recruits train at the Pontifical Swiss Guard Headquarters in Vatican City. They learn proper saluting, individual and group formations, guard changes and how to handle the halberd, a weapon used ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — With a determined gaze, Renato Peter clenched the flag of the Swiss Guard in his fist while ... and often carrying a medieval halberd, not to mention draped in the ...

recruits train at the Pontifical Swiss Guard Headquarters in Vatican City. They learn proper saluting, individual and group formations, guard changes and how to handle the halberd, a weapon used ...

Pope Benedict has honoured the Swiss Guards, the small army that protects the Vatican, at a mass inside St Peter's Basilica ... and blue uniforms and carrying their traditional weapon, the halberd, ...