VATICAN CITY - 5 October 2007 - 120 words
Vatican
Secret Archives to unveil rare book on Knights Templar
On October 25 in the Vatican's Old Synod Hall, the presentation
will take place of the "Processus contra Templarios,"
a book published by the Vatican Secret Archives on the subject
of the Knights Templar, the medieval military-religious order
founded in Jerusalem in 1118 and suppressed by Pope Clement V
(1305-1314).
According to a communique made public yesterday afternoon,
the new volume is "a previously unpublished and exclusive
edition of the complete acts of the original hearing against the
Knights Templar." The book, unique of its kind, will have
a print run "rigorously limited to 799 copies" and contains
the "faithful reproduction of the original parchments conserved
in the Vatican Secret Archives."
The project, the communique concludes, "is part of
the series of 'Exemplaria Praetiosa,' ... the most elaborate and
important publication yet undertaken by the Pontifical Archives."
The new volume will be presented by Archbishop Raffaele
Farina S.D.B., archivist and librarian of Holy Roman Church; Bishop
Sergio Pagano, prefect of the Vatican Secret Archives, and experts
such as the historian Franco Cardini and the archaeologist and
author Valerio Massimo Manfredi."
Source: VIS
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