PHOTO OF THE DAY May 16, 2005  

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Where Paul VI Audience Hall, Vatican City
When 1988
Photographer James L. Stanfield

Swiss Guards—responsible for the safety of the pope—watch over as many as 9,000 visitors in the circa-1971 Paul VI Audience Hall in Vatican City.

—From the National Geographic book Inside the Vatican, 1991


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