Rome, the cradle of ancient civilization, attracts not only those who want to see the well-known monuments of architecture and art, but also lovers of intellectual relaxation, connoisseurs of history and traditions. Many of them come to the eternal City to visit the Vatican, which houses the world-famous library. And if earlier it was at the disposal of the pope, today anyone can examine it.

The Vatican is partly called a "state within a state." Any tourist who comes to Rome can simultaneously visit another state - such a paradox. Despite the fact that the Vatican is a tiny state, it is there that the holy of holies of the Catholic world is located - the official residence of the Pope.

The Papal Palace is also sometimes called the Apostolic Palace. This is a large, grand complex of buildings that includes the Papal Apartments, government offices of the Roman Catholic Church, several chapels, the Vatican Museums and the famous Library.

The palace is not a single building, but a huge collection of palaces, halls, galleries and chapels. What's most interesting is that they all belong to different eras and styles. The palace has up to 20 courtyards, more than 200 stairs and 12,000 rooms! This is a real treasury of the greatest works of art, rightfully enjoying worldwide fame. Among them, of course, is the well-known former home church of the Vatican, the Sistine Chapel. Today the Chapel is a museum and monument of the Renaissance. Its walls were painted by such great painters as Sandro Botticelli, Michelangelo and Pinturicchio.

The Papal Residence is framed by wonderful gardens with well-groomed alleys.

Anyone who is at least somewhat interested in culture and history should definitely visit this fabulous palace in order to feel all the beauty of ancient treasures, to see with their own eyes what we have read about so many times, to touch the history frozen within these grandiose walls. Many lovers of science and art are undoubtedly attracted by the Vatican Apostolic Library. This unique repository of documents, manuscripts and books has a rich collection of manuscripts from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

By the way, the library, founded in the 15th century, is still replenishing its funds. Today it has about 1,600,000 printed books, 150,000 manuscripts, 8,300 incunabula, more than 100,000 engravings and maps, 300,000 coins and medals. The library also includes the Vatican School of Librarians and a laboratory for the restoration and reproduction of important manuscripts (facsimiles).

But let's plunge back into the distant ninth century to understand where the oldest Vatican library comes from. As we have already said, the collection of the first documents began in the ninth century, when an archive began to be collected in the Lutheran Palace. Two centuries later, the collection of ancient manuscripts began to be overseen by the Vatican Secretary of State, and in the 13th century the special position of the Vatican librarian first appeared. The library then included codices decorated with miniatures, including 32 Greek manuscripts from the collection of Frederick II.

In the 14th century, some of the collections were brutally looted. By order of Pope Clement V, 643 valuable manuscripts were transferred to Assisi, but a decade later the city was attacked by the rival Ghibelline political faction, after which many documents from this collection were also lost.

Pope Nicholas V is considered the founder of the modern library. Under his predecessor, Pope Eugenius IV, 350 works in Latin, Greek and Hebrew were discovered. These manuscripts and the personal collection of Pope Nicholas V formed the basis of the Vatican Library.

By the way, dad tried to expand the library’s holdings not only through European manuscripts, but also by bringing valuable documents from the East. He even sent entire expeditions to search for surviving collections from the imperial library of Constantinople.

Formally, the public library was founded on June 15, 1475. Five years later, the collection already numbered 3,500 manuscripts, and in the same year several new premises were built. They received their names from the collections stored there: Greek, Latin, secret and papal libraries. By the way, at that time all meetings could be watched on site only under strict supervision!

During the sack of Rome in the 16th century, the library already contained four thousand manuscripts. Unfortunately, in those cruel times, some of them were seriously damaged. In 1588, Pope Sixtus V commissioned the architect Domenico Fontana to build a new building for the library. It is located opposite the old library. The manuscripts were stored in special wooden cabinets. It must be said that Pope Sixtus V, being a slightly vain man, did not fail to compare himself with the founders of such famous libraries as Alexandria, Rome and Athens.

At the beginning of the 17th century for storage archival documents A separate building was already allocated. This is how the history of the Secret Archive began, which, by the way, still exists to this day. The Vatican Secret Archive is a collection of archival documents from the Middle Ages to the present day. Some Italians joke that the archive contains a dossier on every resident of the Vatican and Rome. It is called secret because it is the private archive of the Pope and is limited to visitors. In the last century, the archives were added to the archives of the congregations, the Apostolic Palace, the First Vatican Council and the Second Vatican Council.

The Secret Archive is divided into several categories: for the collections of the Curia, the archives of papal representatives and Vatican Councils, as well as the collection of orders, monasteries and abbeys. The archives of individual families and some private individuals are also kept here. In total, the funds of the Secret Archive amount to 630 different archives, and in total they number about 35 thousand volumes!

Among them there are truly unique manuscripts, for example, letters from Michelangelo himself or a letter from Henry VIII, in which he writes about his request to annul his marriage to his wife. Today, anyone can access documents before 1922, which is why about 1,500 scientists from all over the world work in the Secret Archive every year.

But let's return to the library itself. Back in the 17th century, a tradition arose of donating private collections and royal collections to the Vatican Library. For example, in 1623, it was replenished with many unique books, when the Elector of Bavaria, Maximilian I, presented Pope Gregory XV with part of the Heidelberg Library that he had captured.

And almost thirty years later, under Pope Alexander VII, the Urbino Library was transported to the Vatican from Urbino. It contained a rich collection of Renaissance manuscripts. In the same century, the collection was replenished with the collection of the Swedish Queen Christina.

It is surprising that despite the prevailing situation in the country, or the pope holding the sacred post, the library was always replenished with the most interesting and rare documents and books. And the coming 18th century did not change traditions. An expedition was organized to Syria and Egypt, led by Yosfi Assemani. Over two years of work in the monasteries of the Nitrian desert, Cairo, Damascus and Lebanon, he collected about 150 valuable manuscripts. They also took a worthy place in the collection of the Vatican Library.

