⭐️外交工作- 向教宗拜年🌟 萬家興大使⭐️
「每年的第二個星期六教廷舉辦外交團新年團拜。這是個非常重要的傳統節日，其中過程彷若回到中古世紀。儀式的主題是教宗向全世界人民祝賀新年。教廷和全世界大約190個國家有外交關係，所有各國大使都受邀出席。」
⭐Diplomatic work - birthday to the pope 🌟 Ambassador Wan Jiaxing ️
"The Holy See hosts a diplomatic mission for the New Year on the second Saturday of the year. This is a very important traditional festival in which the process seems to go back to the Middle Ages. The theme of the ceremony is the pope's New Year's greeting to the people of the The Holy See has diplomatic relations with some 190 countries around the world, and all ambassadors are invited to attend. " The "
回憶錄60
向教宗拜年
每年的第二個星期六教廷舉辦外交團新年團拜。這是個非常重要的傳統節日，其中過程彷若回到中古世紀。儀式的主題是教宗向全世界人民祝賀新年。教廷和全世界大約190個國家有外交關係，所有各國大使都受邀出席。
在羅馬的駐教廷大使館約八十多個。其它近百國家的大使館在其它國家，通常是在歐洲國家首都，而派駐教廷為「兼使」。每年此日，很多國家的兼使都會從巴黎倫敦日內瓦等地趕來參加盛會。
大約在每年12月教廷禮賓司發出請帖。請帖上面寫明了舉行日期時間，男士和女士的服裝穿著，停車位置，抵達時間，入座時間，以及請回覆參加人員。這是非常正式的請帖。我就把1987年一月十日我參加的過程向大家介紹。
早晨九點我穿上大禮服。它包括：燕尾服上衣，在羅馬特別服飾店買的禮服專用白襯衫，鑲黑邊黑長褲，白領結，光亮的漆皮皮鞋。我太太全身黑長禮服，頭戴黑紗，耳環胸針是基本配備。穿戴整齊出門碰到社區管理員Marcelo。他眼睛一亮，肅然起敬，向我們夫婦敬禮。
我開車到了當天的活動入口，比爾大門時，前方有一輛賓士轎車插著國旗，應該是某國大使，瑞士衛兵立正敬禮。我們的車是銀灰色富豪，不怎麼起眼，但車牌是CD外交車牌，衛兵也向我們敬禮。進了大門後，全是石塊鋪的道路，這些石塊有五百年歷史。兩旁深宮大殿，壯觀美麗。到了使徒宮的鐘樓廣場，我把車停好，攙扶著穿著半高跟鞋的太太，走進使徒宮。使徒宮走道兩旁衛兵列隊站立，他們保持著中古世紀的打扮，戴著鐵盔手持長戟，腰間配著寶劍，制服是米開朗基羅的設計。衛兵隊長一聲口令，他們向我們夫婦立正敬禮。
瑞士衛兵有歷史傳統。在中世紀教皇國雇用瑞士人當衛兵。1527年5月6日教宗克里蒙七世遭到神聖羅馬帝國的軍隊入侵，瑞士衛兵奮勇抵抗，使得教宗在最緊急時刻，躲開災難。此役189人的衛隊陣亡了147人。此後教廷的衛隊一律向瑞士招募，而瑞士也非常配合，提供教廷適合的兵役年齡男子，每年5月6日就成了新兵入伍宣示效忠教宗的紀念日。
走過使徒宮，進入電梯。電梯中的侍者身穿燕尾服，引領我們到宗座廳，Sala Regia，然後一位資深的領位員問了我們來自那個國家，再把我和太太交給兩位領位員，一位帶著我到外交團我國的席位，另一位引導萬太太到女眷席。
外交團的席位排列明確。按照各國大使呈遞國書的先後順序排列。在教宗的右手邊座位依序是第1，3，5，7，9。左手邊是2，4，6，8，10，以此類推。一眼望去，大約有八九十位大使在座。教宗的遠方正對面，是女士席。全部都是黑禮服，黑壓壓一片，大約五十位。教宗右手邊第一位，也就是外交團團長，是象牙海岸大使。已經任職18年。我國周大使1978年抵任，已經9年，坐在教宗左手方第三位，因此他是外交團第6資深者。在各國大使的後面，依該國使館職銜排座位。我國周大使之後依序是項士揆公使，謝新平參事，萬家興二等秘書。周大使非常關心自己的座位，很不希望向前移動，每年此時他都會看自己的位置離團長多近。因為我國和大多國家沒有邦交，擔任外交團團長會不方便。教廷希望擔任外交團團長的大使，是各國都能接受的人選。當我國大使年資快到前三名，教廷很可能要求更換大使。時年74歲，排名第六的周大使，不希望被換掉。他希望在大使位置「越久越好」。
各國大使的服裝多彩多姿。現場絕大多數穿著燕尾服，大使，公使大多配掛綵帶勳章。我國周大使，配戴彩帶勳章，項公使戴著越南總統阮文紹贈與的一枚勳章，謝新平參事和我沒有勳章可配掛。有些歐洲有王室的老牌國家大使例如葡萄牙，丹麥，比利時，愛爾蘭等國大使穿著戎裝，像是十九世紀的將軍，鑲著紅邊的制服，制服上掛著一排勳章，手持像法國騎兵的高帽，腰間配把長劍，雄姿英發。摩洛哥大使為在教宗左手邊第一位，第二資深，一身白衣白袍白帽白披風白鞋。印尼大使一身灰色服裝，頭戴無邊黑色方帽，腰間繫著紅布巾。伊朗大使一身回教打扮，頭上纏白頭巾。巴基斯坦大使穿著像制服的灰色圓領上裝和長褲。置身大廳彷彿回到電影中描述的十八世紀宮廷。菲律賓大使，年輕有為，是李姓華裔後裔，能簡單閩南語交談。新加坡大使，四十歲出頭，非常年輕。我們的亞洲鄰國大使更換很快，朝氣蓬勃。
十點59分大廳突然大放光明，全體外交團起立，靜待教宗蒞臨。十一時整，教宗進入大廳，優雅地坐在聖座。接著教宗右手邊第一位的象牙海岸大使起立，代表全體外交團以法語向教宗祝賀新年。他讚揚教宗對世界和平的貢獻，希望各國共同努力，促進世界和平。隨後教宗也以法語致詞，全體一片肅靜。教宗提到「世界和平」。這是每年都提到的主題，今年更有「恐怖主義」以及在戰爭，飢荒，苛政之下的苦難人民。世界上仍有許多野心家不聽教宗的呼籲，把人民當作逞遂私欲的工具，進行毫無意義的戰爭。最後教宗用義大利英法德西班牙中日韓等國語言，祝福世界各國人民「新年快樂」。
致詞結束後，教宗走下台階，先和各國使節一一握手，祝賀新年，然後走到女士席，特別停下，允許每位女士和教宗握手合影。這是女士們期待的時刻，女士們很高興，很有秩序地和教宗合影留念。整個活動大約在十二點結束。
回憶錄60 向教宗拜年
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1. 萬秘書夫婦盛裝出席
2. 萬太太向教宗拜年
3. 萬秘書夫婦和瑞士衛兵合影
4. 瑞士衛兵，制服好帥，米開朗基羅設計
5. 台階上手持古代長戟的衛兵
6. 周大使和館員項公使，謝參事，萬秘書
7. 有紅圈標示同一張照片
8. 萬太太與韓國秘書太太
9. 周大使與教宗
10. 教宗若望保祿二世
Memories 60
Celebrating the Pope's Year
On the second Saturday of the year, the Holy See hosts a diplomatic mission for the New Year. This is a very important traditional festival in which the process seems to go back to the Middle Ages. The theme of the ceremony is the pope's New Year's greeting to the people of the The Holy See has diplomatic relations with some 190 countries around the world, and all ambassadors are invited to attend.
There are about 80 embassies in Rome. Nearly a hundred other countries have embassies in other countries, usually in European capitals, and are assigned to the Holy See as "participants". Every year on this day, envoys from many countries come from Paris, London, Geneva and other places to attend the event.
Invitation is sent out by the Holy See concierge around December every year. Invitation notes date and time, men's and women's clothing, parking location, arrival time, seating time, and please reply to attend. This is a very formal invitation. I'll introduce you to the process I participated in on January 10, 1987.
I put on a big dress at 9am. It includes: tuxedo top, white shirt for dress bought at a special clothing store in Rome, black pants with black edges, white bowtie, shiny leather shoes. My wife has a long black dress, black hair, earrings brooch is basic. Going out dressed up and ran into community admin Marcelo. His eyes brightened, and he saluted us couple.
I drove to the entrance of the day's event, Bill Gate, and there was a Mercedes brakes in front of me with the national flag, supposed to be the ambassador of a certain country, the Swiss guard saluted. Our car is silver grey rich, not much eye-catching, but the license plate is CD diplomatic license plate, and the guards salute us. After entering the gate, the road is full of stone blocks that are five hundred years old. Deep palace halls on both sides, spectacularly beautiful. Arrived at the bell tower square of the Apostles' Palace, I parked my car and walked into the Apostles' Palace with my wife in half heels. Guard standing in line with the aisle of the Apostolic Palace, they keep their medieval dress, wearing iron helmets and holding a bench, swords around the waist, uniforms designed by Michelangelo. The captain of the guard gave a message and they saluted our couple.
The Swiss Guard has a historical tradition. The Swiss were employed as guards in the medieval Papal States. On 6 May 1527 Pope Clemont VII was invaded by the troops of the Holy Roman Empire, and the Swiss guards fought bravely, allowing the pope to avoid disaster in the most urgent moment. The 189-man guard died 147 in action. Since then, the Holy See's guards have been recruited to Switzerland, and Switzerland has been very cooperative, providing the Holy See with men of military age, and May 6 every year marks the anniversary of the recruitment of recruits to declare loyalty to the pope.
Walk through the Apostles' Palace and enter the elevator. The waiter in the elevator in tuxedo led us to the Apostolic Hall, Sala Regia, and then a senior leader asked us what country we came from, then handed me and my wife to two chiefs, one who took me to our seat in the diplomatic corps and the other who guided Mrs. Wan to the women's table.
