Exceedingly rare Latin-language Vatican passport issued to Bishop Carlos Riu Angles of Camaguey, Cuba. The 10-page booklet measures 4.25 x 6 and admits access to the Vatican for the year 1962, with an opening page roughly translated: “Either civil or canonical as well as to all he required of them, and the authority thus contriving with military, as Exc. Mo D. Carlos Riu Angles, Episcopo Camagueyensi, they pleased themselves among the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council II, a man is admitted, to grant a license to freely cross that it, they are willing to bring forward the timely and assistance for the sympathy and support. From the Vatican, 10 months in the year one thousand nine hundred and sixty-two.” Affixed to the adjacent page is Angles’s 2 x 2.5 passport photo, signed on the photo and page a total of three times in ballpoint. In fine condition.
