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Halberds in hand, their armour polished and multicoloured pantaloons perfectly pressed, 36 new recruits to the Swiss Guards were sworn in on Friday with a vow to protect the pope.
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Under the watchful gaze of former popes in framed photographs hanging on the walls, tailor Ety Cicioni races to stitch the brightly coloured uniforms for pontifical Swiss Guard recruits ahead of their…
Rome s traditional religious workshops struggle amid pandemic
Despite the challenges, artisans praise the personal, even spiritual, rewards of working with one s hands
Updated: May 09, 2021 02:28 AM GMT
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The neighborhood of ivy-draped two-story buildings, cobblestone streets and Marian shrines adjacent to St. Peter s Basilica in Rome is perhaps best known today for serving gelato and pizza to tourists visiting the Vatican.
History, however, knows the Borgo as the zone is called by locals as a village of ecclesiastical artisans who produce and restore religious articles for the Vatican and wider church.
With the rising costs of rent in central Rome, the abandonment of the artisanal trades by the younger generation and now the economic blow caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the tradition and ethos of the once vibrant neighborhood of workshops and craftsmen are disappearing.