The seats in the diplomatic corps are clearly arranged. Listed according to the order in which the ambassadors submitted their national letters. The seat on the right hand of the pope is 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 in order. Left hand is 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and so on. At a glance, there are about 80 or 90 ambassadors present. The pope's far opposite is the ladies' table. All black dresses, black pressed one piece, about fifty. The first person on the right hand of the pope, the head of the diplomatic mission, is the Ivory Coast 18 years in office. Nine years since our Ambassador arrived in 1978 and sits third on the left hand of the pope, so he is the 6th senior member of the diplomatic corps. Behind each country's ambassadors, seats are lined up according to the country's embassy job. After our Ambassador Zhou, in order, he was Minister Xiang Shizheng, Director Xie Xinping, Second Secretary Wan Jiaxing. Ambassador Zhou is very concerned about his seat and does not want to move forward, every year at this time he looks at how close he is to the head of the team Because our country and most countries have no diplomatic relations, it is inconvenient to be the head of the diplomatic mission. The ambassador the Holy See wants to serve as head of the diplomatic mission is a person acceptable to all countries. When our ambassadors reach the top three, the Holy See is likely to ask for a change of ambassadors. 74 years old, sixth-ranked ambassador of the week, don't want to be replaced. He hopes that "the longer the better" in the ambassador position.
The costumes of ambassadors are colorful. Most of the scene were wearing tuxedo, ambassadors, and ministers mostly with hanging bands. Our Ambassador Zhou, wearing a ribbon medal, and Minister Niang wearing a medal from Vietnam President Mr. Nguyen Wen Shao gave a medal. Staff officer Xie Xinping and I have no medals to hang. Some European ambassadors with royal family, such as Portugal, Denmark, Belgium, Ireland, etc. wear uniform, like 19th century generals, wearing red-brimmed uniforms, wearing a row of medals on the uniform, holding a high cap like a French cavalryman, with a long sword at the waist, and handsome hair. Moroccan ambassador is the first and second senior on the left hand of the pope, wearing white robe white cap white cap white shoes. Indonesian ambassador in grey, black square cap and red cloth towel around his waist. The Iranian ambassador is dressed in a Muslim dress with a white turban on his head. The Pakistani ambassador wore a grey round neck top and pants like a uniform. Being in the hall is like returning to the 18th century court described in the movie. Philippine ambassador, young and talented, is of Chinese descent surname Li, can talk simply in southern language. Singapore ambassador, early 40s, very young. Our Asian neighbors are changing quickly and vibrant.
At 10:59 a.m., the hall was suddenly bright and the whole diplomatic corps stood up and waited for the pope to come. At eleven o'clock the pope entered the hall and sat gracefully in the Holy See. Then the first Ivory Coast ambassador on the right hand of the pope stood up to greet the pope in French on behalf of the entire diplomatic community. He praised the Pope's contribution to world peace and hoped that all countries would work together to promote world peace. Then the pope also spoke in French, and the whole was quiet. The pope speaks of "world peace". This is the theme mentioned every year, this year there is more "terrorism" and suffering people under war, famines, and tyranny. There are still many ambitionists in the world who do not listen to the pope's call and use the people as instruments of selfish desires to wage senseless wars. Finally, the pope wished the people of the world a "Happy New Year" in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean
At the end of the speech, the pope walked down the steps, shook hands with the envoys one by one, wished the New Year, then walked to the ladies' table, and stopped specifically, allowing each lady to shake hands with the This is the moment the ladies are looking forward to, ladies are very happy and ordered to take a photo with the pope. The whole event ended around 12 o'clock.
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Memories 60 to worship the pope
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1. 1. Secretary and couple dressed up
2. The Mrs. Wan pays tribute to the pope
3. 3. Secretary couple and Swiss guard photo
4. 4. 4. Swiss guard, nice uniform, Michelangelo design
5. 5. Guard holding ancient benches on the steps
6. 6. 6. Ambassador Zhou and ambassador of the librarian, thank you staff, secretary Wan
7. The Red circles tag the same photo
8. 8. 8. Mrs. Wan and the Korean secretary wife
9. 9. Ambassador Zhou and the pope
10. 10. Pope John Paul II
「每年的第二個星期六教廷舉辦外交團新年團拜。這是個非常重要的傳統節日，其中過程彷若回到中古世紀。儀式的主題是教宗向全世界人民祝賀新年。教廷和全世界大約190個國家有外交關係，所有各國大使都受邀出席。」
⭐Diplomatic work - birthday to the pope 🌟 Ambassador Wan Jiaxing ️
"The Holy See hosts a diplomatic mission for the New Year on the second Saturday of the year. This is a very important traditional festival in which the process seems to go back to the Middle Ages. The theme of the ceremony is the pope's New Year's greeting to the people of the The Holy See has diplomatic relations with some 190 countries around the world, and all ambassadors are invited to attend. " The "
回憶錄60
向教宗拜年
每年的第二個星期六教廷舉辦外交團新年團拜。這是個非常重要的傳統節日，其中過程彷若回到中古世紀。儀式的主題是教宗向全世界人民祝賀新年。教廷和全世界大約190個國家有外交關係，所有各國大使都受邀出席。
在羅馬的駐教廷大使館約八十多個。其它近百國家的大使館在其它國家，通常是在歐洲國家首都，而派駐教廷為「兼使」。每年此日，很多國家的兼使都會從巴黎倫敦日內瓦等地趕來參加盛會。
大約在每年12月教廷禮賓司發出請帖。請帖上面寫明了舉行日期時間，男士和女士的服裝穿著，停車位置，抵達時間，入座時間，以及請回覆參加人員。這是非常正式的請帖。我就把1987年一月十日我參加的過程向大家介紹。
早晨九點我穿上大禮服。它包括：燕尾服上衣，在羅馬特別服飾店買的禮服專用白襯衫，鑲黑邊黑長褲，白領結，光亮的漆皮皮鞋。我太太全身黑長禮服，頭戴黑紗，耳環胸針是基本配備。穿戴整齊出門碰到社區管理員Marcelo。他眼睛一亮，肅然起敬，向我們夫婦敬禮。
我開車到了當天的活動入口，比爾大門時，前方有一輛賓士轎車插著國旗，應該是某國大使，瑞士衛兵立正敬禮。我們的車是銀灰色富豪，不怎麼起眼，但車牌是CD外交車牌，衛兵也向我們敬禮。進了大門後，全是石塊鋪的道路，這些石塊有五百年歷史。兩旁深宮大殿，壯觀美麗。到了使徒宮的鐘樓廣場，我把車停好，攙扶著穿著半高跟鞋的太太，走進使徒宮。使徒宮走道兩旁衛兵列隊站立，他們保持著中古世紀的打扮，戴著鐵盔手持長戟，腰間配著寶劍，制服是米開朗基羅的設計。衛兵隊長一聲口令，他們向我們夫婦立正敬禮。
瑞士衛兵有歷史傳統。在中世紀教皇國雇用瑞士人當衛兵。1527年5月6日教宗克里蒙七世遭到神聖羅馬帝國的軍隊入侵，瑞士衛兵奮勇抵抗，使得教宗在最緊急時刻，躲開災難。此役189人的衛隊陣亡了147人。此後教廷的衛隊一律向瑞士招募，而瑞士也非常配合，提供教廷適合的兵役年齡男子，每年5月6日就成了新兵入伍宣示效忠教宗的紀念日。
走過使徒宮，進入電梯。電梯中的侍者身穿燕尾服，引領我們到宗座廳，Sala Regia，然後一位資深的領位員問了我們來自那個國家，再把我和太太交給兩位領位員，一位帶著我到外交團我國的席位，另一位引導萬太太到女眷席。
外交團的席位排列明確。按照各國大使呈遞國書的先後順序排列。在教宗的右手邊座位依序是第1，3，5，7，9。左手邊是2，4，6，8，10，以此類推。一眼望去，大約有八九十位大使在座。教宗的遠方正對面，是女士席。全部都是黑禮服，黑壓壓一片，大約五十位。教宗右手邊第一位，也就是外交團團長，是象牙海岸大使。已經任職18年。我國周大使1978年抵任，已經9年，坐在教宗左手方第三位，因此他是外交團第6資深者。在各國大使的後面，依該國使館職銜排座位。我國周大使之後依序是項士揆公使，謝新平參事，萬家興二等秘書。周大使非常關心自己的座位，很不希望向前移動，每年此時他都會看自己的位置離團長多近。因為我國和大多國家沒有邦交，擔任外交團團長會不方便。教廷希望擔任外交團團長的大使，是各國都能接受的人選。當我國大使年資快到前三名，教廷很可能要求更換大使。時年74歲，排名第六的周大使，不希望被換掉。他希望在大使位置「越久越好」。
各國大使的服裝多彩多姿。現場絕大多數穿著燕尾服，大使，公使大多配掛綵帶勳章。我國周大使，配戴彩帶勳章，項公使戴著越南總統阮文紹贈與的一枚勳章，謝新平參事和我沒有勳章可配掛。有些歐洲有王室的老牌國家大使例如葡萄牙，丹麥，比利時，愛爾蘭等國大使穿著戎裝，像是十九世紀的將軍，鑲著紅邊的制服，制服上掛著一排勳章，手持像法國騎兵的高帽，腰間配把長劍，雄姿英發。摩洛哥大使為在教宗左手邊第一位，第二資深，一身白衣白袍白帽白披風白鞋。印尼大使一身灰色服裝，頭戴無邊黑色方帽，腰間繫著紅布巾。伊朗大使一身回教打扮，頭上纏白頭巾。巴基斯坦大使穿著像制服的灰色圓領上裝和長褲。置身大廳彷彿回到電影中描述的十八世紀宮廷。菲律賓大使，年輕有為，是李姓華裔後裔，能簡單閩南語交談。新加坡大使，四十歲出頭，非常年輕。我們的亞洲鄰國大使更換很快，朝氣蓬勃。
十點59分大廳突然大放光明，全體外交團起立，靜待教宗蒞臨。十一時整，教宗進入大廳，優雅地坐在聖座。接著教宗右手邊第一位的象牙海岸大使起立，代表全體外交團以法語向教宗祝賀新年。他讚揚教宗對世界和平的貢獻，希望各國共同努力，促進世界和平。隨後教宗也以法語致詞，全體一片肅靜。教宗提到「世界和平」。這是每年都提到的主題，今年更有「恐怖主義」以及在戰爭，飢荒，苛政之下的苦難人民。世界上仍有許多野心家不聽教宗的呼籲，把人民當作逞遂私欲的工具，進行毫無意義的戰爭。最後教宗用義大利英法德西班牙中日韓等國語言，祝福世界各國人民「新年快樂」。
致詞結束後，教宗走下台階，先和各國使節一一握手，祝賀新年，然後走到女士席，特別停下，允許每位女士和教宗握手合影。這是女士們期待的時刻，女士們很高興，很有秩序地和教宗合影留念。整個活動大約在十二點結束。
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1. 萬秘書夫婦盛裝出席
2. 萬太太向教宗拜年
3. 萬秘書夫婦和瑞士衛兵合影
4. 瑞士衛兵，制服好帥，米開朗基羅設計
5. 台階上手持古代長戟的衛兵
6. 周大使和館員項公使，謝參事，萬秘書
7. 有紅圈標示同一張照片
8. 萬太太與韓國秘書太太
9. 周大使與教宗
10. 教宗若望保祿二世
Memories 60
Celebrating the Pope's Year
On the second Saturday of the year, the Holy See hosts a diplomatic mission for the New Year. This is a very important traditional festival in which the process seems to go back to the Middle Ages. The theme of the ceremony is the pope's New Year's greeting to the people of the The Holy See has diplomatic relations with some 190 countries around the world, and all ambassadors are invited to attend.
