Rome, Recent
1.
Various St Peter's square
2. Close-up on a
Swiss Guards publicity leaflet
3. Wide shot of Swiss Guards marching
4. SOUNDBITE: (
French) Reynald Heritier,
Swiss guard:
"(Accompanying the
Pope) to me means in fact that I'm joining together soul and heart, that is, the soul because we are at the service of the
Holy Father, and the heart because it is our country we are going to (referring to
Switzerland). I think this is the apotheosis of my service.
It's really like putting together in one day only all the things that I care most for."
5.
Tilt up of the uniform
6. SOUNDBITE: (
Italian)
Patrick Brazzolla, Swiss guard:
"It's always a great emotion when you are close to the Holy Father, and then also -being able to accompany him on his trips abroad it's even a bigger emotion for guards like us."
7. Wide shot of
Swiss guards patrolling Vatican's Sant'
Anna entrance
8. SOUNDBITE: (
German)
Commander Colonel Elmar Maeder, Swiss Guards:
"I decided to choose some young guards and I wanted one from each language areas in Switzerland, we have four official languages, so for each language I wanted one guard. I asked the sergeant to tell me the names of these young guards, to choose the four guards and then to call them into my office. They came to my office in the morning not knowing why they were called for. So they where not sure whether it was for a punishment or a mistake or whatever. Then I told them: 'well you are going to travel with the Holy Father to Switzerland'. and they were of course relieved and very happy about that."
9. Wide shot of
St. Peter's square
Berne, 4 June 2004
10. Wide shot of altar for open air mass presided by the Pope
11.
Mid shot of soldiers setting up barriers
12. SOUNDBITE: (French)
Marc Aellen, Spokesman
Swiss Bishop's Conference:
"This meeting is of great importance because it's the first time that all the young Swiss
Catholics will get together, that is, young people coming from the three linguistic regions in Switzerland, and also from different ecclesiastical realities, movements and
Catholic youth associations. The fact that the Pope comes to this youth meeting underlines the importance of this rally and we are looking forward to this weekend for the unity of all the catholic people of this country.
13.
Close up of the
Swiss flag
14. Mid shot soldiers at work
15. Mid shot of meadow called
Prairie de L'Allemand (the German's meadow) with barricades
16. Close up of dove
sign
17.
Zoom in from flowers into a soldier with a sniffer dog
18. Various of cleaning up
19.
Woman soldier with sniffer dog
20. Mid shot of white cross
STORYLINE:
The 84-year-old
John Paul sets off on a 32-hour visit to Switzerland on Saturday, the latest test of a frail condition that has left him to be pushed in a wheeled chair by aides.
The most-travelled pontiff in history resumes his first foreign travel since a pilgrimage to
Slovakia in September.
The pope has
Parkinson's disease and is slowed by hip and knee ailments. He no longer stands in public and celebrates
Mass while seated in a special chair. His texts are shorter because speaking is clearly a strain.
While the Swiss program has been scaled down, compared with other foreign trips over the years, the visit to the capital of
Bern still will be taxing. It includes a rally expected to draw up to 10,
000 Swiss Catholic youths in a sports arena Saturday evening and an open-air Mass for 60 thousand people in a meadow outside the city the next morning.
For most outsiders, Switzerland's ties with the Vatican boil down to one thing, the
Swiss Guard, created in 1506 to protect the pope. But that ignores conflicts stretching back almost as far.
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