I was sent this link of a French documentary on the Swiss Guard. Even if you don’t understand French, even a little bit, watching the documentary is rewarding for the images alone. It’s brief, nearly 32 min.
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Swiss Guard at the Gandolfo door
The newbies for the Swiss Guard
These guys are the 2012 recruits for the Swiss Guard who protect the Pope. They began their service in early June.
From Swiss Guard to Benedictine monk
Pilgrims to the Vatican notice a few things: the pope, the architecture and the Swiss Guard. The Guard, in their colorful uniform, are quite identifiable because of the closeness to the Pope. These young men in the service of protecting the Holy Father are Swiss, Catholic, unmarried and fulfilling their military requirement.
Occasionally, a vocation to protect temporalities leads to a vocation to protect and to proclaim the divine as a priest or vowed religious. Not long ago Marco Rudolf Honegger entered the Einsiedeln Abbey becoming Brother Mauritius; Brother professed solemn vows in 2010. As part of his formation to be a priest Brother Mauritius went to Saint Meinrad Archabbey and Seminary to further his education.
The Criterion, the Indianapolis Archdioceses’s newspaper, records the story.
Thanks to Dom Francis de Sales of Saint Meinrad Archabbey for the story. He writes The Yoke of Christ blog.