"Variously known as the sedia stercoraria – which
translates as the 'dung chair'– or rather more understandably,
as the 'pierced chair', this then was the object used to test
the sex of newly installed popes... Any candidate chosen by his
peers to occupy the papal throne was required, before his
election could be verified, to sit on this elaborate seat while
a young cardinal took advantage of the design to touch his
testicles." [Reference]
2 comments:
Thanks for the reference, go Pope Joan!
as in smaller and hairless?
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