Chinon Parchment - Significance

Significance

In September, 2001, Barbara Frale, MA, found a copy of the parchment in the Vatican Secret Archives. Frale published her discoveries in the Journal of Medieval History and has written a book on the subject, Il papato e il processo ai templari.

In 2007, The Vatican published the Chinon Parchment as part of a limited edition of 799 copies of Processus Contra Templarios after centuries of obscurity, with an eight-hundredth copy being presented to Pope Benedict XVI.

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