There are about 80 embassies in Rome. Nearly a hundred other countries have embassies in other countries, usually in European capitals, and are assigned to the Holy See as "participants". Every year on this day, envoys from many countries come from Paris, London, Geneva and other places to attend the event.
Invitation is sent out by the Holy See concierge around December every year. Invitation notes date and time, men's and women's clothing, parking location, arrival time, seating time, and please reply to attend. This is a very formal invitation. I'll introduce you to the process I participated in on January 10, 1987.
I put on a big dress at 9am. It includes: tuxedo top, white shirt for dress bought at a special clothing store in Rome, black pants with black edges, white bowtie, shiny leather shoes. My wife has a long black dress, black hair, earrings brooch is basic. Going out dressed up and ran into community admin Marcelo. His eyes brightened, and he saluted us couple.
I drove to the entrance of the day's event, Bill Gate, and there was a Mercedes brakes in front of me with the national flag, supposed to be the ambassador of a certain country, the Swiss guard saluted. Our car is silver grey rich, not much eye-catching, but the license plate is CD diplomatic license plate, and the guards salute us. After entering the gate, the road is full of stone blocks that are five hundred years old. Deep palace halls on both sides, spectacularly beautiful. Arrived at the bell tower square of the Apostles' Palace, I parked my car and walked into the Apostles' Palace with my wife in half heels. Guard standing in line with the aisle of the Apostolic Palace, they keep their medieval dress, wearing iron helmets and holding a bench, swords around the waist, uniforms designed by Michelangelo. The captain of the guard gave a message and they saluted our couple.
The Swiss Guard has a historical tradition. The Swiss were employed as guards in the medieval Papal States. On 6 May 1527 Pope Clemont VII was invaded by the troops of the Holy Roman Empire, and the Swiss guards fought bravely, allowing the pope to avoid disaster in the most urgent moment. The 189-man guard died 147 in action. Since then, the Holy See's guards have been recruited to Switzerland, and Switzerland has been very cooperative, providing the Holy See with men of military age, and May 6 every year marks the anniversary of the recruitment of recruits to declare loyalty to the pope.
Walk through the Apostles' Palace and enter the elevator. The waiter in the elevator in tuxedo led us to the Apostolic Hall, Sala Regia, and then a senior leader asked us what country we came from, then handed me and my wife to two chiefs, one who took me to our seat in the diplomatic corps and the other who guided Mrs. Wan to the women's table.
The seats in the diplomatic corps are clearly arranged. Listed according to the order in which the ambassadors submitted their national letters. The seat on the right hand of the pope is 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 in order. Left hand is 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and so on. At a glance, there are about 80 or 90 ambassadors present. The pope's far opposite is the ladies' table. All black dresses, black pressed one piece, about fifty. The first person on the right hand of the pope, the head of the diplomatic mission, is the Ivory Coast 18 years in office. Nine years since our Ambassador arrived in 1978 and sits third on the left hand of the pope, so he is the 6th senior member of the diplomatic corps. Behind each country's ambassadors, seats are lined up according to the country's embassy job. After our Ambassador Zhou, in order, he was Minister Xiang Shizheng, Director Xie Xinping, Second Secretary Wan Jiaxing. Ambassador Zhou is very concerned about his seat and does not want to move forward, every year at this time he looks at how close he is to the head of the team Because our country and most countries have no diplomatic relations, it is inconvenient to be the head of the diplomatic mission. The ambassador the Holy See wants to serve as head of the diplomatic mission is a person acceptable to all countries. When our ambassadors reach the top three, the Holy See is likely to ask for a change of ambassadors. 74 years old, sixth-ranked ambassador of the week, don't want to be replaced. He hopes that "the longer the better" in the ambassador position.
The costumes of ambassadors are colorful. Most of the scene were wearing tuxedo, ambassadors, and ministers mostly with hanging bands. Our Ambassador Zhou, wearing a ribbon medal, and Minister Niang wearing a medal from Vietnam President Mr. Nguyen Wen Shao gave a medal. Staff officer Xie Xinping and I have no medals to hang. Some European ambassadors with royal family, such as Portugal, Denmark, Belgium, Ireland, etc. wear uniform, like 19th century generals, wearing red-brimmed uniforms, wearing a row of medals on the uniform, holding a high cap like a French cavalryman, with a long sword at the waist, and handsome hair. Moroccan ambassador is the first and second senior on the left hand of the pope, wearing white robe white cap white cap white shoes. Indonesian ambassador in grey, black square cap and red cloth towel around his waist. The Iranian ambassador is dressed in a Muslim dress with a white turban on his head. The Pakistani ambassador wore a grey round neck top and pants like a uniform. Being in the hall is like returning to the 18th century court described in the movie. Philippine ambassador, young and talented, is of Chinese descent surname Li, can talk simply in southern language. Singapore ambassador, early 40s, very young. Our Asian neighbors are changing quickly and vibrant.
At 10:59 a.m., the hall was suddenly bright and the whole diplomatic corps stood up and waited for the pope to come. At eleven o'clock the pope entered the hall and sat gracefully in the Holy See. Then the first Ivory Coast ambassador on the right hand of the pope stood up to greet the pope in French on behalf of the entire diplomatic community. He praised the Pope's contribution to world peace and hoped that all countries would work together to promote world peace. Then the pope also spoke in French, and the whole was quiet. The pope speaks of "world peace". This is the theme mentioned every year, this year there is more "terrorism" and suffering people under war, famines, and tyranny. There are still many ambitionists in the world who do not listen to the pope's call and use the people as instruments of selfish desires to wage senseless wars. Finally, the pope wished the people of the world a "Happy New Year" in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean
At the end of the speech, the pope walked down the steps, shook hands with the envoys one by one, wished the New Year, then walked to the ladies' table, and stopped specifically, allowing each lady to shake hands with the This is the moment the ladies are looking forward to, ladies are very happy and ordered to take a photo with the pope. The whole event ended around 12 o'clock.
