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The Vatican Archives
[BR] [BR]This picture was part of a newspaper article featuring [blockquote][hr size=0][!-quote-!][font size=1]quote:[/font][p](105) timeless treasures that helped shape and form the world we live in, published for the first time in The Vatican Secret Archives, a 252-page book lavishly illustrated with 344 colour photos and modern interpretations. [BR] [BR]The book, $87.23 at Amazon.ca Saturday (but temporarily out of stock), is being published in English, French, Italian and Dutch editions. [BR] [BR]And for the truly obsessive collector, there's a limited edition available for $8,400. Only 33 copies will be printed on felt and hand-stitched, and three are already reserved – one for Pope Benedict XVI, one for the Vatican Library and one for, what else, the Vatican Secret Archives. [BR] [BR]The original letters, whether written on parchment, silk or birch bark, are reproduced in exquisite detail, and a modern commentary accompanies each document. [BR] [BR]They range from the sublime to the ridiculous – a 1586 letter from Mary Queen of Scots, written to Pope Sixtus V several weeks before her execution, to a 1246 demand by Grand Khan Güyük, the grandson of Genghis Khan, ordering Pope Innocent IV to travel to Central Asia, his "kings" in tow, to "pay service and homage to us" as an act of "submission." [BR] [BR]Otherwise, it warns, "you shall be our enemy." [BR] [BR]Also included:[ul][li]In what surely must rank as one of history's most impertinent "pay up" letters, Michelangelo writes in 1550 to demand that the Vatican pay his bill, then three months overdue, and complains that his work on the dome of St. Peter's Basilica has been interrupted by a papal conclave; [LI]Letters from Henry VIII and the peers of England written in 1530 about the king's "Great Matter" – divorce, of course, and a matter near and dear to the hearts of any Tudors fan; [LI]The document conferring the Order of the Golden Spur on Mozart in 1770; [LI]The 1493 papal bull "inter cetera" of Alexander VI, awarding the New World, as the Americas were then known, to Spain; [LI]Documents from the heresy trials of the Knights Templar in 1308-10; [LI]The sentence of the Council of Pisa in 1409 deposing popes Benedict XIII and Gregory XII, and [LI]The papal bull condemning and excommunicating Martin Luther in 1520-21.[/li][/ul]For all its marvellous treasures and historical intrigue, the Vatican insists – Dan Brown and his ilk notwithstanding – that there's very little that's "secret" about the Secret Archives. [BR] [BR][a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/745249--vatican-unlocks-its-secret-archives" target=_top]http://www.thestar.com/news/world/artic … t-archives[/a][!-/quote-!][hr size=0][/blockquote]Comments [BR] [BR]Adventists have "secret" archives as well. Tom has shared his experience studying at the White Estate's archives. The White Estate is far more open now than in earlier days, though the archives there are still not free of "secrecy." Permission must still be sought for the release to the public of some information. [BR] [BR]There exists another archives known as [a href="http://ast.gc.adventist.org/default.asp" target="_blank"]the Adventist Office of Archives and Statistics[/a] [BR] [BR][a href="http://www.oestadio.com/noticia.php?noticia=142" target="_blank"][img src="http://www.atomorrow.net/discus/messages/120/2402.jpg" alt=""][/a] [BR][font size="-2"]Click on picture for source.[/font] [BR] [BR]Bert Haloviak's work in making the archives available online is very much appreciated. Thousands of primary and secondary documents are now available to historians interested in Adventism's past. [BR] [BR][img src="http://www.atomorrow.net/discus/messages/120/2403.jpg" alt=""] [BR][font color="ffffff"][font size="-2"].[/font][/font]
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