This is the story of Pope Benedict IX, one of the youngest popes in history, the first pope to willfully step down as pope, and the pope who was on the papal throne not once, not twice, but three times.

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Some sources:
Benedict IX and Gregory VI by Reginald Lane Poole
Pope Benedict IX In The Catholic Encyclopedia https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/0242...
New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge

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