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1. 1. Secretary and couple dressed up
2. The Mrs. Wan pays tribute to the pope
3. 3. Secretary couple and Swiss guard photo
4. 4. 4. Swiss guard, nice uniform, Michelangelo design
5. 5. Guard holding ancient benches on the steps
6. 6. 6. Ambassador Zhou and ambassador of the librarian, thank you staff, secretary Wan
7. The Red circles tag the same photo
8. 8. 8. Mrs. Wan and the Korean secretary wife
9. 9. Ambassador Zhou and the pope
10. 10. Pope John Paul II
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⭐️外交工作- 向教宗拜年🌟 萬家興大使⭐️
「每年的第二個星期六教廷舉辦外交團新年團拜。這是個非常重要的傳統節日，其中過程彷若回到中古世紀。儀式的主題是教宗向全世界人民祝賀新年。教廷和全世界大約190個國家有外交關係，所有各國大使都受邀出席。」
⭐Diplomatic work - birthday to the pope 🌟 Ambassador Wan Jiaxing ️
"The Holy See hosts a diplomatic mission for the New Year on the second Saturday of the year. This is a very important traditional festival in which the process seems to go back to the Middle Ages. The theme of the ceremony is the pope's New Year's greeting to the people of the The Holy See has diplomatic relations with some 190 countries around the world, and all ambassadors are invited to attend. " The "
回憶錄60
向教宗拜年
每年的第二個星期六教廷舉辦外交團新年團拜。這是個非常重要的傳統節日，其中過程彷若回到中古世紀。儀式的主題是教宗向全世界人民祝賀新年。教廷和全世界大約190個國家有外交關係，所有各國大使都受邀出席。
在羅馬的駐教廷大使館約八十多個。其它近百國家的大使館在其它國家，通常是在歐洲國家首都，而派駐教廷為「兼使」。每年此日，很多國家的兼使都會從巴黎倫敦日內瓦等地趕來參加盛會。
大約在每年12月教廷禮賓司發出請帖。請帖上面寫明了舉行日期時間，男士和女士的服裝穿著，停車位置，抵達時間，入座時間，以及請回覆參加人員。這是非常正式的請帖。我就把1987年一月十日我參加的過程向大家介紹。
早晨九點我穿上大禮服。它包括：燕尾服上衣，在羅馬特別服飾店買的禮服專用白襯衫，鑲黑邊黑長褲，白領結，光亮的漆皮皮鞋。我太太全身黑長禮服，頭戴黑紗，耳環胸針是基本配備。穿戴整齊出門碰到社區管理員Marcelo。他眼睛一亮，肅然起敬，向我們夫婦敬禮。
我開車到了當天的活動入口，比爾大門時，前方有一輛賓士轎車插著國旗，應該是某國大使，瑞士衛兵立正敬禮。我們的車是銀灰色富豪，不怎麼起眼，但車牌是CD外交車牌，衛兵也向我們敬禮。進了大門後，全是石塊鋪的道路，這些石塊有五百年歷史。兩旁深宮大殿，壯觀美麗。到了使徒宮的鐘樓廣場，我把車停好，攙扶著穿著半高跟鞋的太太，走進使徒宮。使徒宮走道兩旁衛兵列隊站立，他們保持著中古世紀的打扮，戴著鐵盔手持長戟，腰間配著寶劍，制服是米開朗基羅的設計。衛兵隊長一聲口令，他們向我們夫婦立正敬禮。
瑞士衛兵有歷史傳統。在中世紀教皇國雇用瑞士人當衛兵。1527年5月6日教宗克里蒙七世遭到神聖羅馬帝國的軍隊入侵，瑞士衛兵奮勇抵抗，使得教宗在最緊急時刻，躲開災難。此役189人的衛隊陣亡了147人。此後教廷的衛隊一律向瑞士招募，而瑞士也非常配合，提供教廷適合的兵役年齡男子，每年5月6日就成了新兵入伍宣示效忠教宗的紀念日。
走過使徒宮，進入電梯。電梯中的侍者身穿燕尾服，引領我們到宗座廳，Sala Regia，然後一位資深的領位員問了我們來自那個國家，再把我和太太交給兩位領位員，一位帶著我到外交團我國的席位，另一位引導萬太太到女眷席。
外交團的席位排列明確。按照各國大使呈遞國書的先後順序排列。在教宗的右手邊座位依序是第1，3，5，7，9。左手邊是2，4，6，8，10，以此類推。一眼望去，大約有八九十位大使在座。教宗的遠方正對面，是女士席。全部都是黑禮服，黑壓壓一片，大約五十位。教宗右手邊第一位，也就是外交團團長，是象牙海岸大使。已經任職18年。我國周大使1978年抵任，已經9年，坐在教宗左手方第三位，因此他是外交團第6資深者。在各國大使的後面，依該國使館職銜排座位。我國周大使之後依序是項士揆公使，謝新平參事，萬家興二等秘書。周大使非常關心自己的座位，很不希望向前移動，每年此時他都會看自己的位置離團長多近。因為我國和大多國家沒有邦交，擔任外交團團長會不方便。教廷希望擔任外交團團長的大使，是各國都能接受的人選。當我國大使年資快到前三名，教廷很可能要求更換大使。時年74歲，排名第六的周大使，不希望被換掉。他希望在大使位置「越久越好」。
各國大使的服裝多彩多姿。現場絕大多數穿著燕尾服，大使，公使大多配掛綵帶勳章。我國周大使，配戴彩帶勳章，項公使戴著越南總統阮文紹贈與的一枚勳章，謝新平參事和我沒有勳章可配掛。有些歐洲有王室的老牌國家大使例如葡萄牙，丹麥，比利時，愛爾蘭等國大使穿著戎裝，像是十九世紀的將軍，鑲著紅邊的制服，制服上掛著一排勳章，手持像法國騎兵的高帽，腰間配把長劍，雄姿英發。摩洛哥大使為在教宗左手邊第一位，第二資深，一身白衣白袍白帽白披風白鞋。印尼大使一身灰色服裝，頭戴無邊黑色方帽，腰間繫著紅布巾。伊朗大使一身回教打扮，頭上纏白頭巾。巴基斯坦大使穿著像制服的灰色圓領上裝和長褲。置身大廳彷彿回到電影中描述的十八世紀宮廷。菲律賓大使，年輕有為，是李姓華裔後裔，能簡單閩南語交談。新加坡大使，四十歲出頭，非常年輕。我們的亞洲鄰國大使更換很快，朝氣蓬勃。
十點59分大廳突然大放光明，全體外交團起立，靜待教宗蒞臨。十一時整，教宗進入大廳，優雅地坐在聖座。接著教宗右手邊第一位的象牙海岸大使起立，代表全體外交團以法語向教宗祝賀新年。他讚揚教宗對世界和平的貢獻，希望各國共同努力，促進世界和平。隨後教宗也以法語致詞，全體一片肅靜。教宗提到「世界和平」。這是每年都提到的主題，今年更有「恐怖主義」以及在戰爭，飢荒，苛政之下的苦難人民。世界上仍有許多野心家不聽教宗的呼籲，把人民當作逞遂私欲的工具，進行毫無意義的戰爭。最後教宗用義大利英法德西班牙中日韓等國語言，祝福世界各國人民「新年快樂」。
致詞結束後，教宗走下台階，先和各國使節一一握手，祝賀新年，然後走到女士席，特別停下，允許每位女士和教宗握手合影。這是女士們期待的時刻，女士們很高興，很有秩序地和教宗合影留念。整個活動大約在十二點結束。
回憶錄60 向教宗拜年
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回憶錄60 向教宗拜年
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1. 萬秘書夫婦盛裝出席
2. 萬太太向教宗拜年
3. 萬秘書夫婦和瑞士衛兵合影
4. 瑞士衛兵，制服好帥，米開朗基羅設計
5. 台階上手持古代長戟的衛兵
6. 周大使和館員項公使，謝參事，萬秘書
7. 有紅圈標示同一張照片
8. 萬太太與韓國秘書太太
9. 周大使與教宗
10. 教宗若望保祿二世
Memories 60
Celebrating the Pope's Year
On the second Saturday of the year, the Holy See hosts a diplomatic mission for the New Year. This is a very important traditional festival in which the process seems to go back to the Middle Ages. The theme of the ceremony is the pope's New Year's greeting to the people of the The Holy See has diplomatic relations with some 190 countries around the world, and all ambassadors are invited to attend.
There are about 80 embassies in Rome. Nearly a hundred other countries have embassies in other countries, usually in European capitals, and are assigned to the Holy See as "participants". Every year on this day, envoys from many countries come from Paris, London, Geneva and other places to attend the event.
Invitation is sent out by the Holy See concierge around December every year. Invitation notes date and time, men's and women's clothing, parking location, arrival time, seating time, and please reply to attend. This is a very formal invitation. I'll introduce you to the process I participated in on January 10, 1987.
I put on a big dress at 9am. It includes: tuxedo top, white shirt for dress bought at a special clothing store in Rome, black pants with black edges, white bowtie, shiny leather shoes. My wife has a long black dress, black hair, earrings brooch is basic. Going out dressed up and ran into community admin Marcelo. His eyes brightened, and he saluted us couple.
I drove to the entrance of the day's event, Bill Gate, and there was a Mercedes brakes in front of me with the national flag, supposed to be the ambassador of a certain country, the Swiss guard saluted. Our car is silver grey rich, not much eye-catching, but the license plate is CD diplomatic license plate, and the guards salute us. After entering the gate, the road is full of stone blocks that are five hundred years old. Deep palace halls on both sides, spectacularly beautiful. Arrived at the bell tower square of the Apostles' Palace, I parked my car and walked into the Apostles' Palace with my wife in half heels. Guard standing in line with the aisle of the Apostolic Palace, they keep their medieval dress, wearing iron helmets and holding a bench, swords around the waist, uniforms designed by Michelangelo. The captain of the guard gave a message and they saluted our couple.
The Swiss Guard has a historical tradition. The Swiss were employed as guards in the medieval Papal States. On 6 May 1527 Pope Clemont VII was invaded by the troops of the Holy Roman Empire, and the Swiss guards fought bravely, allowing the pope to avoid disaster in the most urgent moment. The 189-man guard died 147 in action. Since then, the Holy See's guards have been recruited to Switzerland, and Switzerland has been very cooperative, providing the Holy See with men of military age, and May 6 every year marks the anniversary of the recruitment of recruits to declare loyalty to the pope.
Walk through the Apostles' Palace and enter the elevator. The waiter in the elevator in tuxedo led us to the Apostolic Hall, Sala Regia, and then a senior leader asked us what country we came from, then handed me and my wife to two chiefs, one who took me to our seat in the diplomatic corps and the other who guided Mrs. Wan to the women's table.
The seats in the diplomatic corps are clearly arranged. Listed according to the order in which the ambassadors submitted their national letters. The seat on the right hand of the pope is 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 in order. Left hand is 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and so on. At a glance, there are about 80 or 90 ambassadors present. The pope's far opposite is the ladies' table. All black dresses, black pressed one piece, about fifty. The first person on the right hand of the pope, the head of the diplomatic mission, is the Ivory Coast 18 years in office. Nine years since our Ambassador arrived in 1978 and sits third on the left hand of the pope, so he is the 6th senior member of the diplomatic corps. Behind each country's ambassadors, seats are lined up according to the country's embassy job. After our Ambassador Zhou, in order, he was Minister Xiang Shizheng, Director Xie Xinping, Second Secretary Wan Jiaxing. Ambassador Zhou is very concerned about his seat and does not want to move forward, every year at this time he looks at how close he is to the head of the team Because our country and most countries have no diplomatic relations, it is inconvenient to be the head of the diplomatic mission. The ambassador the Holy See wants to serve as head of the diplomatic mission is a person acceptable to all countries. When our ambassadors reach the top three, the Holy See is likely to ask for a change of ambassadors. 74 years old, sixth-ranked ambassador of the week, don't want to be replaced. He hopes that "the longer the better" in the ambassador position.
The costumes of ambassadors are colorful. Most of the scene were wearing tuxedo, ambassadors, and ministers mostly with hanging bands. Our Ambassador Zhou, wearing a ribbon medal, and Minister Niang wearing a medal from Vietnam President Mr. Nguyen Wen Shao gave a medal. Staff officer Xie Xinping and I have no medals to hang. Some European ambassadors with royal family, such as Portugal, Denmark, Belgium, Ireland, etc. wear uniform, like 19th century generals, wearing red-brimmed uniforms, wearing a row of medals on the uniform, holding a high cap like a French cavalryman, with a long sword at the waist, and handsome hair. Moroccan ambassador is the first and second senior on the left hand of the pope, wearing white robe white cap white cap white shoes. Indonesian ambassador in grey, black square cap and red cloth towel around his waist. The Iranian ambassador is dressed in a Muslim dress with a white turban on his head. The Pakistani ambassador wore a grey round neck top and pants like a uniform. Being in the hall is like returning to the 18th century court described in the movie. Philippine ambassador, young and talented, is of Chinese descent surname Li, can talk simply in southern language. Singapore ambassador, early 40s, very young. Our Asian neighbors are changing quickly and vibrant.
