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The use of the word secret in the former title, "Vatican Secret Archive", does not denote the modern meaning of confidentiality. A fuller and perhaps better translation of the archive's former Latin name may be the "private Vatican Apostolic archive", indicating that its holdings are the pope's personal property, not those of any particular department of the Roman Curia or the Holy See.
The Vatican Secret Archives (Latin: Archivum Secretum Vaticanum), located in Vatican City, is the central repository for all of the acts promulgated by the Holy See. The Pope of the Roman Catholic Church , having primal incumbency until death, owns the archives until the next appointed Papal successor.
The longtime prefect of what is now named the Vatican Apostolic Archive, Archbishop Sergio Pagano, is spilling the beans for the first time, revealing some of the secrets he has uncovered in the ...
An account of the banquet appears in the Liber Notarum of Johann Burchard, the Protonotary Apostolic and Master of Ceremonies. This diary, a primary source on the life of Alexander VI, was preserved in the Vatican Secret Archive; it became available to researchers in the mid-19th century when Pope Leo XIII opened the archive, although Leo expressed specific reluctance to allow general access ...
This is a list of archives in Vatican City. ... Vatican Secret Archives; Archive of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith; Vatican Film Library; See also
Interpretation of File:Coat of the Vatican Secret Archives.gif Français : Rond: champ central avec les clefs croisées (décussées) et surmontées du trirègne encadré de deux tours concentriques, un à un, contenant l’épigraphe: ARCHIVUM SECRETUM APOSTOLICUM VATICANUM avec le début et la fin en bas, disjoints de l’étoile noire ...
The Secretariat of State performs all the political and diplomatic functions of the Holy See and the Vatican City State. The secretary of state is sometimes described as the prime minister of the Holy See, [ 2 ] even though the nominal head of government of Vatican City is the President of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State .
The Vatican Apostolic Library (Latin: Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, Italian: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana), more commonly known as the Vatican Library or informally as the Vat, [1] is the library of the Holy See, located in Vatican City, and is the city-state's national library. It was formally established in 1475, although it is much ...