The oldest Vatican library survived the Napoleonic Wars, from which, unfortunately, it emerged with losses: in 1797, 500 manuscripts were confiscated by the French directory. However, in 1815, most of the taken away was nevertheless returned to the Vatican.

In the mid-19th century, the library was replenished with a collection of books by Count Cicognard. At the same time, almost one and a half thousand manuscripts of Cardinal Angelo Mai, the former chief librarian, appeared in it.

The next in office, Pope Leo XIII, actively took up the modernization of the library. They opened a reading room for printed books and founded a laboratory for the restoration of manuscripts. At the same time, rules for cataloging manuscripts were introduced, which, by the way, are still in effect today!

The pope, like his predecessors, began to expand the library's funds and collections. He acquired about 300 scrolls of the old Avignon library from the Borghese collection, followed by the unique archives of Cardinal Francesco Barberini. In addition, the library's funds were replenished by the collection Sistine Chapel- collection on the history of music.

Until the middle of the last century, the library's archives were constantly replenished with amazing and one-of-a-kind collections from noble families of the Vatican and Rome, artists and poets, historians and princely families. There is no such fund anywhere else in the world!

In total, the library contains about 50 thousand manuscripts. The largest include, for example, the collection of the Barberini family and the Borgiani collection. And among the world's most famous manuscripts are the Scroll of Jesus, the manuscript "On the Art of Hunting with Birds" by Frederick II and the Codex Vaticanus - one of the most valuable manuscripts of the Greek Bible. It is dated to the middle of the 4th century.

The library houses an exhibition of the most valuable and beautifully designed publications kept in the Vatican.

In addition, in the library you can see ancient manuscripts with works of such geniuses as Cicero, Terence, Homer, Aristotle and Euclid, and even the Bodmer papyrus, containing the most ancient text of the Gospels of Luke and John. The library also stores two copies of the “first book in Europe” - the famous first-printed Gutenberg Bible, dated to the mid-15th century. This 42-line Bible is the first folio edition of the Vulgate, undertaken in Mainz in the mid-15th century by Johannes Gutenberg. And the Bible is famous there because it still serves as the traditional starting point for the history of printing in Europe.

In addition to all these manuscripts and manuscripts, the library still contains letters from Thomas Aquinas, Petrarch, Michelangelo, Raphael and several letters from Martin Luther and Henry VIII.

In terms of books, printed publications in the Vatican Library have been sectioned, cataloged and presented electronically on the Internet since 1985.

The library in the Papal Palace is a broader and richer phenomenon than just a repository of books and ancient manuscripts. In its halls and museums of secular and religious art Extensive collections of artifacts are on display. In the mid-18th century, the collection of Pope Benedict XIV was transferred to the library. He at one time acquired a collection of ancient Christian glassware from Cardinal Gaspare Carpeña.

This was followed by a collection precious stones Vettori. Both collections later became part of the library's museum of religious art. You can also see a collection of antique medallions in the museum. They are very skillfully made with a thin layer of gold between the layers of glass. And they represent medallions married couples, saints, scenes from the Bible, and secular themes. By the way, many of these artifacts were discovered in the catacombs of Rome.

And in the middle of the 16th century, a collection of coins and medals was opened, but, undoubtedly, the greatest contribution to the collection was made by Pope Benedict XIV. He acquired Cardinal Allesandro Albani's rich collection of Greek and Roman coins. In size, this unique collection is second only to the collection of the King of France.

The Vatican Library also houses the famous fresco “The Wedding of Aldobrandina”. It was found in 1604 on the Esquiline Hill. Removed from the wall, it was placed in the "Aldobrandini Gardens" of Pope Clement VIII (hence its name). Only in 1818 was it moved to the Vatican Library.

Today, the main library of the Vatican attracts those who love and appreciate the history of the Roman Empire, are interested in something new, want to spend time not only sightseeing, but also lift the veil of time to look into the past.

The ancient walls of this sacred state saw not only the light of Faith and Hope, but sometimes darkness even happened to make a nest here. Lies, betrayal and envy did not escape this place. Indifference - instead of love, deceit - instead of wisdom, pride - instead of humility, intolerance and greed - all this was also there. And history will not forget this...

The entire history of the Vatican has been riddled with controversy and mystery. And, despite the apparent spirituality of the papal state, here, too, passions were in full swing, intrigues were in full swing. After all, for a long time the Catholic Church was closely connected with Rome.

It is about the Vatican that terrible legends are told, legends about the punishing hand of the Inquisition, which terrified people in the Middle Ages.

During the Roman Empire, Christianity slowly gained strength, and throughout the territory religious communities tried to seize power. But only the Roman community succeeded, and since then it has turned not only into the center of a religious movement, but also into a powerful political force. Until the nineteenth century, all other provinces endured a state of siege, military trials took place, and people were sent to prison or exile.

Rubens, "Apostle Peter"

One of the legends associated with the Vatican says that the founder of the Roman community was none other than the disciple of Jesus Christ - the Apostle Peter. The chronicles that have survived to this day also speak in favor of this fact. And although today no one can say whether this was true or whether in this way the Roman community was trying to emphasize its superiority by being close to the founder of the religion of Christianity, there is still a story that Peter actually preached and lived in Rome. According to legend, his grave is located exactly on the hill where the Vatican is located today. And later the Church of St. Peter was erected there.

Another legend says that Rome was the city that for the longest time prevented the spread of the Christian religion in the state. And that’s why the blood of the great martyrs was shed here and Peter himself was killed here. Therefore, the Roman community was simply obliged to take responsibility before posterity for atonement for the sins of its citizens. And that is why the Vatican was created.

