22-02-2021, 06:17 AM
It is not yet clear, but what must have played a key role was, that the prospective buyer, the prefect of the Vatican library, was himself a Jesuit: Franz Ehrle S.J.
Already in 1892/3 he warned the Jesuits that their archives, preserved in the German college in Rome, were in danger of confiscation. These were then secretly, and little by little, moved out to a castle in Holland.
Already in 1892/3 he warned the Jesuits that their archives, preserved in the German college in Rome, were in danger of confiscation. These were then secretly, and little by little, moved out to a castle in Holland.