It's AI, though, could just be based on people wanting to believe that a Pope exploded, juicing the search engines. Otherwise, if true, yeah, 20th century seems like exactly the century a Pope would explode!
Well, the '58 Pope had an assembly line defect with the fuel pump that could lead to a backwash of gasoline. The pump would strain to compensate, overheat the trapped gas, and boom... you've just blown a Pope.
I would like a documentary about the poor morticians who were standing there when it happened and then had to explain to THE CATHOLIC CHURCH why they now recommended cremation.
I am relieved they clarified this happened after he’d died, as if the “he’s being embalmed” and “he decomposed a whole bunch” might have left that unclear
You have any sources that reference an explosion? All I can find is a botched embalming and then the corpse just decomposing. Which wasn't pleasant, but not an explosion.
Lol. 'explode' (with parentheses) doesn't mean the same as explode (without parentheses). But I can see now, how the AI made that hallucination. It also can't read.
"Holy Father, why did you order all this garlic for what may be your last meal? And why are you washing it down with all this holy water?"
"It'll become clear after I'm gone. Now, have you invited Count Orlok and his retinue to the viewing?"
I am so tickled by the idea of even googling "which pope exploded". I learned something new today and can't stop laughing about it. This made my day, thank you so much for this!
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Gonna vent my spleen to the world if it’s the last thing I do!
(It will be the last thing I do)
"It'll become clear after I'm gone. Now, have you invited Count Orlok and his retinue to the viewing?"
"And what is the deal with Arianism? Can't you guys count to three?"
Which ngl would've been interesting but I'm not sure if the Vatican would consider it "timely"
What batshit medieval mortuary practices were they using?!?
It is worse than we thought.
Also, during public viewing. 😬
https://surgeonshallmuseums.wordpress.com/2021/08/20/decomposition-the-enemy-of-anatomy-and-embalming-and-the-case-of-the-exploding-pope/