He joined the papal guards at the age of 21.
Mr. Talese, the son of a tailor, carries himself like a papal guard and, now that his nudist phase is over, is the best-dressed writer in New York.
These, then, must he the papal guard, so renowned in knightly battle: the small private army of God's First Vicar.
On June 23, papal guards arrived at the home of the Mortara family and took away Edgardo, one of their eight children.
Orphaned at an early age, he became a soldier of fortune, serving first in the papal guard and then under various Italian princes.
Swiss mercenaries once served in a number of European countries, most notably as the guard of the French kings, but the papal guard is the only one to have survived.
St Bono probably has his own papal guard to protect him these days!
He travelled in France and Italy, and for five or six years held a commission in the papal guard, seeing service against the Ottoman Turks.
There are new enemy archetypes in addition to those seen in Assassin's Creed II such as horsemen, arquebusiers, papal guards and others.
While in exile in Rome, Maria fell in love with an officer of the papal guard, Armand de Lawayss, and became pregnant by him.