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The Pope's Legion: The Multinational Fighting Force that Defended the Vatican
With Arthurian grandeur the Papal Zouaves marched into Italy in the mid-nineteenth century, summoned by the Pope under siege as the Wars of the Risorgimento raged. Motivated by wanderlust, a sense of duty and the call of faith, some 20,000 Catholic men from around the world rallied to Vatican City to defend her gates against Sardinian marauders. Volunteers came from France...more
ebook, 272 pages
Published
September 2nd 2008
by Palgrave Macmillan
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I just picked up my friend from Southern California, Charles Coloumbe's, new book, "The Pope's Legion: The Multinational Fighting Force that Defended the Vatican." It's about the all-but-forgotten history of a war that raged for a decade in the 19th century on the Italian peninsula before unification and the Zouave (look it up) soldiers who defended the Pope. It's not for everyone: Chas. is a Catholic writer (he writes often for the Vatican press and is a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Seb...more
After the Middle Ages and the Protestant Reformation, many European powers sought control of the Papal States in Italy. The popes had small armies of Catholic faithful for their defense. The Papal Zouaves served in these armies. Under pope Pius IX , between 1850 and 1860, numerous forces invaded The Papal States in order to wrest these provinces from the Church as well as dictate how the Church would operate. I found this work very interesting, especially its close attention to many of the parti...more
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