What is "zoppo"

Usage examples of "zoppo".

And I had heard tales of Brother Paolo Zoppo, who in the forest of Rieti lived as a hermit and boasted of having re­ceived directly from the Holy Spirit the revelation that the carnal act was not a sin—so he seduced his victims, whom he called sisters, forcing them to submit to the lash on their naked flesh, making five genuflections on the ground in the form of a cross, before he presented them to God and claimed from them what he called the kiss of peace.