Thirty three new recruits of the Vatican's elite Swiss Guard during a swearing in ceremony at the Vatican May 06, 2003. The Swiss Guard, founded in 1506, consist of 100 volunteers who must be Swiss, Catholic, single, at least 174 centimetres tall and beardless. New recruits are sworn every year on May 06, commemorating the date in which 147 Swiss soldiers died defending the Pope during an attack on Rome on May 06, 1527