But the most amazing, and at the same time very sad secret about the Vatican is the story of Pope John VIII, or rather, the pope. In the history of Catholics there is a very strange and very unpleasant fact for believers, which today in the Vatican is considered fiction, but no one still knows exactly what really happened.

According to legend, in the ninth century, for several years the papal throne was occupied by... a woman. It must be said that in those days a woman was considered the offspring of the devil.

Pope Joan as the Whore of Babylon

So, according to legend, a certain Christian missionary, traveling around the world, acquired a daughter, Agnes. However, taking this girl with him everywhere for a missionary was far from the most worthy occupation at that time, and therefore, dressing her in a man’s dress, he made her his first assistant. Agnes studied well, but one day her father was killed. For this teenage girl the best option to survive was to remain a boy. She wandered around the world like this for several years and eventually settled in a monastery near the city of Fulda, taking the name Johann.

She stood out greatly among her brothers, but at the age of sixteen, having fallen in love with a monk, she ran away with her lover to France. But on the way he died, and Agnes, remaining under the name Johann, began to new life. She arrived in Rome and began to slowly advance to the upper tier of the clergy, and in 855, after the death of Pontiff Leo IV, she ascended the papal throne. And, it is quite possible that no one would have found out about the true sex of the pope, but Agnes made a mistake: she became pregnant. She had contractions during Procession of the Cross, which ended in death for both the child and the pope.

Also, the most fascinating mystery of the Vatican is the location of the tomb of the Apostle Peter. It is with her that she is very connected interesting story, which happened quite recently, in the middle of the last century.

So, on February 10, 1939, when Pope Pius XI died, a huge number of believers gathered in the huge St. Peter's Cathedral, who, in a single mournful impulse, fervently prayed for the repose of the soul of the pontiff.

At the same time, under the nave of the cathedral, in the crypt, work was in full swing. Workers were removing marble slabs from the dungeon floor. But after digging about twenty centimeters, the spades again stumbled upon the slabs. Moreover, behind the wall there was a fairly spacious niche. And since the workers knew that the cathedral was built on stilts on loose soil, they had doubts: whether to continue the excavations or not, since as a result they could upset the balance of the entire building.

But what were these workers doing in the dungeon, and on such a day? It turned out that they were fulfilling the will of the deceased pope, who at that moment was escorted by crowds of believers to last way. Just the day before, the will of Pius XI, drawn up by him in his own hand, was opened, where he wanted to be buried under the southern wall of the ancient dungeon, near Pius X, close to the “confession” of Peter, where, according to the legends, the tomb of the first disciple was located Savior.

“Confessional” of the Apostle Peter (under the floor is the place of the apostle’s supposed burial)

The manager of Vatican affairs, Cardinal Pacelli, who in a few days was to take the papal rank and the name Pius XII, ordered the preparation of burial in the bequeathed place. And although the architects warned that there was unlikely to be enough space for a grave, the cardinal ordered the floor behind the wall to be removed in the dungeon to free up the necessary space.

A priest stood near the workers, carefully examining the garbage that the workers were clearing out. His name was Ludwig Kaas. German by nationality, Kaas held the title of doctor and was a professor of church history. Once upon a time, his dad instructed him to explore the dungeon under the Cathedral, so for five years Kaas explored this dungeon by inch.

The spacious niche that was discovered under the floor suggested that this might be the tomb of Peter.

The secret of the tomb of the Apostle Peter possessed Pacelli's heart and soul all his life. When the conclave elected him pope, and he became Pius XII, the first thing he did was go down into the dungeon to look at the sacred slab with his own eyes. The Pontiff, after much deliberation, gave an order that his predecessors were afraid to even voice: he ordered excavations to begin under the cathedral, where, in his opinion, the tomb of the Apostle should have been.

It must be said that the pontiff took a great risk. After all, if it turned out that there was nothing there, and St. Peter was not in the Vatican, then this would be evidence that would completely refute the sacred legend.

It turned out that the slabs that the workers stumbled upon were nothing more than the foundation of the floor of the first basilica, which was erected by Emperor Constantine at the beginning of the fourth century. And traditions say that the altar of the basilica stands just above the tomb of Peter, and when the basilica of Constantine itself was destroyed, a cathedral was built in its place, the one that has survived to this day. And the altar was installed in the same place, having cut a window in the floor - a confessional, from which believers could look at the tomb of St. Peter, hidden deep underground. But this was strange, to say the least, since no one could know for sure whether the relics of St. Peter were there or not.

No one knew about the excavations: the “masons” were obliged to remain silent and not tell anyone about the work, not even their household members. But after the war, the world still learned about the excavations. In his speeches, Pius XII hinted in a rather veiled form that the excavations would bring some “confidence,” but his omissions only spurred interest.

But the further the workers dug, the more interesting things they discovered. If it was previously believed that the southern walls rest on the walls of Nero’s circus that was once located here and that part of the cathedral is located where Christians were executed under Nero and where Peter was supposed to have been crucified, then excavations have revealed something completely different.

It turned out that the Basilica of Constantine was built on the site where the cemetery was once located. One can imagine the state of archaeologists when they first came across one mausoleum, and then the rest, which stood in a row, turning into a kind of enfilade. Under the blows of shovels, a whole necropolis appeared from the darkness: dozens of mausoleums, sarcophagi and crypts...

Little by little, the outlines of the cemetery were revealed: truly, it was the largest necropolis that archaeologists had ever found here. And he was located just under the nave. From the inscriptions on the mausoleums it was clear that the burials were intended for pagans and only a few of them for Christians. This means that they were buried here at the very dawn of Christianity, long before Constantine ordered the construction of a temple on this site. And this meant that Christians themselves chose this pagan cemetery as their last refuge.

But why? There must have been a very good reason for this: for example, the desire to find eternal peace near Peter.

One of the mausoleums was surrounded by a wall, which archaeologists called the “red wall.” And it was there that a mosaic depicting a Galilean fisherman was found. Yes, yes, the same Peter whom the Savior called to feed His sheep.

