Soeur Dometilla (75) travaille pour coudre des pièces de tissu pour une cérémonie à Saint-Pierre au Vatican le 2016 octobre. Des centaines de mètres de tissu « require des heures de travail et de patience. Nous sommes ici pour le faire", a commenté la sœur Dometilla. Comme l'horloge a frappé 12, la nonne a cessé de travailler assez longtemps pour se rendre au stoop où elle a récité la prière de l'Angelus. Chaque jour en même temps, complètement éloigné de l'agitation du monde extérieur, la vie au Vatican s'arrête complètement pour les quelques moments requis par le récital de cette prière au son des cloches resoundi

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Sister Dometilla (75) works to sew pieces of fabric for a ceremony in Saint-Peter at the Vatican on October 2016. Hundreds of meters of fabric 'require hours of work and patience. We are here to do it', serenely commented Sister Dometilla. As the clock struck 12, the nun stopped working long enough to make her way to the stoop where she recited the prayer of the Angelus. Every day at the same time, completely removed from the agitation of the outside world, life in the Vatican comes to a complete halt for the few moments required by the recital of this prayer to the sound of the bells resounding in the St. Peter's clock tower. The Vatican is the planet's smallest State. Within this tiny political entity, the world's largest and most influential Church's executive powers affect the lives of at least one billion Catholics throughout the world. In fact, the Vatican is the only State in the world subservient to a religion. The pontifical palace, Swiss Guards, in-house newspaper, railroad station and hundreds of employees, executives, manual laborers and craftsmen, are all part of life in the Vatican, to which we have been invited for a special visit. Some 2, 000 employees cross over the Santa Anna gate each morning at around 7 am, the gateway guarded both by the Swiss Guards and the vigilenzia (Vatican police force). Not all of them work at the Vatican by vocation, but many admit that a deep personal connection to the Pope has motivated their choice of work. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM