{"id":50071,"date":"2017-11-13T18:24:07","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T17:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2017\/11\/13\/secrets-and-the-origin-of-the-vatican-gendarmerie-revealed-in-new-book\/"},"modified":"2017-11-13T18:24:07","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T17:24:07","slug":"secrets-and-the-origin-of-the-vatican-gendarmerie-revealed-in-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2017\/11\/13\/secrets-and-the-origin-of-the-vatican-gendarmerie-revealed-in-new-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Secrets and the origin of the Vatican Gendarmerie revealed in new book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Holy See's police force, known as the<strong> Gendarmerie Corps of Vatican City<\/strong>, is still a mystery to some.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This team of men who dedicate their lives to protecting the pope is commonly believed to have been established in 1816, but the <strong>book \u201cVatican Gendarmerie<\/strong>,<strong> from the origins to our time\u201d <\/strong>shows it was created much earlier.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, many Gendarmerie officers and art experts met in the impressive \u201cBraccio Nuovo\u201d in the Vatican Museums for the<strong> presentation of the book<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SANDRO BARBAGALLO<br \/>\nAuthor, \u201cVatican Gendarmerie, from the origins to our time\u201d<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>\u201cIn this book, a series of events and historical anecdotes are revealed through documents that had never been published until now. They were hidden in archives once closed to the public, like the archive of the Secretary of State instead of the archive of the Gendarmerie itself.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>These documents unveil <strong>details and secrets<\/strong> \u2014 like never before told dismissals of Gendarmerie officers \u2014which make up the history of the Vatican security force.<\/p>\n<p>The Gendarmerie is a<strong> one-of-a-kind force<\/strong> because it handles all of the functions of the judicial police, intelligence, the pope\u2019s security and the security of the smallest country in the world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>CESARE CATANANTI<br \/>\nAuthor, \u201cVatican Gendarmerie, from the origins to our time\u201d<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>\u201cThe Vatican City State didn\u2019t exist as a nation until 1870. It later went through the establishment of Vatican City and also two world wars, terrorism and a number of incredible challenges. What impacted me most when writing this book is its ability to embrace these changes and adapt itself. The ability to act and anticipate these signs of change.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>SANDRO BARBAGALLO<br \/>\nAuthor, \u201cVatican Gendarmerie, from the origins to our time\u201d<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>\u201cThe characteristic of Gendarmerie officers, more than anything, is to have a strong sense of loyalty. They also have a strong sense of altruism and sacrifice. It\u2019s a loyalty understood as loyalty to the Holy Father, to the Church and, naturally, to religion.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As the Gendarmerie motto reads \u201cfides et virtus,\u201d this lifelong job can only be carried out by those with a strong sense of <strong>loyalty and courage<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 13, 2017. It contains never before published documents and letters from Gendarmerie officers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":27934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/YhE4DRl5fkg","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/blibrogendarmeriaeng.mov","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/blibrogendarmeriaint.mov","type":"none","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}