Posted on 01/02/2010 9:42:37 AM PST by Steelfish
Vatican Reveals Secret Archives
A 13th-century letter from Genghis Khans grandson demanding homage from the pope is among a collection of documents from the Vaticans Secret Archives that has been published for the first time.
By Nick Squires in Rome 01 Jan 2010
In a letter dated 1246 from Grand Khan Guyuk, pictured, to Pope Innocent IV, Genghis Khan's grandson demands that the Pontiff travel to central Asia in person
The Holy Sees archives contain scrolls, parchments and leather-bound volumes with correspondence dating back more than 1,000 years. High-quality reproductions of 105 documents, 19 of which have never been seen before in public, have now been published in a book. The Vatican Secret Archives features a papal letter to Hitler, an entreaty to Rome written on birch bark by a tribe of North American Indians, and a plea from Mary Queen of Scots.
The book documents the Roman Catholic Churchs often hostile dealings with the world of science and the arts, including documents from the heresy trial against Galileo and correspondence exchanged with Erasmus, Voltaire and Mozart. It also reveals the Churchs relations with princes and potentates in countries far beyond its dominion.
In a letter dated 1246 from Grand Khan Guyuk to Pope Innocent IV, Genghis Khans grandson demands that the pontiff travel to central Asia in person with all of his kings in tow to pay service and homage to us as an act of submission, threatening that otherwise you shall be our enemy.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Yes, I stand corrected.
No bias here. /sarc
Thanks.
Did Marco Polo Go To China?
by Frances Wood
Hardcover
PaperbackThe City of Light:
The Hidden Journal of the Man
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by Jacob D'Ancona
tr by David SelbourneLegends of the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng
by Xin Xu
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illus by Ting Cheng
reviewedChristians in China: A.D. 600 to 2000
by Father Jean Charbonnier,
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Wow! Perdogg, you magnificent, well, you know...
Ghengis Khan asked Marco Polo’s uncle to bring back Christian scholars to teach the mongol people.
When Uncle Polo returned from his first trip he went to the Vatican and explained a vast empire of heathens wanted Christian education. The Vatican responded by providing three fat friars who all bailed out on the Polo expedition in Turkey and Syria.
Ponder world history had their been a successful conversion of the Mongols to Christianity.
Marco Polo never got to China...he probably made it Constantinople where he learned all he needed about the Chinese...from those who had been trading with them for a thousand years already: the Byzantines.
an article (citation) for your reference:
http://www.jstor.org/pss/3107293
Sunken civ - if you need the whole article I can get it for you.
Sure, that would be great, send it, and thank you eleni.
Re your headline: I think you’re confusing Guyak with Barack.
As opposed to their other offers, where they... uh...
Don't tell Zero. He might go looking for a descendant he can bow to.
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