10: The Heresy Transcripts In 1307, the Knights Templar were arrested
and tortured on charges of heresy and being immoral.
This was one of the biggest controversies of the medieval world and has been debated
for centuries.
The one responsible for the torturing of the Templar leaders was the king of France himself,
King Philip IV.
The exact happenings of the trials of the Knights Templar have been kept hidden in secret
inside the Vatican Secret Archive, and they detail exactly what happened to the Knights
Templar and the truth behind their destruction.
But while these transcripts have remained secret for hundreds of years, the Vatican
recently released the transcripts of the heresy trials of the Knights Templar in limited edition
volumes.
The Vatican produced 800 copies of the collection in leather-bound documents.
But don't worry, you'll never get your hands on one.
They were bought up almost immediately by individual collectors, libraries, cultural
organizations, and internationally famous people, according to the president of the
publishing house that prints documents for the Vatican.
Why do you think that is?
It’s all quite suspicious.
But of course, it’s easy to see why the documents would have been hidden from the
public for so long.
Historians all agree that by the early 1300s, the Knights Templar had become too rich and
too powerful.
The only way to put a stop to the secretive order was to throw allegations of corruption
at them.
And the only way for King Philip to settle his debts with the order was to simply quash
them under these made-up allegations!
9: The First Air Machine Blueprints The blueprints for the world’s first air
machine are believed to be hidden inside of the Vatican.
It seems awfully strange that the designs would be hidden for so long, but they were
kept secret for centuries!
The blueprints were created by a Brazilian-born inventor named Bartolomeu Lourenco de Gusmao
in the 18th century.
The inventor showed off the idea for his miraculous flying device to the king of Portugal in August
of 1709.
He used a small paper balloon and a candle to demonstrate his idea for a hot air balloon.
And it worked.
He had plans to craft a massive machine he called the Passarola, which means “bird”
in English.
The machine would be filled with tubes and would look just like a giant bird, and it
would use fire to fly across the world.
Unfortunately, this was the 18th century.
People in Portugal called the inventor a wizard.
He became utterly terrified of the Spanish Inquisition and burned all of his documents,
manuscripts, and ideas, then had to disguise himself and flee the country, where he died
shortly later in 1724 without ever building his machine.
But even after the inventor’s death, the ideas behind his machine lived on.
Some copies of his blueprints survived and were preserved and are believed to still be
kept inside the Vatican itself.
In fact, his flying machine was the inspiration for the first hot-air balloon that took flight
74 years later in 1783.
8: Three Secrets of Fatima The Three Secrets of Fatima is a series of
apocalyptic visions that were allegedly given to three Portuguese shepherds named Lucia
Santos, Jacinta Marto, and Francisco Marto back in 1917.
These three young children claimed that they were visited by the Virgin Mary herself.
The apparition has since become known as Our Lady of Fatima.
According to the children, the Virgin Mary bestowed upon them three secrets.
But the secrets were not revealed until much later in 1941 at the request of the Bishop
of Leiria.
The third secret was revealed in 1943.
Lucia Santos wrote the third prophecy in a letter that was to be sealed and not read
until 1960.
It would not be until the year 2000 that Pope John Paul II released the secret to the world.
Up until then, all three secrets were allegedly kept inside of the Vatican, the three handwritten
prophecies penned by Lucia Santos herself.
Yet even after the third secret was revealed to the public, there were many who said the
Pope was keeping parts of the secret hidden, and there have been allegations that the truth
of what Lucia Santos wrote on the notes is still heavily guarded by the Vatican.
By now, you’re probably wondering what the secrets were.
The first secret was a vision of Hell.
The second secret was a prediction that the First World War would end and that another
war would commence soon after.
The third and most secretive of all the secrets pertained to the widespread persecution of
Christians in the 20th century.
However, there is still controversy to this day over what was truly written by Lucia Santos
regarding the third secret.
