Al might learn how to spell and hopefully PRONOUNCE the name Galileo,...assuming he can read CURSIVE
Posted on 09/03/2014 12:27:27 PM PDT by marshmallow
Some believe it houses evidence of extraterrestrial life. Others, ancient texts that disprove the existence of Jesus. Perhaps dark truths that would discredit and destroy the Church?
A mistranslated Latin word may be responsible for the conspiracy theories about the Vatican Secret Archives. In fact, the actual contents can stand on their own without delving into the absurd.
The archives, or Archivum Secretum Apostolicum Vaticanum, contains historical records chronicling intriguing historical events. Its contents, once plundered by Napoleon and moved to Paris, span 12 centuries.
* There’s the document that began the Protestant reformations: Pope Leo X’s 1521 decree excommunicating Martin Luther.
* A 1530 petition from 85 English clergymen and lords asks Pope Clement VII to annul King Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon. The seals of many of the signatories were affixed to the petition, each held in place by red ribbon. This is considered the source of the term “red tape.” Clement refused, of course, leading to the establishment of the Anglican Church.
* Michelangelo penned a letter to the pope warning that Vatican guards hadn’t received paychecks in three months, and that they were threatening to walk off the job.
* A year after Columbus landed in what became North America, Pope Alexander VI issued Inter Cetera, the 1493 papal bull that split the New World between Spain and Portugal.
* There are letters from Abraham Lincoln as well as Jefferson Davis, who wrote to try to convince Pope Pius IX that the South was an innocent victim of Northern aggression. Neither man was Catholic.
(Excerpt) Read more at cruxnow.com ...
Jimmy Hoffa?
The true Da Vinci Code lurks therein, no doubt.
Dan Brown’s next book will surely tell us.
If they told us what’s hidden in the secret archives, then it wouldn’t be “secret” anymore.
The Richard the Third Society is currently petitioning the Vatican to find his dispensation to marry his wife, Anne Nevil - she was his first cousin. Oh, to be able to spend a day in the Vatican archives. What a thrill that would be.
In before the Lost Ark / warehouse pic.
You could always send big Al this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqymcJRSbxI to help him get his start
(the drunk in the back of a cop car...)
The Prince of Darkness... one of the most boring movies I’ve ever watched, until the last 30 seconds, which made all the hair on my body stand up and I didn’t sleep for a week.
This sounds like a job for Herwaldo.
Probably a couple old Playboy magazines and a half filled bottle of scotch.
Yes, because that's the kind of stuff you hold for safe keeping....not destroy.
Can you imagine? These aren’t just artifacts that shaped history, they ARE history!
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Absolutely. And to think there are freepers who hope to find out that Leonardo really did paint by numbers!
“Rev” Al would surely pronounce it “Jalileo.” If he got that close.
Al referred to him as..... Galayoh..be much assured
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