An article in Time speculated what the Secretariat on Saintliness was discussing about Saint Floradora, interviewing this bishop [St. Fidgeta & Other Parodies, 82].
While made-up, Myers and Bowen both note that English author William Rolfe used the pseudonym Baron Corvo to write a satirical novel named Hadrian the Seventh about an Englishman who gets to be pope despite having been rejected for the priesthood (also see Archer, Nicholas).
Interestingly, a British dramatization of Hadrian the Seventh appeared in 1967 and was successfully produced in London and New York.
