If you have been to the Vatican, you will find that the Pope's guard is Swiss. The Swiss Guard became the Pope's guard in the Vatican starting in the early 16th century. In June 1505, Pope Yulio II at the time hired 200 strong Swiss guards.

soldiers were brought to Rome and decided to let them guard the Vatican.

Switzerland has picturesque scenery, but also traffic congestion. Good places have long been reclaimed into fields and towns, and only places unsuitable for human habitation can remain in their natural state.

After Switzerland became independent, its financial source came from men from all over the country working as mercenaries abroad and earning money to send back home. In May 1527, Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire led an army to invade Rome and carried out massive destruction and killing of the city of Rome. In the Papal Palace and Castel Sant'Angelo

There is a secret passage in the connected ancient city walls - "Passetto". Pope Clemens VII asked the guards to guard the palace, and ordered the secret passage to be opened and fled to the city of Sant'Angelo for refuge. At that time, in order to protect

In order to protect the life of the Pope, many guards died, and only 42 people were left in the original 189-man Guards. 20 years after this incident, Pope Paul III not only resurrected the then-dead Guards, but also increased the number of guards.

to 225 people.

Colonel Lupen, the new captain of the guard, reorganized the Swiss Guard. With his passionate and loyal temperament, he formulated a strict guard system and expelled all non-Swiss guards from the guard, including those who married Italian women and lived in Italy.

Descendants of the Swiss Guards.

As we all know, Swiss banks are the safest banks in the world. Guess how much money the Vatican has deposited in Swiss banks?

The Swiss can make the banking and manufacturing industries top-notch because they know that if they do not do well, they will have to carry guns and go to war like the current Africans and Middle Easterners.

Switzerland made a rare act of kindness in world history. At that time, due to the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, no one was in charge of Liechtenstein as a vassal state. Switzerland stood up and formed an alliance with Liechtenstein to provide diplomatic and defense protection. Switzerland itself was also in a precarious situation, and it could have been left alone.

This is true, but they still provide protection to Liechtenstein. As we all know, Liechtenstein is the richest royal family in Europe. Guess how much money they have deposited in Swiss banks?

Switzerland is one of the few permanent neutral countries that has no blood debt, and so is Venice. Their old enemy Genoa is now owned by France, and the French's pursuit of the Templars is well known.

If Venice protected the life and property of the Knights Templar, it was also an act of justice. In the past, the Christian Alliance and the Ottoman Empire also sacrificed everything when they competed for hegemony in the Mediterranean. More importantly, the Swiss Bank was involved in the gold scandal.

Inside, this had a serious impact on their reputation. The Swiss bank not only absorbed a large amount of Jewish deposits through anonymous accounts, but also used its status as a neutral country to conduct numerous secret transactions with the Nazi Germany. The "Bank Secrecy Act" made

Wealth deposited in a Swiss bank is as reliable as a safe. But another problem arises immediately: if the depositor deposits a large sum of money anonymously in a Swiss bank and then dies suddenly without giving the bank a will before his death,

He had no chance to tell his family the deposit password, so his deposit would remain in the Swiss bank forever and could not be withdrawn.

Even the devil couldn't collect the debt from the witch who made a deal with him at the Devil's Bridge and died suddenly.

There are not a few countries that want to be "Swiss Banks". Banks in New York in the United States are UBS's biggest competitors. However, the real estate bubble in the United States is bigger than Venice, a city like a sea bubble. Crises are also business opportunities. If Venice can become a city again

A permanently neutral country, replacing the Swiss Bank as the financial center, they no longer need to rely on the tourism industry and tourists to boost the economy.

European Catholics call the Pope "Papa". As long as he deposits money in a Venetian bank, he can call him "Papa" as many times as he wants.

"Papa", "Papa", "Papa".

Rich Europeans like to go to Venice to attend film festivals and the like, and those flashlights keep flashing like stars in the sky.

Compared with that place in Switzerland, the coquettish charm of Venice is more in line with their taste. If the Pope's personal bodyguard is replaced by an Italian, whether he is from Naples or Sicily, after all, Italy is now a unified country, that is also a kind of

victory.

The Corsican Napoleon did have reason to be afraid of the Lion of the East. The Knights Templar happened so many years ago, who still remembers them?

However, all the assets transferred by the Knights Templar were real money. At dusk on March 22, 1314, on an island in the Seine River in Paris, Jacques de Molay, the Grand Master of the Knights Templar, was murdered by King Philip IV of France.

He was tied to a stake and burned slowly with fire.

Subsequently, the Count of Guiche de Beauge established an organization of "pure architects". He asked the French King for permission to bury Molay's body in another place, and the King agreed.

So using Jacques de Molay's coffin, Beauje took the opportunity to remove several boxes of treasures such as gold, silver and gems from the large pillars of the Knights Templar church, and moved them to a safe place. This group of "architects"

"No one said they were from the Free Masons, and there is no evidence to prove it.

