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by karel-3d 43 days ago
eh not really, we NOW have quite good records on most popes except for the first few ones that we get just in a list from St Irenaeus (for example from St Linus - the guy immediately after St Peter - we get almost nothing)

but about the middle age popes we know quite a lot NOW. But it used to be different.