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Around the year 1397 Manuel Chrysoloras came to the University of Bologna. While there, he formed an organization of students with the purpose of mutual protection of its members from physical attack and robbery from the governor of Bologna Baldassarre Cossa.

Cossa's persecution of the students in Bologna led Chrysoloras and his student followers to devise secret signs, words and froms -- a ritual -- to protect their ranks from penetration and betrayal. It was these rites that transformed their associtation from a protective guise against Cossa into something more important. Their ideals emboiled in a ritual transformed them from a group of men to a true brotherhood.
This work inspired the Ritual and beliefs of a modern-day fraternity -- Kappa Sigma.

In point of fact, however, that name was taken less than a century later than the death of John XXII by Baldassarre Cossa upon his election to the papacy as John XXIII on May 17, 1410. Thus, John joined the illustrious company of Rome's Gregory XII (1406-1415) and the Pope in Avignon, Benedict XIII (1394-1424). Infamous for his unscrupulousness and his ambition, Cossa was forced by the Council of Constance to abdicate on May 29, 1415, and he and Benedict were declared Anti-Popes. After a three year imprisonment in the Palatine, with his old enemy the Elector Ludwig III as his jailer, Cossa returned to Italy, where he threw himself on the mercy of Pope Martin V. He died as the Cardinal-Bishop of Tusculum on December 22, 1419.