Vatican reveals Secret Archives
Jan 1st, 2010
From the Telegraph: Vatican reveals Secret Archives.
A 13th-century letter from Genghis Khan’s grandson demanding homage from the pope is among a collection of documents from the Vatican’s Secret Archives that has been published for the first time.
The Holy See’s archives contain scrolls, parchments and leather-bound volumes with correspondence dating back more than 1,000 years.
High-quality reproductions of 105 documents, 19 of which have never been seen before in public, have now been published in a book. The Vatican Secret Archives features a papal letter to Hitler, an entreaty to Rome written on birch bark by a tribe of North American Indians, and a plea from Mary Queen of Scots. [continue]
Interesting stuff. Wouldn’t you love to know what else is squirreled away in those archives? Lots of revealing, nay, embarrassing missives and artefacts.
By the way, off to the right of the article you linked to, was this headline: Women think fitting into old jeans is ‘better than sex’
Hmmmm…..
GOSH I wish we would use a translation other than “Secret.”
Just remember that the English word secretary has as much to do with secrecy as the secret in the Secret Archives – private to the Pope as opposed to the public Papal Court archives (the Curial Archives).