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 ...

ROME -- Thirty-four new Swiss Guard recruits pledged their traditional oath in the Vatican on Monday and swore ... to attention for hours with their halberd. Not quite so visibly, and more ...

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 ...