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Joan

Mythical Englishwoman, reputed to have become pope in 855, as John VIII, and to have died giving birth to a child during a papal procession. The myth was exposed in 1647 by Blondel in his ‘Eclaircissement de la question/Clarification of the question’.

According to legend, she was the daughter of a missionary and educated at Cologne, Germany. She fell in love with a monk with whom she went to Athens in male attire, but on his death opened a school in Rome and entered the priesthood, eventually being elected pope.



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The next day a young man hailed the watch upon the walls of the castle of Richard de Tany telling him to bear word to Joan de Tany that Roger de Conde, a friend of her guest Lady Mary de Stutevill, was without.
The Outlaw of Torn by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
It was plain to Joan that she had struck one of her brother's perverse moods, and he was going to oppose whatever his mother said.
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The first was Joan Stacey, the sister of the dead woman--evidently she had been upstairs in the temporary temple of Apollo; the second was the priest of Apollo himself, his litany finished, sweeping down the empty stairs in utter magnificence--something in his white robes, beard and parted hair had the look of Dore's Christ leaving the Pretorium; the third was Flambeau, black browed and somewhat bewildered.
The Innocence Of Father Brown by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context
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