7: The Largest Collection of Adult Videos There have been rumors for a long time that
the Vatican houses the largest collection of adult content in the entire world!
This rumor actually dates back hundreds of years.
Back in the Renaissance, people said that the Vatican held inappropriate drawings and
vulgar relics.
Then in the modern age, the rumor persisted, with people saying that the largest collection
of adult artifacts, films, pictures, and other paraphernalia is housed somewhere inside of
a secret room in the Vatican.
That sounds pretty bizarre, and not likely true.
What’s the story?
Evidently, all experts on the subject deny these claims to the end.
Even Snopes fact-checked the allegations and declared the rumor 100% false.
The Vatican museums hold some suggestive content, sure, but it all has historical value.
There are over 1.5 million scholarly books and over 150,000 precious manuscripts in the
Vatican – but probably not any explicit material.
It’s not clear where exactly the rumor came from or why people believe in it, but the
rumors don’t hold any merit.
Even when Father Leonard Boyle retired from being the chief librarian of the Vatican Library
in 1998, he denounced the rumor, claiming to have never discovered any proof of such
blasphemous content inside the Vatican!
6: The Chinese Scroll One of the strangest secrets hidden inside
the Vatican is an old Chinese scroll from 1650.
There are almost no documents from Asia inside the Vatican’s immense archives.
But this one is incredibly strange.
The letter was written on silk by the Chinese Empress Dowager Wang, who had adopted the
Christian name of Helena.
She was not just one of the only Chinese empresses, but also one of the only Catholic rulers of
China.
She had originally been converted to Catholicism by Jesuit priests.
The letter she wrote was sent to Pope Innocent X and delivered inside of a bamboo tube, complete
with the inscription of a black dragon.
Apparently, the empress had been forced to flee her home by the ruthless Qing Dynasty
and had been appealing to the Pope for some kind of assistance.
Alas, the Pope died before he could ever grant the empress an audience.
If she had been given more attention, it’s interesting to think about what kind of relationship
the Vatican could have made with China, and how different the world could look right now.
5: The Damnation of Galileo Galileo is still believed to be the father
of modern science.
And yet over 350 years ago, the Roman Catholic Church held a trial for Galileo because they
basically thought he was an evil magician.
Galileo was the first man who spoke out that the Earth is in fact round, it is not flat,
the world does not move from east to west, and that it is not the center of the universe.
Galileo figured out that the Earth orbits the sun.
But this was in direct conflict with the Holy and Divine Scriptures, and it landed Galileo
in hot water.
In 1633 he was placed under investigation by Pope Urban VIII on suspected heresy.
Galileo Galilei was forced to recant his claims that the Earth revolves around the Sun under
the express threat of torture.
It was a huge step backward for the progression of science and society.
For 350 years, the trial transcripts were kept secreted inside of the Vatican.
It wasn’t until just recently that steps were taken by the Roman Catholic Church to
publish all documents in the secret archives relating to the physicist’s unfortunate
condemnation.
It took the church nearly 4 centuries to basically admit that they were wrong and Galileo wasn’t
really evil after all.
However, the church didn’t do this for fun.
They revealed the transcripts as part of a plot to show the world that the things hidden
inside their archives aren’t secret or suspicious.
Though to be honest, the whole thing feels kind of weird, like there are more secret
documents they aren’t showing us.
4: The Time Travel Machine Believe it or not, some people claim there
is a time machine hidden inside the Vatican, known as the Chronovisor.
A man named Father Pellegrino Ernetti apparently helped to create the Chronovisor, which he
then used to observe with his own eyes the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Of course, this is a pretty far-out claim.
There has never been any proof anywhere in the world that any kind of time travel device
exists.
And yet the Chronovisor is supposed to give users the ability to see through the ages.
The existence of this machine has never been proven, though the Vatican priest named Father
Francois Brune claimed in a 2002 book that he saw it for himself.
