So I was surprised to see him a few days later in the red, yellow and blue ‘gala’ uniform: he was a Swiss Guard! A Swiss Guard with a toolbox! The blue overalls that he wore that day made him look like an ordinary Italian worker. He wasn’t shy we fell into conversation.Īt first I thought that Nathanaël was one of the contractual staff who intervened within the Vatican if things went wrong. I was a bit lost in the maze of stairs and he showed me the way. I met Nathanaël by chance, when I was staying at the Vatican. The scarcity of the former and the omnipresence of the latter. Swiss Guard Nathanaël encountered two problems at the Vatican: girls and homosexuals. Frederic Martel, author of 'In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy'
