How evil and power hungry was Pope Boniface VIII (1294-1303)? After massacring the entire population in the Italian town of Palestrina where he killed 1000s of civilians after promising them mercy in and stub 1297, Boniface VIII indulged in threesomes with a married woman and her daughter and became renowned through Rome as a shameless pedophile. He famously declared that having sex with young boys was no more a sin than rubbing one hand against the other — which should make him the patron