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34 recruits join Vatican’s Swiss Guard, swearing allegiance to Pope Francis

34 recruits join Vatican’s Swiss Guard, swearing allegiance to Pope Francis

ROME — Thirty-four new Swiss Guard recruits pledged their traditional oath in the Vatican on Monday and swore allegiance to Pope Francis in their distinctive way, raising three fingers to evoke the Holy Trinity while shouting the pontifical oath. The world’s smallest army, founded in 1506 by Pope Julius II, is still recruited from a...