Palating guard
The Palatingarde (it. Guardia palatina d'onore ) was one of the four papal guards alongside the Swiss Guard , the Nobel Guard and the Gendarmerie Corps of the Vatican City .
The corps was already in 1850 by Pius IX. from militia organizations of the Papal States was founded and was true after the taking in the summer 1870 invasion of Italian troops under King Victor Emmanuel II. Rome on. Their usual armament consisted of rifles and pistols. In contrast to the Nobel and Gendarmerie Guard, she was never mounted and consisted of a maximum of 500 citizens of the city of Rome. It was named after the Palatine Hill in Rome. During the Second World War , the Palating Guard, reinforced by auxiliary guards during the German occupation, protected in particular the extraterritorial possessions of the Holy See . In 1969 the Palating Guard - together with the Nobel Guard - by Pope Paul VI. dissolved.
Individual evidence
- ^ Ulrich Nersinger: The gendarmerie corps of the Vatican State. ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. zenit.org, September 3, 2007, accessed February 19, 2010
- ↑ Ulrich Nersinger: Soldiers of the Pope: a short history of the Papal Guards (Nobel Guard, Swiss Guard, Palating Guard and Gendarmerie) , Mayer, Klosterneuburg-Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-901025-59-6 .
- ↑ Ulrich Nersinger: An army of guardian angels . In: VATICAN magazine 4/2007, pp. 11–13 ( online ; PDF; 1.6 MB).