In this way, the chronology of events can be restored. In 67, Peter was executed at Nero's circus and buried in a nearby cemetery. And starting from the 80s, his grave began to be protected: the wall in the dungeon testifies to this. It is possible that the Christians, probably having bought this site, built this stone fence around the tomb of Peter. Thus, in the second century, the so-called “red wall” was erected by the faithful.

It turns out that excavations in the dungeon confirm the existing tradition, but the question arises: if Peter’s tomb was found, then where could his relics go?

The “fenced place” was examined up and down, establishing that this was the tomb of St. Peter, but there was one problem. Unfortunately, it turned out to be empty.

But scientists were not so pessimistic. Some experts on the history of Catholicism note that in one of the niches there are human remains, although without a skull. Medical examination has proven that these are the bones of one person, and a person of not very old age. The documents mention these remains in passing, but there is every reason to believe that the remains that were found under the “red wall” still belong to Peter’s grave.

One day in July 1939, Pius XII turned in his thoughts to the “confessional” of the Apostle - St. Peter. It was at this time that he made a rather responsible decision for himself to “get to the bottom” of the secret, despite the fact that many would still prefer that this secret be surrounded by a veil of mystery - after all, then it would be much calmer to live...

But for some reason it seems that it was Pius XII who left this life calmly, without a heaviness on his heart. After all, in the end, this dad was convinced that he had believed all his spiritual life not in vain, and he knew the answer to the question that worried him even before archaeologists found it. Truly, faith often still outstrips science.

Anyone who tries to conduct even a superficial, but independent analysis modern history, cannot help but notice that history has been rewritten many times by some extremely powerful forces that not only carefully control the appearance of any archaeological artifacts, but are also able to provide “authoritative opinions” of academicians in the form of textbooks for mass schools and advanced “scientific articles."

However, if the analysis is no longer superficial, but strictly scientific and deep, then the researcher will come to an even more terrible conclusion. The conclusion is that history was not rewritten, but was INVENTED, created exclusively on paper, out of nowhere, from scratch. And one of the most powerful forces involved in fraud was and still is... the Vatican.

Many now believe that people were once Pithecanthropus and Neanderthals, climbing trees until they learned to walk. And only then did they turn into modern people. However, the facts indicate the opposite.

To explain such findings, many “theories” have been invented, up to the assumption that some Indians themselves deformed the skulls of children so that they corresponded to the canons of beauty accepted in the tribe. However, for some reason academicians do not explain where such canons came from.

However, there are a lot of similar skulls (not to mention the skeletons of giants), in weight equivalent their total weight is many tons. At the same time, if you collect EVERYTHING that remains of australopithecus from museums, then the exhibits will fit on just one table. In the case of transitional species, we are talking about pieces of ten bones collected at ten points on the planet, on the basis of which anthropologists make a so-called “reconstruction”

Why is it not some academic Darwinists, but the Vatican, who are behind the concealment of the origins of humanity? Because all of its temples and churches are built over so-called “pagan objects,” that is, another Vatican invention.

In fact, during construction it was exclusively about masking the remnants of antediluvian civilization that were not covered with sand and silt, that is, which were located directly on the surface and raised questions among new generations.

Moreover, some of the hidden ancient buildings definitely were (perhaps still are!) superdimensional portals, built either by aliens traveling far into space, or by the high-tech ancestors of modern people. It is quite possible that compared to us they were a different, much more advanced species. And these ancient highly developed builders undoubtedly lived on Earth.

If the general public had known about this prior civilization even in the 19th century, the global state would not have had the necessary control over the population. So the Bible interpreters got involved first, talking about some “wild pagans” and the primitive world “before the flood.” Closer to the 20th century, when the flock became somewhat wiser, the role of priests was taken over by academics, who told everything in different words, but in principle it was absolutely the same.

Fortunately, gradually all the layers of husk are blown away and today it is very exciting for us to watch how curious independent researchers are digging up more and more evidence of a great ancient civilization.

The Diaries of Hans Nilser or What is the Vatican Hiding?

The huge Vatican library, founded in 1475, but in fact much earlier, since at the official opening there was already a large book base that contains the sacred knowledge of humanity.

In it you can find all the answers to any questions, including questions about the origin of life on Earth. The library consists mainly of Masonic collections. These meetings are the most secret. Why does the Holy Church not want to share ancient knowledge with the whole world?

Maybe they are afraid that this knowledge may call into question the existence of the church?

Whether this is true or not, we do not know, but it is a fact that only the Pope has access to some scrolls. Others are not allowed to know this. There are also secret rooms in the Vatican Library that the clergy themselves do not know about.

Since ancient times, popes have spent enormous amounts of money on obtaining new valuable manuscripts, realizing that all power lies in knowledge. So they amassed a huge collection. According to official data, today the Vatican storage facilities contain 70,000 manuscripts, 8,000 first-printed books, and a million later printed editions , more than 100,000 engravings, about 200,000 maps and documents, as well as many works of art that cannot be counted individually.

The clergy announced many times that they were going to open access to the library’s treasures to everyone, but things never went further than promises. In order to obtain the right to work in a library, you need to have an impeccable (from the point of view of the clergy, of course) reputation. Access to many book collections is closed in principle.

No more than 150 carefully vetted researchers work in the library every day; This number includes church leaders, which are the majority here. The Vatican Library is one of the most protected objects in the world: its protection is more serious than any of the existing ones nuclear power plants. In addition to numerous Swiss Guards The library is guarded by ultra-modern automatic systems that form several levels of protection.

It is possible that the Vatican contains part of the Library of Alexandria. (previously they wrote that they say it was burned by insane religious figures, well, really - but who else can the burning be blamed on?)

