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- Each party was condemning each other, causing an excommunication within the Church. Eventually, the other members of the community decided to put an end to the situation by voting a new pope in Pisa, Italy, named Alexander V (1408).
- The other members of the Church encouraged the two previous pope to resign. But the situation got messier when neither of the two stepped down in their positions. Starting the famous Western Schism or the Scandal of the three Popes.
- When 1417 came, the scandal was finished when the Council of Constance decided to vote Martin V unanimously as the new pope, dismissing the other three in their position. After two years, another scandal arose in the community. But there is only one pope involved.
- His name is Alexander VI Borgia, and he is titled as the worst pope in history. He became a cardinal when his uncle Pope Callixtus III ordained him. But he only got into trouble as he likes to involve himself in politics and accumulate a large amount of wealth.
- In 1419, he became a pope and lived a very scandalous and sophisticated life. His family consists of four children to a Roman noblewoman. His son, Cesare Borgia became a cardinal after he appointed him. His daughter Lucrezia, asked an annulment to him in order to marry another influential politician, in which he granted.
- The pope was kicked out in his position after Fra Girolamo Savonarola, a Dominican preacher, asked for a reformation of the Church. When the preacher’s idea became famous, Alexander VI Borgia was excommunicated. In Florence, Italy was the place where the pope met his final breath, after being hanged and burned in 1498. Saint Philip Neri and some Christians considered him as a martyr despite his corruption to the Church. Folks, this is the end of the famous Scandal of the three Popes.
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