Archive Notes
Latin:
CLEMENS MISERATIONE DIVINA
EPISCOPUS VELITERNUS
S.R.E. CARD. MICARA
SS.MI D.NI N.RI PAPAE VICARIUS GENERALIS
ROMANAE CURIAE EIUSQUE DISTRICTUS IUDEX ORDINARIUS ETC.
Universis et singulis praesentes litteras inspecturis fidem facimus ac testamur, quod Nos ad maiorem Omnipotentis Dei gloriam suorumque Sanctorum venerationem recognovimus sacras particulas ex Altari Signeo S. Petri Apost.
quas ex authenticis locis extractas reverenter collocavimus in theca arg. Deaur rot formae, crystallo munita, bene clausa et funiculo serico coloris rubri colligata, ac sigillo nostro signata, easque tradidimus cum facultate apud se retinendi, extra Urbem transmittendi et publicae fidelium venerationi exponendi. Monemus autem fideles in quorum manus hae sacrae reliquiae nunc vel in posterum venturae sunt, nullo modo licere eas vendere, neque cum iis rebus quae mercimonii speciem praeseferant, commutare.
In quorum fidem has litteras testimoniales a Nobis seu ab Exc.mo Vicesgerente subscriptas nostroque sigillo firmatas per infrascriptum Sacararum Reliquiarum Custodem expediri mandavimus.
Romae, ex Aedibus nostris die XX mensis Junii Anni MCMLIX.
+ L. Hecta Abbot. V.
English:
CLEMENS BY DIVINE MERCY
BISHOP OF VELITERNUS
S.R.E. CARDINAL OF MICARA
OF THE MOST HOLY LORD POPE GENERAL VICAR
ROMAN CURIA AND HIS DISTRICT ORINARY JUDGE ETC.
To all and each who will inspect the present letters, we provide in good faith and testify that, for the greater glory of Almighty God and the veneration of His Saints, we have recognized the small part
from the Wooden Altar of St. Peter the Apostle.
were reverently taken from authentic places and placed in a silver case, securely closed and tied with a red silk cord, and sealed with our seal. We have granted them for the faithful to keep, and to be sent outside the city for public veneration by the faithful. We admonish, however, the faithful into whose hands these sacred relics may come now or in the future, that it is by no means permitted to sell them, nor to exchange them for goods of a commercial nature.
In witness of this, we have signed these testimonial letters, either by ourselves or by the Most Excellent Vicegerent, and affixed our seal. We ordered that they be expedited by the undersigned Sacred Custodian of Relics.
Given in Rome, at our headquarters, on the 20th of June, in the year 1959.
+ L. Hecta Abbott. V.