As the story goes, this library was created by Pharaoh Ptolemy Soter shortly before the beginning of our era and was replenished at an accelerated pace. Egyptian officials took to the library all Greek parchments imported into the country: every ship that arrived in Alexandria, if it had literary works on it, had to either sell them to the library or provide them for copying.

The library's keepers hurriedly copied every book they could get their hands on, and hundreds of slaves worked every day, copying and sorting thousands of scrolls. Ultimately, by the beginning of our era, the Library of Alexandria numbered up to 700,000 manuscripts and was considered the largest book collection Ancient world. The works of major scientists and writers were stored here, books on dozens of different languages. They said that there is not a single valuable thing in the world literary work, a copy of which would not have been in the Library of Alexandria.

What are the clergy hiding?

Why were the original Bible texts replaced with handwritten ones?

The Bible that we are used to keeping on our shelf is nothing more than a “washed up” likeness of the real Bible.

Rome gives us the spiritual knowledge that it considers necessary. With the help of the Bible, the Holy Church rules humanity.

Objectionable texts are brazenly removed from “public use” .

Therefore, it is useless to interpret the Bible, since it was written “under dictation” of the Vatican. Having this knowledge, the Masonic Lodge, which was created by Rome, still has unlimited power. It is almost impossible to be a government ruler and not be a Freemason. They control all of humanity and decide its fate. Who will die, who will survive - such sentences are pronounced every day...(and it's not a joke)

How long will we have to wait to solve the riddle?

The time will come when humanity will “take away” this knowledge from one-sided use and many myths and legends will dissipate and the Church will lose its power and will no longer be needed.

Selected quotes from Hans Nilser's 1899 Diary, which describe the secrets of the Vatican, ancient manuscripts with which the author worked. Unknown manuscripts of the Gospels and narratives of the life of Jesus Christ. Vedas and much more that is so carefully hidden from people.

Hans Nilser was born in 1849 into a large burgher family and was a devout Catholic. From childhood, his parents prepared him to be ordained, and the boy himself, from childhood, expected to devote himself to serving God. He was incredibly lucky: the bishop noticed his abilities and sent the talented young man to the papal court. Since Hans was primarily interested in the history of the Church, he was sent to work in the Vatican archives.

April 12, 1899 Today the senior archivist showed me several funds about which I had no idea. Naturally, I myself will also have to remain silent about what I saw. I looked with awe at these shelves on which documents related to the most early periods our Church. Just think: all these papers are witnesses to the life and deeds of the holy apostles, and perhaps even the Savior! My task for the next few months is to collate, clarify and supplement the catalogs relating to these funds. The catalogs themselves are placed in a niche in the wall, disguised so ingeniously that I would never have guessed their existence.

April 28, 1899 I work 16-17 hours a day. The senior librarian praises me and warns me with a smile that at this rate I will go through all the Vatican collections in a year. In fact, health problems are already making themselves felt - here, in the dungeon, the temperature and humidity are maintained optimal for books, but destructive for humans. However, at the end of the day, I am doing something that pleases the Lord! Nevertheless, my confessor persuaded me to rise to the surface every two hours for at least ten minutes.

May 18, 1899 I never tire of being amazed at the treasures contained in this fund. There is so much material here that is unknown even to me, who diligently studied that era! Why do we keep them secret instead of making them available to theologians? Obviously, materialists, socialists and slanderers can distort these texts, causing irreparable damage to our sacred cause. This, of course, cannot be allowed. But still...

June 2, 1899 I read the texts in detail. Something incomprehensible is happening - obvious works of heretics in the catalog stand next to the true creations of the Fathers of the Church! Absolutely impossible confusion. For example, a certain biography of the Savior attributed to the Apostle Paul himself. This is no longer possible! I'll contact the senior librarian.

June 3, 1899 The senior librarian listened to me, for some reason became thoughtful, looked at the text I found, and then simply advised me to leave everything as it was. He said that I should continue working, he would explain everything later.

June 9, 1899 Long conversation with the chief librarian. It turns out that much of what I considered apocrypha is true! Of course, the Gospel is a God-given text, and the Lord himself ordered that some documents be hidden so that they would not confuse the minds of believers. After all to the common man we need the simplest possible teaching, without any unnecessary details, and the existence of different readings only contributes to a split. The apostles were just people, albeit saints, and each of them could add something of their own, invent something, or simply interpret it incorrectly, so many texts did not become canonical and were not included in New Testament. This is how the senior librarian explained it to me. This is all reasonable and logical, but something is bothering me.

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June 11, 1899 My confessor said that I should not think too much about what I had learned. After all, I am firm in my faith, and human misconceptions should not affect the image of the Savior. Reassured, I continued my work.

August 12, 1899 With every day of my work, very strange facts multiply. The gospel story appears in a completely new light. However, I won’t trust this to anyone, not even my diary.

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October 23, 1899 I wish I had died this morning. For in the collections entrusted to me, I discovered many documents indicating that the story of the Savior was invented from beginning to end! The senior librarian I approached explained to me what was hidden here. main secret: people did not see the coming of the Savior and did not recognize him. And then the Lord taught Paul how to bring faith to people, and he got down to business. Of course, to do this, he had to create, with God’s help, a myth that would attract people. All this is quite logical, but for some reason I feel uneasy: Are the foundations of our teaching so shaky and fragile that we need some kind of myths?

January 15, 1900 I decided to see what other secrets the library was hiding. There are many hundreds of storage facilities similar to the one I work in now. Since I work alone, I can, albeit with a certain risk, penetrate into the others. This is a sin, especially since I will not tell my confessor about it. But I swear in the name of the Savior that I pray to him!

March 22, 1900 The head librarian fell ill and I was finally able to get into the other secret rooms. I'm afraid I don't know all of them. The ones I saw are filled with the most different books in languages ​​unknown to me. There are some among them that look very strange: stone slabs, clay tables, multi-colored threads woven into bizarre knots. I saw Chinese characters and Arabic script. I don’t know all these languages; only Greek, Hebrew, Latin and Aramaic are available to me.

