Vatican has a hit with $8500 book on Knights Templar
Sheiks, libraries and collectors around the world have ordered the Vatican's new €5,900 limited edition documentation of the heresy trial of the Knights Templar, officials said Thursday.
The leather-bound volume, which includes high-quality reprints of the original documents as well as clerical seals, is noteworthy because it contains a long ignored parchment showing that Pope Clement V initially absolved the medieval order of heresy.
The publishing house Scrinium, which prints documents from the Vatican's Secret Archives, is issuing 799 editions of the volume - and plans in the coming days to present one to Pope Benedict XVI, officials said at a presentation inside Vatican City.
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The leather-bound volume, which includes high-quality reprints of the original documents as well as clerical seals, is noteworthy because it contains a long ignored parchment showing that Pope Clement V initially absolved the medieval order of heresy.
The publishing house Scrinium, which prints documents from the Vatican's Secret Archives, is issuing 799 editions of the volume - and plans in the coming days to present one to Pope Benedict XVI, officials said at a presentation inside Vatican City.