re: Vatican Archives. What lost artifacts are in there?

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Rogan has talked about this recently. supposedly in a heavily guarded church in Ethiopia and the chosen caretakers all get cataracts

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It’s not, British guy saw it during WWII and wrote and spoke about it.

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The likely last non-Ethiopian person who saw the Ark of Aksum was the most important Ethiopiologist of the 20th century, Edward Ullendorff (1920-2011). A Jew from Zürich, Ullendorff did his Semitic and Ethiopic studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where he met and married his Jewish neighbor, Dina; the Second World War cut his studies short and he joined the British army, serving in Ethiopia, of course. There, Ullendorff became a close friend of Haile Selassie, the 225th monarch descended from Menelik, son of Solomon (see above) whose autobiography he would later translate. After the war he helped to establish the Ethiopian school system, which has been the best in the Third World and one of the best in the world. Unfortunately, the system covered only three cities. In 1941, while a British officer, Ullendorff had a rare chance to examine the Ark kept in Aksum; in an interview with the LA Times from 1992, he said flatly: “I’ve seen it. There was no problem getting access when I saw it in 1941 … You need to be able to speak their language, classical Ge’ez … they have a wooden box, but it’s empty. Middle- to late-medieval construction, when these were fabricated ad hoc.”

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Tablet Magazine

Probably lots of treasures the Nazis captured since the Vatican accepted loot as payments for assistance for the Nazis to escape Europe.

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How would he manage to accomplish this seeing as how the old pope is almost always dead before a new one is chosen?

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That’s at least 2 people in this thread so far who don’t have any concept of a sealed envelope.

Scholars have access to the archives. None of the sensationalistic stuff is in there, but there are a bunch of really old documents. Jimmy Akin did a mysterious world episode on this:

Jimmy Akin youtube

The archives contain 53 miles of shelving.

Vatican archives history

I just went down a wormhole reading about The excommunication of Martin Luther in 1521 and A plea from Mary, Queen of Scots, before her execution in 1587.

Apparently those are some of the notable documents in the archives.

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That’s not a shot at the Catholic Church, it’s just that’s what God set the rules as.

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Also, anyone else who touches it, will die.

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Wait. You and others actually believe this?

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It is highly believed that one piece of information is how & when the world will end.

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People are so fricking gullible lol

for what purpose would the Church keep these artifacts from the rest of the world?

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No way the vatican would allow that to remain there with the possibility of jihadi's coming

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Jihad in Ethiopia???… wrong country