June 26, 1900 From time to time I continue my research for fear of being discovered. Today I discovered a thick folder with Fernand Cortez’s reports to the Pope. Strange, I never knew that Cortez was closely connected with the Church. It turned out that almost half of his detachment consisted of priests and monks. At the same time, I got the impression that Cortez initially knew perfectly well where and why he was going, and deliberately went to the capital of the Aztecs. However, the Lord has many miracles! However, why do we keep silent about such a great role of our Church?

November 9, 1900 Decided to leave aside documents related to the Middle Ages. My work in the vault is almost finished, and it seems that they no longer want to let me access top-secret papers. Apparently, my bosses have some kind of suspicion, although I try not to attract their attention in any way.

December 28, 1900 I found a very interesting fund dating back to my period. Documents in classical Greek, I read and enjoy. It looks like this is a translation from Egyptian, I can’t vouch for its accuracy, but one thing is clear: we're talking about about some secret organization, very powerful, which relies on the authority of the gods and rules the country.

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1January 7, 1901 Incredible! This simply cannot be! In the Greek text I found clear indications that the priests of the Egyptian god Amun and the first hierarchs of our Holy Church belonged to the same secret society! Did the Lord really choose such people to bring people the light of His truth? No, no, I don't want to believe it...

February 22, 1901 I think the head librarian suspected something. At least I feel like I’m being watched, so I stopped working with secret funds. However, I have already seen much more than I would like. So the Good News sent by the Lord was usurped by a handful of pagans who used it to rule the world? How could the Lord tolerate this? Or is it a lie? I'm confused, I don't know what to think.

April 4, 1901 Well, now access to secret documents is completely closed for me. I directly asked the senior librarian about the reasons. “You are not strong enough in spirit, my son,” he said, “strengthen your faith, and the treasures of our library will again open before you. Remember, everything you see here must be approached with pure, deep, unadulterated faith.” Yes, but then it turns out that we are storing a bunch of falsified documents, a heap of lies and slander!

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June 11, 1901 No, after all, these are not fakes or lies. I have a tenacious memory, and besides (may God forgive me!) I made a lot of extracts from documents. I carefully, meticulously checked them and did not find a single error, not a single inaccuracy that would accompany a fake. And they are not stored as cheap and malicious slander, but carefully and with love. I'm afraid I'll never be the same person again. pure soul. May the Lord forgive me!

October 25, 1901 I wrote a request to be granted a long leave to my homeland. My health had deteriorated, and besides, I wrote, I needed to cleanse my soul alone. No response has been received yet.

November 17, 1901 The petition was accepted not without hesitation, but, as it seemed to me, not without relief. In three months I will be able to go home. During this time, I should send copies of the documents I found to Augusburg in various ways. This, of course, is disgusting to the Lord... but isn’t hiding them from people disgusting? The senior librarian repeated to me many times that I should not tell anyone about the secrets that I saw in the library. I solemnly swore. Lord, do not let me become an oathbreaker!

January 12, 1902 Robbers visited my apartment. They took all the money and papers. Fortunately, I had already secretly sent everything more or less valuable to Germany. The Holy See generously compensated me for the cost of the lost valuables. A very strange theft...

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February 18, 1902 Finally, I’m going home! My bosses saw me off and half-heartedly wished me a speedy return. It's unlikely that this will ever happen...
As we see from these quotes, the Vatican priests have something to hide from those not initiated into the secrets...

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Is the center for falsifying history located in the Vatican?

This conclusion suggests itself after analyzing many facts about the falsification of our history. It was the Jesuit monks, fulfilling the mission entrusted to them by the Vatican, who rewrote the history of China and invented history." Mongol Empire"It was Catholic German historians who rewrote Russian history, falsifying the myth of the savagery and uncivilization of the Russian people. Another Catholics - Polish historians - invented the myth of the “Tatar-Mongol yoke” in Rus'. But that’s not all.

After all, many ancient written sources telling about real history humanity, were either destroyed or transported to the vast Vatican library, the repositories of which are several floors deep (at least five) and extend up to 3 kilometers. Can you imagine how many ancient artifacts, how many written evidence from the libraries of Ashurbanipal, Pergamum, Alexandria, etc. are stored there?

But it is almost impossible for a mere mortal, and even famous scientists, if they are not members of the priestly lodges of the Vatican, to gain access to these ancient sources. Some of the sources that do not threaten the plans of the falsifiers are stored in rooms that are free for access. But this is only the appearance of free access, since the overwhelming majority of this unique archive antiquity remains hidden from the eyes of ordinary people.

And this is no coincidence. The Vatican is very sensitive to everything that contradicts biblical texts and especially the Old Testament. And it was precisely to conceal these contradictions that the operation to falsify human history was organized over entire centuries. A typical example of such activity is the story associated with the archive of the ancient Syrian king Zimlirim, consisting of several tens of thousands of clay tablets.

The French colonial authorities removed this archive from Syria even before the outbreak of the Second World War. And initially most of it ended up in the storerooms of the Louvre. But the most interesting thing began when French scientists began to translate these ancient texts.

Here is what the Russian scientist A. Sklyarov says about this: “All the work was supervised by the director of the Louvre. When the translations of these texts began, descriptions of cities and mentions of names that were mentioned in the Old Testament first appeared. These facts began to be promoted that we had found confirmation that Old Testament tells the truth.

And then that part of the translations came up in which the Old Testament was practically crossed out. A completely different story was told. As a result, the Vatican was forced to go into open confrontation and take away part of the archive, i.e. Now the archive is “torn apart” between the Louvre and the Vatican. And the author of the translations renounced them, saying that he was mistaken and this information quickly “died out.” And now, if translations continue, it is very sluggish, i.e. There is a concealment of some information that undermines the foundations of monotheistic religions. There is a story written there about the times of other gods."

