguments is the fact that fifteen years after the reign of the first John VIII in the Roman chronicle there is a mention of the second John VIII, whose reign lasted 10 years starting in 872.
This fact can be explained as an attempt to reliably hide the occupation of the throne of the Pope by a woman. It was for the destruction of all traces of a woman's presence in the bosom of the Vatican that an “annoying” confusion occurred in the “numbering” of the Holy John. To hide the traces of the shameful scandal, the Roman Church officially attributed the years of the reign of the extraordinary pope to the years of the reign of Pope Benedict III, who took the throne immediately after John VIII. For this top-secret reason, historians have done tremendous work in the archives in order to restore the approximate biography of a woman who sat on the papal throne under the name of Pope John VIII from scattered sources of the church chronicle.
The path to the throne
The girl's mother, who was baptized under the name Agnes, died in childbirth, and the baby was raised by a missionary father. Wandering around England, he tried by prayer to return the heretics to the true faith. However, faith was often not enough, and then fists were used as the main argument. As a result of one of the fistfights, Agnes's father was severely injured and soon died, leaving his 14-year-old daughter to take care of herself. With a phenomenal memory, Agnes was able to recite the Holy Scriptures by heart and began earning a living by preaching. But in those days, a woman's life was full of dangers, and in order to protect herself, Agnes disguised herself as a man, cutting off her chic braids. So John Langlois was born, who entered the monastery as a novice.
It was in the monastery that she met her first love in the person of a young monk. So that the secret of John Langlois is not revealed, the lovers flee from the walls of the monastery to France, where Agnes participates in debates on theology, and later she studies philosophy in Athens. After the sudden death of his beloved John, he moved to Rome, again incarnating as a man. In Rome, thanks to the established acquaintances, she manages to get the position of a notary. Fulfilling the mission of a modern secretary, Agnes continued to amaze the papal ministers with her knowledge, because then not all rulers could write their names.
The then Pope Leo IV praised the work of his notary and soon promoted John Langlois to the rank of cardinal. The young cardinal so sunk into the soul of the pope that, dying, he pointed to John as his successor.
Pope John VIII
So a woman ascended the papal throne. As the legends say, the anointing of the pope was accompanied in different countries by bad omens - somewhere there was a bloody rain, somewhere a flood or a plague of locusts.
Soon, a young chaplain discovered the secret of the Pope's gender. To avoid blackmail, Agnes acted like a real woman: she seduced the handsome man and turned him into her ally. And everything would be fine if not for the pregnancy of the dad. The spacious folds of the cassock perfectly concealed the belly, and she intended to give birth to Agnes somewhere in the outback. But on November 20, 857, she, like a pope, had to participate in a procession of the cross through Roman streets. Right during the procession, she began to give birth. Until the last minute Agnes "holds her face", giving birth to a dead child right on the street, and dies herself amid thunder and lightning strikes.
The scandalous story of a woman pope gave rise to a strange ritual - starting in 857, for six and a half centuries, compulsory sexual examination of candidates for the title of Pope was introduced.
