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Was there any truth to this story?


Or is it just a creative fiction? I never heard of anything like this before and it sounded somewhat far fetched, but some of the ads made it sound like it was based on something, even just a legend. Does anyone know?

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It is considered by modern scholars to be fiction however, the mystery will probably never be fully solved as information, at that time, was not as thorough as it is now.

For more information, please research "Pope Joan".

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It's "officially" based on a myth. Whether there is any truth to it what so ever is... well, myth.

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The book by Donna Woolfolk Cross called Pope Joan was an amazing book and from what I read afterwards online was that the Vatican would have been so incensed by the breach that all records regarding her were, or would have been, destroyed.I don't think we'll ever know if she actually existed.

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Pure anti-Catholic fiction, from Protestant sources.

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