Holy See

The Holy See enters the investigation as the reported custodian of files on Doctor Berasategui’s research into the so-called aspect of evil. Their removal from the country in a diplomatic pouch turns a local inquiry into a confrontation with a powerful institution, while leaving the investigators with a warning rather than access to the material.

Connection to the Berasategui Files

Father Sarasola tells the investigators that a file was found at the clinic containing records of Doctor Berasategui’s practices and research. The subject was described as the study of malign or demonic aspects intertwined with psychological disorders and varied practices. According to Sarasola, the material was considered so malign that it had been sent abroad in a diplomatic pouch and transferred to the Vatican.

The account links the Holy See to the files’ destination, not to the research itself. Nothing in the evidence establishes that the institution commissioned or participated in Berasategui’s work; the reported connection is the files’ transfer and their removal from the investigators’ reach.

Secrecy and Institutional Power

Sarasola warns that the Holy See would deny the transfer, just as the Vatican would deny it, and predicts that the government would punish the investigators if they made an issue of the matter. The files therefore acquire significance not only through their disturbing subject but through the barriers surrounding them: diplomatic handling, anticipated denial, and the risk of retaliation against those seeking answers.

The warning provides no independent confirmation of the transfer and does not explain who arranged it or what happened to the files afterward. The Holy See’s role remains an allegation conveyed through Sarasola, accompanied by his assessment that the investigators can do nothing about it.

Narrative Significance

The episode widens the story’s scale. Evidence gathered in a clinic points beyond local suspects and police procedure toward an institution whose authority makes ordinary investigative access seem impossible. The transfer is presented as a consequential obstruction, but not as proof of the Holy See’s involvement in the underlying crimes. That distinction preserves the uncertainty at the heart of the revelation: the investigators learn where the files were said to have gone, while being told that neither the institution nor the government is likely to acknowledge it.