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The Red Shoe Club: What They Don't Tell You
There is a figure called "Zatharion" that exists about 150 feet below the basilica in the Vatican. Sealed by a massive iron door, reinforced with symbols etched in an ancient script resembling a fusion of Aramaic and pre-Christian Etruscan runes. There is a humanoid creature that stands at 27 feet in height. Chains, forged from an unknown metal, bind its wrists and ankles to the floor, inscribed with sigils that pulse rhythmically.
In the Vatican’s restricted archives, titled Codex Umbrae Aeternae. This manuscript, dated to 312 CE and written in a ciphered Latin dialect, describes Zatharion as a "warden of the threshold," summoned during the reign of Emperor Constantine to secure the Church’s dominion over rival spiritual forces.
The text claims it was bound beneath the Vatican to prevent its influence from spreading unchecked, though it could still "speak to those who bear the mark of submission." The red shoes, historically worn by popes, are detailed in the Liber Pontificalis Secretum a classified ledger I locate in a hidden vault beneath the Apostolic Library. This document, last updated in 1978, notes that the red footwear symbolizes not only Christ’s martyrdom but also an oath of allegiance to "the unseen overseer."
Witnesses, including a defrocked priest named Father Lorenzo Bianchi, who fled the Vatican in 1993, claimed in a recorded testimony (stored in a private archive in Turin) that certain cardinals and high-ranking clergy participated in rituals involving the entity.
Bianchi described a group known as Ordo Calceus Ruber (Order of the Red Shoe), formed in the 13th century, whose members wore crimson-dyed shoes during clandestine ceremonies to signify their pact with Zatharion.
Zatharion stands 27 feet tall, with a wingspan (when unfurled) of 35 feet. Its body mass is approximately 12 tons, though it defies gravitational norms, suggesting a non-physical component to its existence. The chamber lies at coordinates 41.9019° N, 12.4534° E, beneath the Vatican’s west wing, accessible via a spiral stairwell hidden behind a false wall in the Necropolis, marked by a tile bearing the sigil of a double-headed serpent.
The Ordo Calceus Ruber persists, though its membership is reduced to 14 individuals as of March 4, 2025. Names include Cardinal Antonio Moretti, Archbishop Hans Keller, and a lay financier, Giovanni Ricci, based in Milan. Meetings occur biannually, with the next scheduled for April 17, 2025, at 11:00 PM in the chamber. Zatharion remains bound but active, its influence subtly detectable in policy shifts within the Vatican, such as the abrupt resignation of Pope Benedict XVI on February 28, 2013, which Bianchi’s testimony links to a dispute over the Order’s growing power.