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Swiss Guards model the new military dress uniform in a courtyard of the Swiss Guards’ Vatican barracks during an Oct. 2, 2025, presentation. The uniform, an updated version of a historic uniform used from the late 1800s to 1976, will be used at important events. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA

Swiss Guards, Protectors of the Pope, Don New Uniforms

Oct 3, 2025

The 135 Swiss Guards will don the new uniforms for the first time at a dinner the night before the Oct. 4 ceremony to swear in this year’s recruits.

New Swiss Guards prepare to be sworn in on May 6, 2024, at the Vatican. / Credit: Elizabeth Alva/EWTN

"Always generous and diligent”: Pope Francis Welcomes Vatican’s New Swiss Guard Recruits

May 7, 2024

Pope Francis received the Vatican’s Swiss Guard Corps on the occasion of the swearing-in of the new guards on May 6.

Swiss Guards at the ceremony in Vatican City's San Damaso Courtyard on May 6, 2021./ © EWTN News/Daniel Ibáñez/Vatican Pool

‘We are ready to give up our lives’: 34 new Swiss Guards take oath to protect the pope

May 6, 2021

Thirty-four new Swiss Guards were sworn in Thursday in an elaborate ceremony in Vatican City in which the guards promised to protect the pope, even “sacrificing if necessary also my own life.”

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