As we see, in the story of the archive of the ancient Syrian king Zimlirim, it was the Vatican that showed extreme activity both in hiding information and in confiscating artifacts, which are now stored in the same famous Vatican library. It is also surprising that there is such intolerance towards information that contradicts the Old Testament. It turns out that for the Vatican, as for the Jews, it is the Old Testament that is the fundamental dogma of the religion.

It is no coincidence that G. Sidorov has repeatedly noted that it was in the Vatican that a clan of dark priests, controlled by a non-humanoid mind, settled, who created all these monotheistic religions to counteract the bright Vedic worldview. This also explains why all representatives of the churches of monotheistic religions so diligently destroyed people of the Vedic worldview, organizing the Inquisition and religious wars V Western Europe and forced baptism in Rus', which grew into civil war, for the purpose of concealing which it was invented" Tatar-Mongolian invasion" of Rus'.

It was to this “invasion” that the falsifiers of history attributed the millions of ancient Rus killed during the forced baptism. And in subsequent centuries, the secular and ecclesiastical authorities of Russia, which came under the influence of the Vatican, mercilessly destroyed the Old Believers and Old Believers, sparing neither women nor children and inventing that it was they who locked themselves in churches and burned themselves. By the way, such inventions do not remind you of anything in the light of the events that took place in last years in Ukraine? And if it reminds, then this should lead to very definite conclusions.

It is the clan of dark priests of Amun-Set-Yahweh-Jehovah-Satan that needs to organize bloody sacrifices to this dark egregor in all parts of the Earth. But these dark priests themselves are just pawns in someone else’s game.

Take a close look at this symbol located on the territory of the Vatican and it will immediately become clear to you who exactly this “all-seeing eye” of the real owners of the Vatican belongs to. And if you can't guess, then look at this emblem inside the Vatican.

The financial center is located in the City of London, and the administrative and military center is in the American District of Columbia (Washington). Now draw a conclusion about who all those who support the falsified version of history work for and serve.

That's all for today. Thank you for attention.

August will be hot in all respects, but it wouldn’t hurt for all of us to survive September and October...

Be Good.

Whatever you say, the Catholic clergy has something to “remember” for kind words"Writer Dan Brown. Well, when else, if not after the release of his famous novels, did everyone, young and old, awaken an interest in secrets, riddles, conspiracies, hoaxes, lost symbols, secrets and codes associated with the Vatican?

And it is not at all surprising that the world community rushed to the largest repository of secrets in the world - the Vatican Secret Archive - to look for answers to all curious questions!

Its history, by the way, dates back to 1610, that is, more than 400 years. It is known that Pope Paul V separated it from the Vatican Library, and from that time on the archive became “secret” and limited to visitors.

You won’t believe it, but the most important historical documents from the Middle Ages to the present day are reliably preserved on shelves, the total length of which exceeds 85 km. Well, the most interesting thing is that at 40 km of them there is the largest collection of occult literature in the world!

The Vatican Secret Archive is periodically opened, as far as possible, and gradually declassified. This was done for the first time in 1881, and the last time was in 2006. Did Brown’s writings really drive the holy fathers to despair and they had no other chance but to meet them halfway?

But such discord only benefits us, because right now we can see with our own eyes what, reading on the pages of history books, only our imagination could guess...

Archive keeper Sergio Pagano assures that not a single country has escaped the attention of the Vatican, and on the shelves of the largest repository of secrets rests a documentary history “from Old Europe and Asia and from the discovery of America to the Second World War.”

Could you imagine that someday you will see a page from the interrogation protocol Galileo Galilei with his own signature? And this document has been preserved since 1638!

Shiny and tragic fate the most famous queen of France, Marie Antoinette, will always impress history buffs and terrify her descendants. Carefree childhood in the family of his father, the Emperor of Austria, marriage at the age of 15 with the heir of Louis XV, accession to the French throne at 19, stormy youth among the luxury of Versailles and... a terrible death on the guillotine. These historical facts will no longer seem just bookish to you - here is Marie Antoinette’s suicide note, written before her execution, 1793.

Do you want to know what the Inquisition's verdict looked like on paper? Well, here is a written statement of guilt against the astronomer Giordano Bruno in 1660.

One of the most curious documents is a parchment scroll sealed with eighty seals! You won’t believe it, but that’s exactly how much “desperation and impatience” he put into his letter to Pope Clement VII English king Henry VIII, when he asked to divorce him from Catherine of Aragon, for a speedy wedding with Anne Boleyn. By the way, in the letter, Henry VIII even hinted that in case of an unsatisfactory answer, he was ready to take “extreme measures”...

Brace yourself—this 60-meter-long parchment scroll contains 321 testimonies and accounts of the Templar trial, 1311.

Never imagined what a chapter bull could look like Catholic Church? Well, then take a look at the golden bull of Pope Clement VII on the occasion of the coronation of Charles V.

The curator of the archive did not downplay the importance of the Papal See, mentioning that not a single country was left unattended... By the way, on the shelves you can find a letter addressed to the Vatican from the leader of the Canadian Ojibwa tribe in 1887 with gratitude for the missionary sent. Well, on this purple parchment, embossed in gold, all the gifts of the Holy Roman Emperor Otto I to the church in 950 are listed.

Even the Caliph of Morocco, Abu Hafsa Umar al-Murtada, counted on the support of Pope Innocent IV when he wrote to him asking for the appointment of a new bishop in 1250!

Now you can safely say that you have seen the handwriting of Mary Stuart - here is a fragment of a letter from the French queen to Pope Sixtus V in 1585!

And another amazing manuscript - a Letter to Pope Innocent X, written on silk by the Chinese princess herself!

