The thirty new recruits of the Vatican’s elite Swiss Guard stand at attention during a swearing-in ceremony in Saint Damaso courtyard at the Vatican

The thirty new recruits of the Vatican’s elite Swiss Guard stand at attention during a swearing-in ceremony in Saint Damaso courtyard at the Vatican May 6, 2005. The Swiss Guard, founded in 1506, celebrates its 500th anniversary this year. The Guard consists of 100 volunteers who must be Swiss, Catholic, single, at least 174 cm (5 feet 8 inches) tall and beardless. New recruits are sworn in every year on May 6, commemorating the date in which 147 Swiss soldiers died defending the Pope during an attack on Rome on May 6, 1527. REUTERS/Max Rossi

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