At 10:59 a.m., the hall was suddenly bright and the whole diplomatic corps stood up and waited for the pope to come. At eleven o'clock the pope entered the hall and sat gracefully in the Holy See. Then the first Ivory Coast ambassador on the right hand of the pope stood up to greet the pope in French on behalf of the entire diplomatic community. He praised the Pope's contribution to world peace and hoped that all countries would work together to promote world peace. Then the pope also spoke in French, and the whole was quiet. The pope speaks of "world peace". This is the theme mentioned every year, this year there is more "terrorism" and suffering people under war, famines, and tyranny. There are still many ambitionists in the world who do not listen to the pope's call and use the people as instruments of selfish desires to wage senseless wars. Finally, the pope wished the people of the world a "Happy New Year" in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean
At the end of the speech, the pope walked down the steps, shook hands with the envoys one by one, wished the New Year, then walked to the ladies' table, and stopped specifically, allowing each lady to shake hands with the This is the moment the ladies are looking forward to, ladies are very happy and ordered to take a photo with the pope. The whole event ended around 12 o'clock.
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1. 1. Secretary and couple dressed up
2. The Mrs. Wan pays tribute to the pope
3. 3. Secretary couple and Swiss guard photo
4. 4. 4. Swiss guard, nice uniform, Michelangelo design
5. 5. Guard holding ancient benches on the steps
6. 6. 6. Ambassador Zhou and ambassador of the librarian, thank you staff, secretary Wan
7. The Red circles tag the same photo
8. 8. 8. Mrs. Wan and the Korean secretary wife
9. 9. Ambassador Zhou and the pope
10. 10. Pope John Paul II
「每年的第二個星期六教廷舉辦外交團新年團拜。這是個非常重要的傳統節日，其中過程彷若回到中古世紀。儀式的主題是教宗向全世界人民祝賀新年。教廷和全世界大約190個國家有外交關係，所有各國大使都受邀出席。」
⭐Diplomatic work - birthday to the pope 🌟 Ambassador Wan Jiaxing ️
"The Holy See hosts a diplomatic mission for the New Year on the second Saturday of the year. This is a very important traditional festival in which the process seems to go back to the Middle Ages. The theme of the ceremony is the pope's New Year's greeting to the people of the The Holy See has diplomatic relations with some 190 countries around the world, and all ambassadors are invited to attend. " The "
回憶錄60
向教宗拜年
每年的第二個星期六教廷舉辦外交團新年團拜。這是個非常重要的傳統節日，其中過程彷若回到中古世紀。儀式的主題是教宗向全世界人民祝賀新年。教廷和全世界大約190個國家有外交關係，所有各國大使都受邀出席。
在羅馬的駐教廷大使館約八十多個。其它近百國家的大使館在其它國家，通常是在歐洲國家首都，而派駐教廷為「兼使」。每年此日，很多國家的兼使都會從巴黎倫敦日內瓦等地趕來參加盛會。
大約在每年12月教廷禮賓司發出請帖。請帖上面寫明了舉行日期時間，男士和女士的服裝穿著，停車位置，抵達時間，入座時間，以及請回覆參加人員。這是非常正式的請帖。我就把1987年一月十日我參加的過程向大家介紹。
早晨九點我穿上大禮服。它包括：燕尾服上衣，在羅馬特別服飾店買的禮服專用白襯衫，鑲黑邊黑長褲，白領結，光亮的漆皮皮鞋。我太太全身黑長禮服，頭戴黑紗，耳環胸針是基本配備。穿戴整齊出門碰到社區管理員Marcelo。他眼睛一亮，肅然起敬，向我們夫婦敬禮。
我開車到了當天的活動入口，比爾大門時，前方有一輛賓士轎車插著國旗，應該是某國大使，瑞士衛兵立正敬禮。我們的車是銀灰色富豪，不怎麼起眼，但車牌是CD外交車牌，衛兵也向我們敬禮。進了大門後，全是石塊鋪的道路，這些石塊有五百年歷史。兩旁深宮大殿，壯觀美麗。到了使徒宮的鐘樓廣場，我把車停好，攙扶著穿著半高跟鞋的太太，走進使徒宮。使徒宮走道兩旁衛兵列隊站立，他們保持著中古世紀的打扮，戴著鐵盔手持長戟，腰間配著寶劍，制服是米開朗基羅的設計。衛兵隊長一聲口令，他們向我們夫婦立正敬禮。
瑞士衛兵有歷史傳統。在中世紀教皇國雇用瑞士人當衛兵。1527年5月6日教宗克里蒙七世遭到神聖羅馬帝國的軍隊入侵，瑞士衛兵奮勇抵抗，使得教宗在最緊急時刻，躲開災難。此役189人的衛隊陣亡了147人。此後教廷的衛隊一律向瑞士招募，而瑞士也非常配合，提供教廷適合的兵役年齡男子，每年5月6日就成了新兵入伍宣示效忠教宗的紀念日。
走過使徒宮，進入電梯。電梯中的侍者身穿燕尾服，引領我們到宗座廳，Sala Regia，然後一位資深的領位員問了我們來自那個國家，再把我和太太交給兩位領位員，一位帶著我到外交團我國的席位，另一位引導萬太太到女眷席。
外交團的席位排列明確。按照各國大使呈遞國書的先後順序排列。在教宗的右手邊座位依序是第1，3，5，7，9。左手邊是2，4，6，8，10，以此類推。一眼望去，大約有八九十位大使在座。教宗的遠方正對面，是女士席。全部都是黑禮服，黑壓壓一片，大約五十位。教宗右手邊第一位，也就是外交團團長，是象牙海岸大使。已經任職18年。我國周大使1978年抵任，已經9年，坐在教宗左手方第三位，因此他是外交團第6資深者。在各國大使的後面，依該國使館職銜排座位。我國周大使之後依序是項士揆公使，謝新平參事，萬家興二等秘書。周大使非常關心自己的座位，很不希望向前移動，每年此時他都會看自己的位置離團長多近。因為我國和大多國家沒有邦交，擔任外交團團長會不方便。教廷希望擔任外交團團長的大使，是各國都能接受的人選。當我國大使年資快到前三名，教廷很可能要求更換大使。時年74歲，排名第六的周大使，不希望被換掉。他希望在大使位置「越久越好」。
各國大使的服裝多彩多姿。現場絕大多數穿著燕尾服，大使，公使大多配掛綵帶勳章。我國周大使，配戴彩帶勳章，項公使戴著越南總統阮文紹贈與的一枚勳章，謝新平參事和我沒有勳章可配掛。有些歐洲有王室的老牌國家大使例如葡萄牙，丹麥，比利時，愛爾蘭等國大使穿著戎裝，像是十九世紀的將軍，鑲著紅邊的制服，制服上掛著一排勳章，手持像法國騎兵的高帽，腰間配把長劍，雄姿英發。摩洛哥大使為在教宗左手邊第一位，第二資深，一身白衣白袍白帽白披風白鞋。印尼大使一身灰色服裝，頭戴無邊黑色方帽，腰間繫著紅布巾。伊朗大使一身回教打扮，頭上纏白頭巾。巴基斯坦大使穿著像制服的灰色圓領上裝和長褲。置身大廳彷彿回到電影中描述的十八世紀宮廷。菲律賓大使，年輕有為，是李姓華裔後裔，能簡單閩南語交談。新加坡大使，四十歲出頭，非常年輕。我們的亞洲鄰國大使更換很快，朝氣蓬勃。
十點59分大廳突然大放光明，全體外交團起立，靜待教宗蒞臨。十一時整，教宗進入大廳，優雅地坐在聖座。接著教宗右手邊第一位的象牙海岸大使起立，代表全體外交團以法語向教宗祝賀新年。他讚揚教宗對世界和平的貢獻，希望各國共同努力，促進世界和平。隨後教宗也以法語致詞，全體一片肅靜。教宗提到「世界和平」。這是每年都提到的主題，今年更有「恐怖主義」以及在戰爭，飢荒，苛政之下的苦難人民。世界上仍有許多野心家不聽教宗的呼籲，把人民當作逞遂私欲的工具，進行毫無意義的戰爭。最後教宗用義大利英法德西班牙中日韓等國語言，祝福世界各國人民「新年快樂」。
致詞結束後，教宗走下台階，先和各國使節一一握手，祝賀新年，然後走到女士席，特別停下，允許每位女士和教宗握手合影。這是女士們期待的時刻，女士們很高興，很有秩序地和教宗合影留念。整個活動大約在十二點結束。
回憶錄60 向教宗拜年
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1. 萬秘書夫婦盛裝出席
2. 萬太太向教宗拜年
3. 萬秘書夫婦和瑞士衛兵合影
4. 瑞士衛兵，制服好帥，米開朗基羅設計
5. 台階上手持古代長戟的衛兵
6. 周大使和館員項公使，謝參事，萬秘書
7. 有紅圈標示同一張照片
8. 萬太太與韓國秘書太太
9. 周大使與教宗
10. 教宗若望保祿二世
Memories 60
Celebrating the Pope's Year
On the second Saturday of the year, the Holy See hosts a diplomatic mission for the New Year. This is a very important traditional festival in which the process seems to go back to the Middle Ages. The theme of the ceremony is the pope's New Year's greeting to the people of the The Holy See has diplomatic relations with some 190 countries around the world, and all ambassadors are invited to attend.
There are about 80 embassies in Rome. Nearly a hundred other countries have embassies in other countries, usually in European capitals, and are assigned to the Holy See as "participants". Every year on this day, envoys from many countries come from Paris, London, Geneva and other places to attend the event.
Invitation is sent out by the Holy See concierge around December every year. Invitation notes date and time, men's and women's clothing, parking location, arrival time, seating time, and please reply to attend. This is a very formal invitation. I'll introduce you to the process I participated in on January 10, 1987.