The machine was apparently built in the 1960s with help from a team of scientists, including
the former German scientist Warner von Braun.
Using this machine, the scientists were apparently able to see things that happened in the past,
and this allowed select members of the church to look upon the real events of the Bible.
The Chronovisor allegedly works like a television, allowing people to tune in to a specific time
and place.
But of course, every mainstream scientist in the world has labeled the Chronovisor as
totally fake and pretty much all the claims put forth by the former Vatican priests have
been denounced.
What do you think?
Is time travel possible?
Is a Chronovisor something that we could have, even someday in the future?
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3: Magic Blood One of the weirder things hidden inside of
the Vatican is a vial of dried blood believed to belong to St. Januarius.
The vile contains the dried blood of the patron saint of Naples, and in 2015 at a cathedral
in Naples, the Pope kissed the vial filled with the dried blood and it miraculously liquefied.
This miraculous event was apparently a sign that St. Januarius loved the Pope.
The act was done in front of thousands of people inside the cathedral, and the Pope
claimed that the blood only partly liquefied, meaning that the Saint probably only loved
them halfway and they all needed to work harder so that the saint could love them more.
And yes, this is a real thing that happened and that people believe.
The vial of blood is one of the most precious relics in the city.
The saint had apparently averted a massive eruption from Mount Vesuvius through prayer
in the fourth century.
There’s no scientific evidence to suggest that a vial of blood can hold any magical
properties or in any way influence literally anything – but it’s still a pretty big
deal in the Catholic faith.
2: The Pope and the Holocaust The Vatican and the Nazis have a pretty controversial
history.
During World War Two, Pope Pius XII was leading the Catholic Church.
Throughout the war, he remained completely silent while millions of Jews were being killed
during the Holocaust.
The refusal to condemn Germany during the war represents a shameful moral failing of
the Catholic Church.
Some have claimed that the Pope stayed out of the affairs of the Nazis because if Hitler
had won the war, he would have wanted to become Hitler’s pope and save the church.
Some have gone so far as to claim that Pope Pius XII was actually Hitler’s pawn!
Well, all of the Pope's activities during wartime were documented, and they have been
housed inside the Vatican Secret Archives ever since World War Two.
Until just recently, these documents were forbidden to be viewed by anyone.
However, in an attempt to save face, the Vatican decided to release some of the files for historians
to examine.
This proved to be an atrocious idea.
According to the Smithsonian Magazine, the revealed documents proved that the Pope learned
about Jews being murdered back in the fall of 1942.
The documents also showed that church advisers dismissed the reports and called them exaggerated.
Representatives of the church then lied to the United States government and said that
the Vatican was unable to confirm whether the Nazis were actually participating in these
crimes.
Basically, they covered it up.
And sadly, this doesn't make the church look very good.
1: Secret Tunnels The Vatican may be the smallest country in
the entire world with a population of only 1000 people and only 110 acres (0.44 sq km),
but there are more secrets hidden within Vatican City than almost anywhere else on Earth.
One of the biggest secrets is actually hidden in plain sight.
It's a secret tunnel named the Passetto di Borgo, and it has been used for hundreds of
years as an escape passageway by Popes facing imminent danger.
This secret tunnel runs about 2600 feet (800m) along the old walls of the city and links
Vatican Palace with Castel Sant’Angelo.
It was completed in the late 1400s and used for the first time just two years after by
Pope Alexander VI when King Charles VIII of France invaded Vatican City.
The most recent time that the secret tunnel was used was during the Sack of Rome on May
6, 1527.
Almost all of the Swiss Guard – who actually still protect Vatican City to this day – were
slaughtered on the steps of Saint Peter's Basilica, though they held off the invading
force just long enough for Pope Clement VII to escape using the secret tunnel.
Considering there is only one secret tunnel we know about, who knows how many other secret
tunnels are beneath Vatican City and where they might lead!
What kind of relics do you think are hidden in the bottom of the Vatican?
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