Crushed Pope Spatulus III to death in 899 [St. Fidgeta & Other Parodies, 52].
By 1540, had drastically been reduced "by plague, sudden death, and a drowsy euphoria that came drifting up out of the Potine Marshes" for the election of Pope Sporus VI [St. Fidgeta & Other Parodies, 52].
Mentioned in the painting by Sandro di Garagiola, Pope Sporus Being Begged by the Curia Not to Abdicate and Go To Live on Patmos as a Hermit [St. Fidgeta & Other Parodies, 57].
The collective name for the Vatican administration; it translates into English as court.
Myers adds that this group of Cardinals "actually run the Vatican and collectively constitute one of the most intractable bureaucracies ever conceived by the mind of man."
