Archive Notes
Latin:
Universis et singulis praesentes literas inspecturis fidem facimus atque attestamur, hunc Clavum ferreum serica vitta rubri coloris parvo nostro sigillo munita colligatum, admotum fuisse sacro Clavo qui apud Nos Cistercienses adservatur in Sacello interiori sacrarum Reliquiarum Basilicae urbanae S. Crucis ab Hierusalem, quique unus ex illis est, quibus D. N. J. C. Cruci affixus fuit; eundemque adeo affabre elaboratum esse, ut simillimus videatur.
Dat. Romae in nostro Monasterio S. Crucis Hierosolymitanae
Die 10 Aug, Anno 1896.
D. NIVARDUS FIORUCCI
PRIOR
Roma - Tip. Fratelli Pallotta, Via del Nazareno 14
English:
To all who inspect the present letters, we affirm and testify that this iron Nail, tied with a red silk ribbon secured by our small seal, has been closely associated with the Holy Nail preserved by us, the Cistercians, in the inner Chapel of the Sacred Relics of the urban Basilica of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem, and is one of those Nails by which Our Lord Jesus Christ was affixed to the Cross; and that it has been so skillfully crafted as to appear most similar.
Given at Rome, in our Monastery of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem,
on the 10th day of August, in the year 1896.
D. Nivardus Fiorucci
Prior
