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29th February 2012, 23:35
A preview of the official video for the exhibition-event Lux in Arcana -- The Vatican Secret Archives reveals itself http://www.luxinarcana.org. Filmed inside the Vatican Secret Archives, it shows rooms and bunkers in the Archive of the Popes, together with some of the 100 original documents that will leave the Vatican City for the first time in history. 12 centuries of history, 400 years of life, 85 kilometres of shelving: the world's most famous Archive reveals itself in the extraordinary halls of Rome's Capitoline Museums. Conclaves, heresies, popes and emperors. Crusades, excommunications, ciphered letters. Manuscripts, codices, ancient parchments. An exceptional and once-in-a-lifetime chance to learn History through its sources. February-September 2012.
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Website -
http://www.luxinarcana.org/?lang=en
The Vatican Is Finally Showing The Public Its 'Secret Archives'
Sanya Khetani (http://www.businessinsider.com/vatican-secret-archives-2012-2#ixzz1nobAojHm)
Among some of the documents on display will be a letter written by English nobles to Pope Clement VII in 1530, demanding King Henry VIII be allowed to divorce Catherine of Aragon in favor of Anne Boleyn; an 1887 letter from a Native American chieftain on a strip of bark, calling the Pope the “Grand Master of Prayers;” Galileo’s retraction of his heliocentric theories of the galaxy after being tried for heresy by the church in 1633; documents from the trials of the Knights Templar; the excommunication decree of Martin Luther; and the abdication deed of Queen Christina of Sweden, rumored to be a hermaphrodite who gave up her throne in 1654 to convert to Catholicism and move to Rome.
These are only a fraction of the treasures the archive holds, but the 50 miles of shelves packed with the popes' correspondences with everyone from Michelangelo, Voltaire, and the Borgias, to Mozart, Hitler, and Abraham Lincoln, are normally seen only by strictly vetted scholars.
The exhibit is designed to counter some of the myths perpetuated by works of fiction like Dan Brown's ‘Angels and Demons’
Im under no illusions that any big secrets will be revealled. Just curious as to what theyre up to.
aAao-fNIXDc
Website -
http://www.luxinarcana.org/?lang=en
The Vatican Is Finally Showing The Public Its 'Secret Archives'
Sanya Khetani (http://www.businessinsider.com/vatican-secret-archives-2012-2#ixzz1nobAojHm)
Among some of the documents on display will be a letter written by English nobles to Pope Clement VII in 1530, demanding King Henry VIII be allowed to divorce Catherine of Aragon in favor of Anne Boleyn; an 1887 letter from a Native American chieftain on a strip of bark, calling the Pope the “Grand Master of Prayers;” Galileo’s retraction of his heliocentric theories of the galaxy after being tried for heresy by the church in 1633; documents from the trials of the Knights Templar; the excommunication decree of Martin Luther; and the abdication deed of Queen Christina of Sweden, rumored to be a hermaphrodite who gave up her throne in 1654 to convert to Catholicism and move to Rome.
These are only a fraction of the treasures the archive holds, but the 50 miles of shelves packed with the popes' correspondences with everyone from Michelangelo, Voltaire, and the Borgias, to Mozart, Hitler, and Abraham Lincoln, are normally seen only by strictly vetted scholars.
The exhibit is designed to counter some of the myths perpetuated by works of fiction like Dan Brown's ‘Angels and Demons’
Im under no illusions that any big secrets will be revealled. Just curious as to what theyre up to.