The High Priestess
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La Popessa, also written as La Papessa, is a term used in tarot to refer to The Papess or The High Priestess playing card. It is also a term used informally by some Roman Catholics to refer to a woman who is perceived as exercising undue influence on a pope to the extent that she is seen as La Papessa or a "she pope"-- most recently Sister Pascalina who worked for Pope Pius XII. It was also used to refer to Pope Joan, the mythical woman pope who supposedly reigned as pope from 855 to 858.
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