I put on a big dress at 9am. It includes: tuxedo top, white shirt for dress bought at a special clothing store in Rome, black pants with black edges, white bowtie, shiny leather shoes. My wife has a long black dress, black hair, earrings brooch is basic. Going out dressed up and ran into community admin Marcelo. His eyes brightened, and he saluted us couple.
I drove to the entrance of the day's event, Bill Gate, and there was a Mercedes brakes in front of me with the national flag, supposed to be the ambassador of a certain country, the Swiss guard saluted. Our car is silver grey rich, not much eye-catching, but the license plate is CD diplomatic license plate, and the guards salute us. After entering the gate, the road is full of stone blocks that are five hundred years old. Deep palace halls on both sides, spectacularly beautiful. Arrived at the bell tower square of the Apostles' Palace, I parked my car and walked into the Apostles' Palace with my wife in half heels. Guard standing in line with the aisle of the Apostolic Palace, they keep their medieval dress, wearing iron helmets and holding a bench, swords around the waist, uniforms designed by Michelangelo. The captain of the guard gave a message and they saluted our couple.
The Swiss Guard has a historical tradition. The Swiss were employed as guards in the medieval Papal States. On 6 May 1527 Pope Clemont VII was invaded by the troops of the Holy Roman Empire, and the Swiss guards fought bravely, allowing the pope to avoid disaster in the most urgent moment. The 189-man guard died 147 in action. Since then, the Holy See's guards have been recruited to Switzerland, and Switzerland has been very cooperative, providing the Holy See with men of military age, and May 6 every year marks the anniversary of the recruitment of recruits to declare loyalty to the pope.
Walk through the Apostles' Palace and enter the elevator. The waiter in the elevator in tuxedo led us to the Apostolic Hall, Sala Regia, and then a senior leader asked us what country we came from, then handed me and my wife to two chiefs, one who took me to our seat in the diplomatic corps and the other who guided Mrs. Wan to the women's table.
The seats in the diplomatic corps are clearly arranged. Listed according to the order in which the ambassadors submitted their national letters. The seat on the right hand of the pope is 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 in order. Left hand is 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and so on. At a glance, there are about 80 or 90 ambassadors present. The pope's far opposite is the ladies' table. All black dresses, black pressed one piece, about fifty. The first person on the right hand of the pope, the head of the diplomatic mission, is the Ivory Coast 18 years in office. Nine years since our Ambassador arrived in 1978 and sits third on the left hand of the pope, so he is the 6th senior member of the diplomatic corps. Behind each country's ambassadors, seats are lined up according to the country's embassy job. After our Ambassador Zhou, in order, he was Minister Xiang Shizheng, Director Xie Xinping, Second Secretary Wan Jiaxing. Ambassador Zhou is very concerned about his seat and does not want to move forward, every year at this time he looks at how close he is to the head of the team Because our country and most countries have no diplomatic relations, it is inconvenient to be the head of the diplomatic mission. The ambassador the Holy See wants to serve as head of the diplomatic mission is a person acceptable to all countries. When our ambassadors reach the top three, the Holy See is likely to ask for a change of ambassadors. 74 years old, sixth-ranked ambassador of the week, don't want to be replaced. He hopes that "the longer the better" in the ambassador position.
The costumes of ambassadors are colorful. Most of the scene were wearing tuxedo, ambassadors, and ministers mostly with hanging bands. Our Ambassador Zhou, wearing a ribbon medal, and Minister Niang wearing a medal from Vietnam President Mr. Nguyen Wen Shao gave a medal. Staff officer Xie Xinping and I have no medals to hang. Some European ambassadors with royal family, such as Portugal, Denmark, Belgium, Ireland, etc. wear uniform, like 19th century generals, wearing red-brimmed uniforms, wearing a row of medals on the uniform, holding a high cap like a French cavalryman, with a long sword at the waist, and handsome hair. Moroccan ambassador is the first and second senior on the left hand of the pope, wearing white robe white cap white cap white shoes. Indonesian ambassador in grey, black square cap and red cloth towel around his waist. The Iranian ambassador is dressed in a Muslim dress with a white turban on his head. The Pakistani ambassador wore a grey round neck top and pants like a uniform. Being in the hall is like returning to the 18th century court described in the movie. Philippine ambassador, young and talented, is of Chinese descent surname Li, can talk simply in southern language. Singapore ambassador, early 40s, very young. Our Asian neighbors are changing quickly and vibrant.
At 10:59 a.m., the hall was suddenly bright and the whole diplomatic corps stood up and waited for the pope to come. At eleven o'clock the pope entered the hall and sat gracefully in the Holy See. Then the first Ivory Coast ambassador on the right hand of the pope stood up to greet the pope in French on behalf of the entire diplomatic community. He praised the Pope's contribution to world peace and hoped that all countries would work together to promote world peace. Then the pope also spoke in French, and the whole was quiet. The pope speaks of "world peace". This is the theme mentioned every year, this year there is more "terrorism" and suffering people under war, famines, and tyranny. There are still many ambitionists in the world who do not listen to the pope's call and use the people as instruments of selfish desires to wage senseless wars. Finally, the pope wished the people of the world a "Happy New Year" in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean
At the end of the speech, the pope walked down the steps, shook hands with the envoys one by one, wished the New Year, then walked to the ladies' table, and stopped specifically, allowing each lady to shake hands with the This is the moment the ladies are looking forward to, ladies are very happy and ordered to take a photo with the pope. The whole event ended around 12 o'clock.
Memories 60 to worship the pope
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Photo caption: Post date 2021.08.12
1. 1. Secretary and couple dressed up
2. The Mrs. Wan pays tribute to the pope
3. 3. Secretary couple and Swiss guard photo
4. 4. 4. Swiss guard, nice uniform, Michelangelo design
5. 5. Guard holding ancient benches on the steps
6. 6. 6. Ambassador Zhou and ambassador of the librarian, thank you staff, secretary Wan
7. The Red circles tag the same photo
8. 8. 8. Mrs. Wan and the Korean secretary wife
9. 9. Ambassador Zhou and the pope
10. 10. Pope John Paul II
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⭐️外交工作- 向教宗拜年🌟 萬家興大使⭐️
「每年的第二個星期六教廷舉辦外交團新年團拜。這是個非常重要的傳統節日，其中過程彷若回到中古世紀。儀式的主題是教宗向全世界人民祝賀新年。教廷和全世界大約190個國家有外交關係，所有各國大使都受邀出席。」
⭐Diplomatic work - birthday to the pope 🌟 Ambassador Wan Jiaxing ️
"The Holy See hosts a diplomatic mission for the New Year on the second Saturday of the year. This is a very important traditional festival in which the process seems to go back to the Middle Ages. The theme of the ceremony is the pope's New Year's greeting to the people of the The Holy See has diplomatic relations with some 190 countries around the world, and all ambassadors are invited to attend. " The "
回憶錄60
向教宗拜年
每年的第二個星期六教廷舉辦外交團新年團拜。這是個非常重要的傳統節日，其中過程彷若回到中古世紀。儀式的主題是教宗向全世界人民祝賀新年。教廷和全世界大約190個國家有外交關係，所有各國大使都受邀出席。
在羅馬的駐教廷大使館約八十多個。其它近百國家的大使館在其它國家，通常是在歐洲國家首都，而派駐教廷為「兼使」。每年此日，很多國家的兼使都會從巴黎倫敦日內瓦等地趕來參加盛會。
大約在每年12月教廷禮賓司發出請帖。請帖上面寫明了舉行日期時間，男士和女士的服裝穿著，停車位置，抵達時間，入座時間，以及請回覆參加人員。這是非常正式的請帖。我就把1987年一月十日我參加的過程向大家介紹。
早晨九點我穿上大禮服。它包括：燕尾服上衣，在羅馬特別服飾店買的禮服專用白襯衫，鑲黑邊黑長褲，白領結，光亮的漆皮皮鞋。我太太全身黑長禮服，頭戴黑紗，耳環胸針是基本配備。穿戴整齊出門碰到社區管理員Marcelo。他眼睛一亮，肅然起敬，向我們夫婦敬禮。
我開車到了當天的活動入口，比爾大門時，前方有一輛賓士轎車插著國旗，應該是某國大使，瑞士衛兵立正敬禮。我們的車是銀灰色富豪，不怎麼起眼，但車牌是CD外交車牌，衛兵也向我們敬禮。進了大門後，全是石塊鋪的道路，這些石塊有五百年歷史。兩旁深宮大殿，壯觀美麗。到了使徒宮的鐘樓廣場，我把車停好，攙扶著穿著半高跟鞋的太太，走進使徒宮。使徒宮走道兩旁衛兵列隊站立，他們保持著中古世紀的打扮，戴著鐵盔手持長戟，腰間配著寶劍，制服是米開朗基羅的設計。衛兵隊長一聲口令，他們向我們夫婦立正敬禮。
瑞士衛兵有歷史傳統。在中世紀教皇國雇用瑞士人當衛兵。1527年5月6日教宗克里蒙七世遭到神聖羅馬帝國的軍隊入侵，瑞士衛兵奮勇抵抗，使得教宗在最緊急時刻，躲開災難。此役189人的衛隊陣亡了147人。此後教廷的衛隊一律向瑞士招募，而瑞士也非常配合，提供教廷適合的兵役年齡男子，每年5月6日就成了新兵入伍宣示效忠教宗的紀念日。
走過使徒宮，進入電梯。電梯中的侍者身穿燕尾服，引領我們到宗座廳，Sala Regia，然後一位資深的領位員問了我們來自那個國家，再把我和太太交給兩位領位員，一位帶著我到外交團我國的席位，另一位引導萬太太到女眷席。
