Right.
I forget the route the materials purportedly took to reach the Vatican.
It was plausible. I just have never heard of any confirmation.
And I was certainly rusty on the timeline.
Certainly they did not go directly to a non-existent organization.
IIRC, the Roman government held them for a long time.
Then when Rome was somehow threatened, the materials were transferred to the Vatican . . . I think that’s how the story goes.
Oh.
Whatever your sources on this "story," dear brother, they seem not to have regarded the historical timeline very closely.
That Julius Caesar burned the Great Library of Alexandria in 48 B.C. has been documented by contemporary observers. Some of these observers say that Caesar didn't mean to burn the library, this was just an unanticipated, unfortunate result of his trying to burn the Alexandrian Fleet at their moorings, and then the wind just blew the wrong way....
The Library was the treasure of Greco-Roman culture, appreciated as such in Caesar's time, at Rome. Its loss was devastating to that culture: For the fire wiped out the original sources of some of the greatest achievements of human thought produced by that culture. Which in so many ways laid down the original foundations of rational thought, effective ever since.
It was a grievous loss, IMHO FWIW.
The point is, there's no way the Vatican could have benefited from it....