A Pope’s Best Friend: Hanno the Elephant
Bry, Pontifacts
When you’re the pope, you can have any pet in the world – and many popes have done just that, hosting a variety of surprising animals at the Papal menagerie. But was ever a man so attached to his companion as Pope Leo X and his white elephant Hanno? Find out in this presentation!
Pontifacts
Pontifacts is a papal history podcast ranking all of the Popes from Peter to Leo XIV. In each episode, the biography of a single pope is explored and contextualized, and then they are ranked in a series of very serious categories to determine who was the popiest pope who ever poped.