Archive Notes
Latin:
UNIVERSIS et singulis praesentis 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. I. C. Cruci affixus fuit; eumdemque adeo affabre elaboratum esse, ut simillimus videatur.
Dat. Romae in nostro Monasterio S. Crucis Hierosolymitanae.
Die 15 Mense Maii, Anno 1944.
D. Edmundus Bernardini
ABBAS
Scuola Tip. Pio X - Via Etruschi, 7-9
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 15th day of May, in the year 1947.
D. Edmundus Bernardini
ABBOT