Shakespeare said: I hope those rumors are as unreliable as the lies of an old woman who has nothing to do after eating, or chews ginger, or pretends to cry bitterly for the death of her third husband with a runny nose and tears.

Rumors stop at the wise. Who wants to be a fool who believes everything?

The Knights Templar had their own unique set of occult symbols and secret religious rituals that they used to hide and retrieve their treasures.

Why do Venetians choose November 21st as their Health Day, and even the whole city holds religious ceremonies?

There can be many reasons for this, I was in a good mood that day, or everyone was free, but there is also a possibility that on November 21, 164 BC, Judah Maccabee rebuilt the temple, and the Jews later designated this day as the day to rebuild the temple.

Commemorated on the Feast of the Dedication of the Temple.

The full name of the Knights Templar is the "Poor Knights of Christ and the Temple of Solomon". Judas Maccabee rebuilt the Second Temple in Jerusalem.

The Jerusalem Temple was the highest place of worship for the ancient Israelites. Since Solomon's Temple was built in Jerusalem in the 10th century BC, Jerusalem has been the center of the Jewish faith and the holiest city. It immediately became a place of worship to worship God and the nation of Israel.

symbol, this temple is the first temple.

On August 16, 586 BC, King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon destroyed Jerusalem and the First Temple was destroyed.

It was destroyed for the second time by the Roman Empire general Titus in 70 AD. Before the destruction, the Holy of Holies in the Jerusalem Temple contained the Ark of the Covenant. It is the most sacred place in Judaism. Only the high priest is qualified to hold it once a year.

Entering the Holy of Holies, the cabinet was missing.

Napoleon took away the Wedding in Cana, and even if the Louvre later returned the painting, the matter was not over.

He attacked a permanently neutral country. Who would attack Switzerland now? Not even Japan would do that!

It was not a big deal for a Venetian girl to fall in love with an Austrian boy, but because of this relationship, the boy was killed by the girl's family just like Romeo and Juliet. If the girl hadn't gone to find a witch, she would have committed suicide like Juliet.

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This story took place after the 18th century, only two hundred years ago.

According to legend, the Grand Master of the Knights Templar cursed King Philip IV and Pope Clement V before his death, saying that they would face eternal judgment within a year.

Sure enough, Pope Clement V died of a sudden illness a month later, and another cursed person, the "Beautiful Man" Philip IV, died suddenly while hunting half a year later.

The French king at that time wanted to supplement the increasingly difficult financial expenditure by attacking the Knights Templar and confiscating their wealth.

Since Grand Master Jacques de Molay was killed and the Knights Templar were brutally suppressed by France and other countries, the Knights and France and other countries have become feuds, and one of the Knights Templar's properties in England is the London Temple Church

It was also transferred to the Order of the Rescue.

The Order of the Rescue was a military order that enjoyed the same reputation as the Templars during the Crusades and often had conflicts. It was also known as the Order of Malta because it clung to the island of Malta after the fall of Jerusalem.

The Order of the Rescue leased the Temple Church to lawyers until Henry VIII took it over.

The three major knights who participated in the Crusades had very holy purposes at the beginning, such as protecting the poor, providing medical care, and rescue, etc. I am afraid they did not realize what roles they played until they actually arrived in the war zone.

They became rich, but they were not saved because the gold was filled with human blood.

Monica and Alejandro's families are very ordinary. They are not very rich, but they are very happy. If they really plan to participate in this game, Pomona has a way for them to win, but they may be very happy.

I miss the time when I would shamelessly go to Uncle Fabio’s house for a meal.

She is not Lily. Lily will protect Severus from being bullied by rich young men like James Potter and Sirius Black, but a boy who is always protected cannot become stronger.

She is a cruel person, but she is not completely bad, so God made her to be a woman. She thinks a lot but has no power to act. She looks for a sense of identity in the wrong group of people, but in the end she cannot get it, and ends up where she is now.

end.

On March 5, 2005, she leaned against the stained glass window and looked at Venice bathed in the morning light. Now the city had just woken up, and there were only a few ships sailing on the Grand Canal.

She fully enjoyed her freedom for less than a day before she was bound by an invisible chain again. She really missed the Slytherin boy who was always bullied.

Severus, who was neatly dressed, had birds, snakes, and cockroaches coiled around his arms. He still wore a cloak and looked like a wizard. After putting on the mask, he was no different from a Muggle in a carnival.

"Let's go, don't keep them waiting too long."

She doesn't want to take his orders.

"Do you want to stay home with me all day?"

He didn't threaten her, but she gave up resistance and grabbed his arm.

So they left the bedroom that they had not left for three days, walked to the atrium, and Apparated under the courtesy of two house elves.
Chapter completed!