外交團的席位排列明確。按照各國大使呈遞國書的先後順序排列。在教宗的右手邊座位依序是第1，3，5，7，9。左手邊是2，4，6，8，10，以此類推。一眼望去，大約有八九十位大使在座。教宗的遠方正對面，是女士席。全部都是黑禮服，黑壓壓一片，大約五十位。教宗右手邊第一位，也就是外交團團長，是象牙海岸大使。已經任職18年。我國周大使1978年抵任，已經9年，坐在教宗左手方第三位，因此他是外交團第6資深者。在各國大使的後面，依該國使館職銜排座位。我國周大使之後依序是項士揆公使，謝新平參事，萬家興二等秘書。周大使非常關心自己的座位，很不希望向前移動，每年此時他都會看自己的位置離團長多近。因為我國和大多國家沒有邦交，擔任外交團團長會不方便。教廷希望擔任外交團團長的大使，是各國都能接受的人選。當我國大使年資快到前三名，教廷很可能要求更換大使。時年74歲，排名第六的周大使，不希望被換掉。他希望在大使位置「越久越好」。
各國大使的服裝多彩多姿。現場絕大多數穿著燕尾服，大使，公使大多配掛綵帶勳章。我國周大使，配戴彩帶勳章，項公使戴著越南總統阮文紹贈與的一枚勳章，謝新平參事和我沒有勳章可配掛。有些歐洲有王室的老牌國家大使例如葡萄牙，丹麥，比利時，愛爾蘭等國大使穿著戎裝，像是十九世紀的將軍，鑲著紅邊的制服，制服上掛著一排勳章，手持像法國騎兵的高帽，腰間配把長劍，雄姿英發。摩洛哥大使為在教宗左手邊第一位，第二資深，一身白衣白袍白帽白披風白鞋。印尼大使一身灰色服裝，頭戴無邊黑色方帽，腰間繫著紅布巾。伊朗大使一身回教打扮，頭上纏白頭巾。巴基斯坦大使穿著像制服的灰色圓領上裝和長褲。置身大廳彷彿回到電影中描述的十八世紀宮廷。菲律賓大使，年輕有為，是李姓華裔後裔，能簡單閩南語交談。新加坡大使，四十歲出頭，非常年輕。我們的亞洲鄰國大使更換很快，朝氣蓬勃。
十點59分大廳突然大放光明，全體外交團起立，靜待教宗蒞臨。十一時整，教宗進入大廳，優雅地坐在聖座。接著教宗右手邊第一位的象牙海岸大使起立，代表全體外交團以法語向教宗祝賀新年。他讚揚教宗對世界和平的貢獻，希望各國共同努力，促進世界和平。隨後教宗也以法語致詞，全體一片肅靜。教宗提到「世界和平」。這是每年都提到的主題，今年更有「恐怖主義」以及在戰爭，飢荒，苛政之下的苦難人民。世界上仍有許多野心家不聽教宗的呼籲，把人民當作逞遂私欲的工具，進行毫無意義的戰爭。最後教宗用義大利英法德西班牙中日韓等國語言，祝福世界各國人民「新年快樂」。
致詞結束後，教宗走下台階，先和各國使節一一握手，祝賀新年，然後走到女士席，特別停下，允許每位女士和教宗握手合影。這是女士們期待的時刻，女士們很高興，很有秩序地和教宗合影留念。整個活動大約在十二點結束。
回憶錄60 向教宗拜年
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1. 萬秘書夫婦盛裝出席
2. 萬太太向教宗拜年
3. 萬秘書夫婦和瑞士衛兵合影
4. 瑞士衛兵，制服好帥，米開朗基羅設計
5. 台階上手持古代長戟的衛兵
6. 周大使和館員項公使，謝參事，萬秘書
7. 有紅圈標示同一張照片
8. 萬太太與韓國秘書太太
9. 周大使與教宗
10. 教宗若望保祿二世
Memories 60
Celebrating the Pope's Year
On the second Saturday of the year, the Holy See hosts a diplomatic mission for the New Year. This is a very important traditional festival in which the process seems to go back to the Middle Ages. The theme of the ceremony is the pope's New Year's greeting to the people of the The Holy See has diplomatic relations with some 190 countries around the world, and all ambassadors are invited to attend.
There are about 80 embassies in Rome. Nearly a hundred other countries have embassies in other countries, usually in European capitals, and are assigned to the Holy See as "participants". Every year on this day, envoys from many countries come from Paris, London, Geneva and other places to attend the event.
Invitation is sent out by the Holy See concierge around December every year. Invitation notes date and time, men's and women's clothing, parking location, arrival time, seating time, and please reply to attend. This is a very formal invitation. I'll introduce you to the process I participated in on January 10, 1987.
I put on a big dress at 9am. It includes: tuxedo top, white shirt for dress bought at a special clothing store in Rome, black pants with black edges, white bowtie, shiny leather shoes. My wife has a long black dress, black hair, earrings brooch is basic. Going out dressed up and ran into community admin Marcelo. His eyes brightened, and he saluted us couple.
I drove to the entrance of the day's event, Bill Gate, and there was a Mercedes brakes in front of me with the national flag, supposed to be the ambassador of a certain country, the Swiss guard saluted. Our car is silver grey rich, not much eye-catching, but the license plate is CD diplomatic license plate, and the guards salute us. After entering the gate, the road is full of stone blocks that are five hundred years old. Deep palace halls on both sides, spectacularly beautiful. Arrived at the bell tower square of the Apostles' Palace, I parked my car and walked into the Apostles' Palace with my wife in half heels. Guard standing in line with the aisle of the Apostolic Palace, they keep their medieval dress, wearing iron helmets and holding a bench, swords around the waist, uniforms designed by Michelangelo. The captain of the guard gave a message and they saluted our couple.
The Swiss Guard has a historical tradition. The Swiss were employed as guards in the medieval Papal States. On 6 May 1527 Pope Clemont VII was invaded by the troops of the Holy Roman Empire, and the Swiss guards fought bravely, allowing the pope to avoid disaster in the most urgent moment. The 189-man guard died 147 in action. Since then, the Holy See's guards have been recruited to Switzerland, and Switzerland has been very cooperative, providing the Holy See with men of military age, and May 6 every year marks the anniversary of the recruitment of recruits to declare loyalty to the pope.
Walk through the Apostles' Palace and enter the elevator. The waiter in the elevator in tuxedo led us to the Apostolic Hall, Sala Regia, and then a senior leader asked us what country we came from, then handed me and my wife to two chiefs, one who took me to our seat in the diplomatic corps and the other who guided Mrs. Wan to the women's table.
The seats in the diplomatic corps are clearly arranged. Listed according to the order in which the ambassadors submitted their national letters. The seat on the right hand of the pope is 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 in order. Left hand is 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and so on. At a glance, there are about 80 or 90 ambassadors present. The pope's far opposite is the ladies' table. All black dresses, black pressed one piece, about fifty. The first person on the right hand of the pope, the head of the diplomatic mission, is the Ivory Coast 18 years in office. Nine years since our Ambassador arrived in 1978 and sits third on the left hand of the pope, so he is the 6th senior member of the diplomatic corps. Behind each country's ambassadors, seats are lined up according to the country's embassy job. After our Ambassador Zhou, in order, he was Minister Xiang Shizheng, Director Xie Xinping, Second Secretary Wan Jiaxing. Ambassador Zhou is very concerned about his seat and does not want to move forward, every year at this time he looks at how close he is to the head of the team Because our country and most countries have no diplomatic relations, it is inconvenient to be the head of the diplomatic mission. The ambassador the Holy See wants to serve as head of the diplomatic mission is a person acceptable to all countries. When our ambassadors reach the top three, the Holy See is likely to ask for a change of ambassadors. 74 years old, sixth-ranked ambassador of the week, don't want to be replaced. He hopes that "the longer the better" in the ambassador position.
The costumes of ambassadors are colorful. Most of the scene were wearing tuxedo, ambassadors, and ministers mostly with hanging bands. Our Ambassador Zhou, wearing a ribbon medal, and Minister Niang wearing a medal from Vietnam President Mr. Nguyen Wen Shao gave a medal. Staff officer Xie Xinping and I have no medals to hang. Some European ambassadors with royal family, such as Portugal, Denmark, Belgium, Ireland, etc. wear uniform, like 19th century generals, wearing red-brimmed uniforms, wearing a row of medals on the uniform, holding a high cap like a French cavalryman, with a long sword at the waist, and handsome hair. Moroccan ambassador is the first and second senior on the left hand of the pope, wearing white robe white cap white cap white shoes. Indonesian ambassador in grey, black square cap and red cloth towel around his waist. The Iranian ambassador is dressed in a Muslim dress with a white turban on his head. The Pakistani ambassador wore a grey round neck top and pants like a uniform. Being in the hall is like returning to the 18th century court described in the movie. Philippine ambassador, young and talented, is of Chinese descent surname Li, can talk simply in southern language. Singapore ambassador, early 40s, very young. Our Asian neighbors are changing quickly and vibrant.
At 10:59 a.m., the hall was suddenly bright and the whole diplomatic corps stood up and waited for the pope to come. At eleven o'clock the pope entered the hall and sat gracefully in the Holy See. Then the first Ivory Coast ambassador on the right hand of the pope stood up to greet the pope in French on behalf of the entire diplomatic community. He praised the Pope's contribution to world peace and hoped that all countries would work together to promote world peace. Then the pope also spoke in French, and the whole was quiet. The pope speaks of "world peace". This is the theme mentioned every year, this year there is more "terrorism" and suffering people under war, famines, and tyranny. There are still many ambitionists in the world who do not listen to the pope's call and use the people as instruments of selfish desires to wage senseless wars. Finally, the pope wished the people of the world a "Happy New Year" in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean
At the end of the speech, the pope walked down the steps, shook hands with the envoys one by one, wished the New Year, then walked to the ladies' table, and stopped specifically, allowing each lady to shake hands with the This is the moment the ladies are looking forward to, ladies are very happy and ordered to take a photo with the pope. The whole event ended around 12 o'clock.
