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Vatican Helped in Case of Lincoln Assassination Suspect

L.A. Times Archives

Dec. 31, 1989 12 AM PT

From Associated Press WASHINGTON —

 

There is historical precedent for the Vatican agreeing to turn over a fugitive to the United States, although the Holy See maintains it cannot surrender ousted strongman Manuel A. Noriega from its embassy in Panama.

 

The Vatican adopted an entirely different position when asked to turn over John H. Surratt Jr., one of the suspected conspirators in the 1865 assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

 

Surratt, a young Confederate spy who had conspired with John Wilkes Booth to abduct Lincoln in 1864, fled after Booth shot Lincoln on April 14, 1865. Surratt, a devout Catholic, changed his name to John Watson and joined Pope Pius IX’s Zouaves Regiment.

 

Surratt was located in 1866, whereupon Secretary of State William H. Seward notified Secretary of War E.M. Stanton.

 

“As we have no treaty of extradition with the papal government, it is proposed that a special agent be sent to Rome to demand the surrender of Surratt,” Seward wrote Stanton on May 28, 1866.

 

Accordingly, the U.S. envoy to the Vatican, Rufus King, sought a meeting with the Pope’s foreign minister, Cardinal Antonelli, to tell him about Surratt.

 

“His Eminence was greatly interested by it, and intimated that if the American government desired the surrender of the criminal, there would probably be no difficulty in any way,” King wrote Seward.

 

Several months later, having ascertained that Watson was indeed the fugitive Surratt, Seward instructed King to ask the cardinal “whether His Holiness (the Pope) would now be willing, in the absence of an extradition treaty, to deliver John H. Surratt. . . . “

 

So eager was the Vatican to help that it did not even wait for an official request and ordered Surratt arrested immediately.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-12-31-mn-222-story.html

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89liphas_L%C3%A9vi

 

Éliphas Lévi Zahed, born Alphonse Louis Constant (8 February 1810 – 31 May 1875), was a French esotericist, poet, and writer. Initially pursuing an ecclesiastical career in the Catholic Church, he abandoned the priesthood in his mid-twenties and became a ceremonial magician. At the age of 40, he began professing knowledge of the occult.[1] He wrote over 20 books on magic, Kabbalah, alchemical studies, and occultism.

 

The pen name "Éliphas Lévi", was an anagram of his given names "Alphonse Louis" into Hebrew. Levi gained renown as an original thinker and writer, his works attracting attention in Paris and London among esotericists and artists of romantic or symbolist inspiration.[2][3] He left the Grand Orient de France (the French Masonic organization that originated Continental Freemasonry) in the belief that the original meanings of its symbols and rituals had been lost. "I ceased being a freemason, at once, because the Freemasons, excommunicated by the Pope, did not believe in tolerating Catholicism … [and] the essence of Freemasonry is the tolerance of all beliefs."[4]

 

Many authors influenced Levi's political, occultic and literary development, such as the French monarchist Joseph de Maistre, whom he quotes in many parts of his Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie, Paracelsus, Robert Fludd, Swedenborg, Fabre d'Olivet, the Rosicrucians, Plato, Raymond Lull, and other esoterics.[5]