Are all the fateful moments of our history collected in one place? Look - this is a fragment of parchment with the text of the written abdication of the throne of the Swedish king Christian!

Each document from the 35 thousand volumes of the Vatican’s secret archive is stamped “Archivio Segreto Vaticano”, which means shhh and no one will know about what they saw!

Cursed by the entire Catholic clergy, Dan Brown reluctantly touched upon the weak point of the Vatican in his works. No, not the mythical story of Christ’s marriage to the supposedly lascivious Magdalena. Any historian or scholar will easily refute his fantasies. In reality, everything is much worse than any literary delights.

The mood in the Vatican Swiss Guard is bad. And paper scribblers have nothing to do with it. Exemplary guardsmen complain about the terrible drill - “military and Catholic,” as one of them put it. Phenomena very similar to our “hazing” are flourishing in the barracks. Formally, lights out here are at 24 hours. But at this time, the guardsmen are just beginning to have a fun life. You can buy cheaper booze on the Vatican grounds at the Annona duty-free supermarket, and as for love...

Since women are strictly prohibited from entering the barracks, and the administrators of nearby hotels have been instructed not to allow Swiss Guards into their rooms, most often they make love with their comrades.

You can even judge the discipline of the “faithful army” by this fact: there were cases when empty bottles flew from the windows of the barracks onto the street. And after one football match, the guards staged a real street brawl with law enforcement officers.

Doubts about the value of the papal guard began almost 500 years ago. Florentine thinker Niccolo Machiavelli warned that the protection of the state cannot be trusted to mercenaries. “The power that rests on a mercenary army will never be strong or durable... Mercenaries are ambitious, dissolute, prone to discord, quarrelsome with friends and cowardly with the enemy, treacherous and wicked... In times of peace, they will ruin you no worse than in the military – the enemy.”

Nevertheless, in the first years after its founding, the Swiss Guard understood the task well. On May 6, 1527, 147 guardsmen died heroically - they saved Pope Clement VII from the horde of marauders of the German Emperor Charles V. Since then, this day has been considered the holiday of the Vatican Swiss Guard.

Today, the brave Swiss guard the pope's residence from annoying tourists and make sure that believers bare their heads in St. Peter's Basilica. Thus, the American pop star Michael Jackson was expelled from the temple because he did not want to take off his famous felt hat.

Of course, soldiers are also prepared for more serious incidents. Once a year they hold shooting competitions at the Vatican shooting range. Their magnificent costumes as halberdiers are deceptive - in fact, the costumed guards are excellent at not only firearms, but also martial arts. Despite this, it is absolutely clear that nothing remains of the former splendor and heroic traditions of the world's oldest army, consisting of 70 soldiers, 25 non-commissioned officers, 4 officers and 2 drummers.

Previously, a Swiss Catholic considered it his greatest honor to offer his life to the service of the Pontiff. But service in the Vatican has gradually become so unattractive that the Guard has difficulty filling its staff.

Back in the 1980s, papal recruiters had no problems. At the same time, nothing special is required from the Swiss, it is only necessary that he “love the Holy Father, as we all love God,” that he has a reference from the local bishop, that his height is not lower than 174 cm and that he does not have any beard.

In the first year of service, an ordinary guardsman, in addition to his salary, is provided with free housing, uniforms and food. After 20 years of service, they are entitled to a pension in the amount of their final salary.

Murders on the territory of the church state rarely occurred. After the secretary of Pope Pius IX, Minister Pellegrino Rossi, was killed by an anti-clerical terrorist, there were no assassination attempts here for almost 150 years. The “first call” for halberdiers in the last century sounded in 1958. Then guardsman Adolfo Rucker tried to kill his commander Robert Nunlist, shooting him in the head and chest, and then tried to commit suicide. Failed. Both survived. They tried to hush up the case, explaining the attempt by saying that Rucker was offended that he was expelled from the guard.

This may be true, but it is possible that the criminal incident is one of the events about which one can say: there are devils in still waters.

In May 1998, five hours after taking the oath of office as commander of the Swiss Guards, Colonel Alois Esterman was shot dead. The whole world learned his name on May 13, 1981, when he turned 26 years old. During the assassination attempt on the pope, he shielded the pontiff with his body from the bullets of the Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca.

The newly appointed head of the world's smallest and most photographed military unit was killed along with his wife. Suspicion fell on his deputy, Cedric Tornay, who then committed suicide. Cedric Tornay was about to say goodbye to his service. In civilian life in Switzerland, a well-paid job awaited him. But the authorities were slow to sign his service recommendations as a violator of army discipline.

The secrets of the Vatican often remain unsolved, although many circumstances are simply alarming. Pope John Paul I died on September 29, 1978. The official diagnosis was a heart attack. However, there are still persistent rumors that he was simply poisoned by the Vatican entourage. The head of the Vatican Bank, Pavel Marcinkus, did dirty deals with the president of the P-2 Masonic lodge, Licio Gelli, and the head of Banco Ambrosiano, Roberto Calvi, who was directly connected with the Italian mafia.

In 1983, the daughter of Vatican employee Emmanuela Orlandi disappeared without a trace. What happened to her is still unclear. One Vatican saleswoman “quite by accident” fell out of a window under some downright mystical circumstances, and cocaine was found on the gatekeeper. But all these secrets, shrouded in darkness, literally pale in comparison with the colorful story of Enrico Sini Luzzi, who was killed in January 1998.

A member of the oldest noble family in Italy, he belonged to the inner circle of John Paul II, working in the papal reception room. His duty was to escort guests to the Vatican as "his Eminence's nobleman." No one suspected that the papal chamberlain, Knight of the Order of Malta, led a double life. Only after his death did it become known about the 66-year-old saint’s love for boys.

The servants found the aristocrat in his palace wearing silk lingerie and a shawl tied around his neck. He died from a blow to the head with a candlestick.

Alexander Zotov