> New batch of Swiss Guards take up their halberds / 329L74Z
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New batch of Swiss Guards take up their halberds / 329L74Z
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Halberds in hand, their armour polished and multicoloured pantaloons perfectly pressed, 36 new recruits to the Swiss Guards are sworn in with a vow to protect the pope. Pope Francis had earlier received the latest members of the world's smallest army -- they total 135 -- before the guards pledged their "respect, loyalty and obedience" to the pontiff in a ceremony in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican. IMAGES