London, Dec 28 (ANI): Mary Queen of Scots had sent a letter to Sixtus V, in which she asked for forgiveness for her sins and urged him to save her from the executioner's sword, according to a document kept in Vatican's secret archives.
While the letter addressed to Sixtus V failed to save Mary, Queen of Scots' life, the document itself has survived buried in the bowels of the Vatican's secret archives for more than 400 years.
It is among 100 of the most historically significant items of confidential correspondence due to go on public display for the first time in a special exhibition in Rome, the Daily Mail reported.
Mary wrote the missive from her prison cell at Fotheringhay Castle in Northamptonshire just three months before she was executed following her long confinement.
The letter was written in French on November 23, 1586. In it the Catholic Mary pleads forgiveness for her sins, but also wrote against perceived falsehoods pulled out by her enemies in England and cautioned the Pope about deceitful cardinals.
In the letter, she asserted that the tribunal, which condemned her to death was illegitimate and also recalled the suffering she had undergone during nearly 20 years of imprisonment under the rule of her Protestant cousin, Elizabeth I. (ANI)
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