The public will now have the opportunity to look at more than 100 original documents in the Vatican Archives that hold ome 35,000 items on 52 miles of shelves. The collection, usually available only to scholars, was started in 1611 by Pope Paul V.
Among the notable items on display is the 1521 decree from Pope Leo X excommunicating German monk Martin Luther, a 1530 petition — complete with wax seals — from British Parliament asking Pope Clement VIII to annul King Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon, and an 1887 letter from an American Indian Ojibwe chief to Pope Leo XIII.
Other fascinating documents include a document signed by Galileo Galilei from his trial, manuscripts signed by Michelangelo and Napoleon Bonaparte, and a handwritten letter in French from Mary Queen of Scots to Pope Sixtus V, penned just weeks before she was beheaded by Queen Elizabeth of England.
The exhibit includes an original Gregorian calendar, named after Pope Gregory XIII, who reduced the errors of the Julian calendar by introducing the leap year and eliminating the days between Oct. 4-15, 1582, with the bull Inter Gravissimas.
One document in the exhibition is a letter written in 1793 by Marie Antoinette, while she was in prison, to Louis XVI’s brother Charles Philippe, count of Artois, who became King Charles X of France in 1824.
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Among the notable items on display is the 1521 decree from Pope Leo X excommunicating German monk Martin Luther, a 1530 petition — complete with wax seals — from British Parliament asking Pope Clement VIII to annul King Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon, and an 1887 letter from an American Indian Ojibwe chief to Pope Leo XIII.
Other fascinating documents include a document signed by Galileo Galilei from his trial, manuscripts signed by Michelangelo and Napoleon Bonaparte, and a handwritten letter in French from Mary Queen of Scots to Pope Sixtus V, penned just weeks before she was beheaded by Queen Elizabeth of England.
The exhibit includes an original Gregorian calendar, named after Pope Gregory XIII, who reduced the errors of the Julian calendar by introducing the leap year and eliminating the days between Oct. 4-15, 1582, with the bull Inter Gravissimas.
One document in the exhibition is a letter written in 1793 by Marie Antoinette, while she was in prison, to Louis XVI’s brother Charles Philippe, count of Artois, who became King Charles X of France in 1824.
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