"Babylon the Great Has Fallen!" - Continue with 'The Wine of Her Fornication"'

Sergius III (904-11): "His two immediate predecessors. . . .were strangled in prison. . . In Rome he was supported by the Theophylactus family, by one of whose daughters, Marozia, his supposed to have had a son (later Pope John XI ." - New Catholic Encyclopedia.

Stephen VII (928-31): "In the last years of his pontificate, Pope John X  . . . had incurred the wrath of Marozia, the Donna Senatrix of Rome, and had been imprisoned and assassinated. Marozia then conferred the papacy of Pope Leo VI, who died after 6 1/2 months in office.  Stephen VII succeeded him, probably through the influence of Marozia. . . . During his 2 years as Pope, he was powerless under the domination of Marozia." - New Catholic Encyclopedia.  

John XI (931-35): "Upon the deathof Stephen VII . . . Marozia. of the House of Theophylactus, obtained  the papacy for her son John,  a youth in his 20's. . . As Pope John was dominated by his mother." -New Catholic Encyclopedia.

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