Eta Cicioni under the windows of the Pope worked every day, often until the very evening. He saw him during the celebrations to which, because of his work in the large “family” of the Swiss Guard, he was invited, at the midnight mass, during the urbi et Orbi blessing on Easter Sunday, sometimes at audiences, or when, after finishing his work, he was going to get his car parked in the Belvedere Courtyard, and the Holy Father was just passing towards the Gate of St. Anne, going to a Mass or service in Rome. The Pope was no stranger to him, on the contrary. Ety treated him normally – as one of the inhabitants of a tiny state; he has become accustomed to the fact that every morning he begins to work in close proximity to the head of the Church. On the other hand, in his daily professional life he focused on ordinary duties, of which he had plenty, and did not think much about the great dimension of what was happening around him. And, before he began his adventure in the tailoring studio of the Vatican army, he did not even know – as he admits – that the Vatican is a separate state being, not to mention how detailed it functions.
Magdalena Wolińska-Riedi “It happened in the Vatican”
Znak Publishing House. Kraków 2020
pages: 101 – 102
