The forgotten historical past of Corsican mercenaries within the service of the Pope | EUROtoday

Cis likely one of the oldest basilicas in Rome, which native residents nonetheless name “the church of the Corsicans.” » In the guts of Trastevere, the place many islanders had settled after fleeing the Barbary invasions greater than a millennium in the past, San Crisogono has preserved inside its partitions the vestiges of a forgotten historical past: that of the Corsican papal guard. These battalions of troopers recruited by the Holy See, who maintained order for hundreds of years within the Papal States.