Swiss Guards help Italian earthquake victims during time off

Friday, June 8th, 2012

With Pope Benedict XVI in Milan over last weekend for three days under the watchful eyes of Vatican and Italian police, members of the Pontifical Swiss Guard set down their halberds and went off to do some volunteer work in earthquake-stricken northern Italy last weekend.

Lt Col Christoph Graf, vice commander of the Swiss Guards, told L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, that it was “a spontaneous act of charity and solidarity”. Continue reading

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