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The legend of Papisa Juana tells how a woman would have gone through men and managed to become a pontiff.
The legend of Papisa Juana tells how a woman would have become a pontificate when she impersonated a man. (PHOTO FREE PRY: PL/AFP newspaper)
Within the world of the Catholic Church and the Supreme Pontiff, there is A legend that tells how a woman would have occupied Pedro’s throneand the alleged punishment he would have received.
This is the legend of Papisa Juana, who tells how a woman passed as a man and would have managed to be chosen as Pope, and which was even known as Juan VIII.
This legend, which is not confirmed by the Vatican, would have occurred between the ninth and X century, and according to several historians, he would have started in the German city of Mainz, with a woman who Pro man would have passed to escape his family and to be able to receive university education.
The woman would allegedly won a good reputation for her academic skills, so quickly I would have climbed to be a cardinal and finally become a pontiffsupposedly being the successor of León IV.
Legend tells that Papisa Juana would have been discovered when He gave birth in the middle of a street while a procession was carried out.
There are many theories of what happened later: some claim that the woman was stoned by all those present in the procession, others claim that the woman died at the same time she gave birth, and Finally is the theory that the woman managed to escape.
It is said that, as a result of this legend, the alleged rite was born to feel the intimate parts of the Men who are selected to be potatoes, to assess whether it was not a woman.