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1. 1. Secretary and couple dressed up
2. The Mrs. Wan pays tribute to the pope
3. 3. Secretary couple and Swiss guard photo
4. 4. 4. Swiss guard, nice uniform, Michelangelo design
5. 5. Guard holding ancient benches on the steps
6. 6. 6. Ambassador Zhou and ambassador of the librarian, thank you staff, secretary Wan
7. The Red circles tag the same photo
8. 8. 8. Mrs. Wan and the Korean secretary wife
9. 9. Ambassador Zhou and the pope
10. 10. Pope John Paul II
「每年的第二個星期六教廷舉辦外交團新年團拜。這是個非常重要的傳統節日，其中過程彷若回到中古世紀。儀式的主題是教宗向全世界人民祝賀新年。教廷和全世界大約190個國家有外交關係，所有各國大使都受邀出席。」
⭐Diplomatic work - birthday to the pope 🌟 Ambassador Wan Jiaxing ️
"The Holy See hosts a diplomatic mission for the New Year on the second Saturday of the year. This is a very important traditional festival in which the process seems to go back to the Middle Ages. The theme of the ceremony is the pope's New Year's greeting to the people of the The Holy See has diplomatic relations with some 190 countries around the world, and all ambassadors are invited to attend. " The "
回憶錄60
向教宗拜年
每年的第二個星期六教廷舉辦外交團新年團拜。這是個非常重要的傳統節日，其中過程彷若回到中古世紀。儀式的主題是教宗向全世界人民祝賀新年。教廷和全世界大約190個國家有外交關係，所有各國大使都受邀出席。
在羅馬的駐教廷大使館約八十多個。其它近百國家的大使館在其它國家，通常是在歐洲國家首都，而派駐教廷為「兼使」。每年此日，很多國家的兼使都會從巴黎倫敦日內瓦等地趕來參加盛會。
大約在每年12月教廷禮賓司發出請帖。請帖上面寫明了舉行日期時間，男士和女士的服裝穿著，停車位置，抵達時間，入座時間，以及請回覆參加人員。這是非常正式的請帖。我就把1987年一月十日我參加的過程向大家介紹。
早晨九點我穿上大禮服。它包括：燕尾服上衣，在羅馬特別服飾店買的禮服專用白襯衫，鑲黑邊黑長褲，白領結，光亮的漆皮皮鞋。我太太全身黑長禮服，頭戴黑紗，耳環胸針是基本配備。穿戴整齊出門碰到社區管理員Marcelo。他眼睛一亮，肅然起敬，向我們夫婦敬禮。
我開車到了當天的活動入口，比爾大門時，前方有一輛賓士轎車插著國旗，應該是某國大使，瑞士衛兵立正敬禮。我們的車是銀灰色富豪，不怎麼起眼，但車牌是CD外交車牌，衛兵也向我們敬禮。進了大門後，全是石塊鋪的道路，這些石塊有五百年歷史。兩旁深宮大殿，壯觀美麗。到了使徒宮的鐘樓廣場，我把車停好，攙扶著穿著半高跟鞋的太太，走進使徒宮。使徒宮走道兩旁衛兵列隊站立，他們保持著中古世紀的打扮，戴著鐵盔手持長戟，腰間配著寶劍，制服是米開朗基羅的設計。衛兵隊長一聲口令，他們向我們夫婦立正敬禮。
瑞士衛兵有歷史傳統。在中世紀教皇國雇用瑞士人當衛兵。1527年5月6日教宗克里蒙七世遭到神聖羅馬帝國的軍隊入侵，瑞士衛兵奮勇抵抗，使得教宗在最緊急時刻，躲開災難。此役189人的衛隊陣亡了147人。此後教廷的衛隊一律向瑞士招募，而瑞士也非常配合，提供教廷適合的兵役年齡男子，每年5月6日就成了新兵入伍宣示效忠教宗的紀念日。
走過使徒宮，進入電梯。電梯中的侍者身穿燕尾服，引領我們到宗座廳，Sala Regia，然後一位資深的領位員問了我們來自那個國家，再把我和太太交給兩位領位員，一位帶著我到外交團我國的席位，另一位引導萬太太到女眷席。
外交團的席位排列明確。按照各國大使呈遞國書的先後順序排列。在教宗的右手邊座位依序是第1，3，5，7，9。左手邊是2，4，6，8，10，以此類推。一眼望去，大約有八九十位大使在座。教宗的遠方正對面，是女士席。全部都是黑禮服，黑壓壓一片，大約五十位。教宗右手邊第一位，也就是外交團團長，是象牙海岸大使。已經任職18年。我國周大使1978年抵任，已經9年，坐在教宗左手方第三位，因此他是外交團第6資深者。在各國大使的後面，依該國使館職銜排座位。我國周大使之後依序是項士揆公使，謝新平參事，萬家興二等秘書。周大使非常關心自己的座位，很不希望向前移動，每年此時他都會看自己的位置離團長多近。因為我國和大多國家沒有邦交，擔任外交團團長會不方便。教廷希望擔任外交團團長的大使，是各國都能接受的人選。當我國大使年資快到前三名，教廷很可能要求更換大使。時年74歲，排名第六的周大使，不希望被換掉。他希望在大使位置「越久越好」。
各國大使的服裝多彩多姿。現場絕大多數穿著燕尾服，大使，公使大多配掛綵帶勳章。我國周大使，配戴彩帶勳章，項公使戴著越南總統阮文紹贈與的一枚勳章，謝新平參事和我沒有勳章可配掛。有些歐洲有王室的老牌國家大使例如葡萄牙，丹麥，比利時，愛爾蘭等國大使穿著戎裝，像是十九世紀的將軍，鑲著紅邊的制服，制服上掛著一排勳章，手持像法國騎兵的高帽，腰間配把長劍，雄姿英發。摩洛哥大使為在教宗左手邊第一位，第二資深，一身白衣白袍白帽白披風白鞋。印尼大使一身灰色服裝，頭戴無邊黑色方帽，腰間繫著紅布巾。伊朗大使一身回教打扮，頭上纏白頭巾。巴基斯坦大使穿著像制服的灰色圓領上裝和長褲。置身大廳彷彿回到電影中描述的十八世紀宮廷。菲律賓大使，年輕有為，是李姓華裔後裔，能簡單閩南語交談。新加坡大使，四十歲出頭，非常年輕。我們的亞洲鄰國大使更換很快，朝氣蓬勃。
十點59分大廳突然大放光明，全體外交團起立，靜待教宗蒞臨。十一時整，教宗進入大廳，優雅地坐在聖座。接著教宗右手邊第一位的象牙海岸大使起立，代表全體外交團以法語向教宗祝賀新年。他讚揚教宗對世界和平的貢獻，希望各國共同努力，促進世界和平。隨後教宗也以法語致詞，全體一片肅靜。教宗提到「世界和平」。這是每年都提到的主題，今年更有「恐怖主義」以及在戰爭，飢荒，苛政之下的苦難人民。世界上仍有許多野心家不聽教宗的呼籲，把人民當作逞遂私欲的工具，進行毫無意義的戰爭。最後教宗用義大利英法德西班牙中日韓等國語言，祝福世界各國人民「新年快樂」。
致詞結束後，教宗走下台階，先和各國使節一一握手，祝賀新年，然後走到女士席，特別停下，允許每位女士和教宗握手合影。這是女士們期待的時刻，女士們很高興，很有秩序地和教宗合影留念。整個活動大約在十二點結束。
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1. 萬秘書夫婦盛裝出席
2. 萬太太向教宗拜年
3. 萬秘書夫婦和瑞士衛兵合影
4. 瑞士衛兵，制服好帥，米開朗基羅設計
5. 台階上手持古代長戟的衛兵
6. 周大使和館員項公使，謝參事，萬秘書
7. 有紅圈標示同一張照片
8. 萬太太與韓國秘書太太
9. 周大使與教宗
10. 教宗若望保祿二世
Memories 60
Celebrating the Pope's Year
On the second Saturday of the year, the Holy See hosts a diplomatic mission for the New Year. This is a very important traditional festival in which the process seems to go back to the Middle Ages. The theme of the ceremony is the pope's New Year's greeting to the people of the The Holy See has diplomatic relations with some 190 countries around the world, and all ambassadors are invited to attend.
There are about 80 embassies in Rome. Nearly a hundred other countries have embassies in other countries, usually in European capitals, and are assigned to the Holy See as "participants". Every year on this day, envoys from many countries come from Paris, London, Geneva and other places to attend the event.
Invitation is sent out by the Holy See concierge around December every year. Invitation notes date and time, men's and women's clothing, parking location, arrival time, seating time, and please reply to attend. This is a very formal invitation. I'll introduce you to the process I participated in on January 10, 1987.
I put on a big dress at 9am. It includes: tuxedo top, white shirt for dress bought at a special clothing store in Rome, black pants with black edges, white bowtie, shiny leather shoes. My wife has a long black dress, black hair, earrings brooch is basic. Going out dressed up and ran into community admin Marcelo. His eyes brightened, and he saluted us couple.
I drove to the entrance of the day's event, Bill Gate, and there was a Mercedes brakes in front of me with the national flag, supposed to be the ambassador of a certain country, the Swiss guard saluted. Our car is silver grey rich, not much eye-catching, but the license plate is CD diplomatic license plate, and the guards salute us. After entering the gate, the road is full of stone blocks that are five hundred years old. Deep palace halls on both sides, spectacularly beautiful. Arrived at the bell tower square of the Apostles' Palace, I parked my car and walked into the Apostles' Palace with my wife in half heels. Guard standing in line with the aisle of the Apostolic Palace, they keep their medieval dress, wearing iron helmets and holding a bench, swords around the waist, uniforms designed by Michelangelo. The captain of the guard gave a message and they saluted our couple.
The Swiss Guard has a historical tradition. The Swiss were employed as guards in the medieval Papal States. On 6 May 1527 Pope Clemont VII was invaded by the troops of the Holy Roman Empire, and the Swiss guards fought bravely, allowing the pope to avoid disaster in the most urgent moment. The 189-man guard died 147 in action. Since then, the Holy See's guards have been recruited to Switzerland, and Switzerland has been very cooperative, providing the Holy See with men of military age, and May 6 every year marks the anniversary of the recruitment of recruits to declare loyalty to the pope.
Walk through the Apostles' Palace and enter the elevator. The waiter in the elevator in tuxedo led us to the Apostolic Hall, Sala Regia, and then a senior leader asked us what country we came from, then handed me and my wife to two chiefs, one who took me to our seat in the diplomatic corps and the other who guided Mrs. Wan to the women's table.
The seats in the diplomatic corps are clearly arranged. Listed according to the order in which the ambassadors submitted their national letters. The seat on the right hand of the pope is 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 in order. Left hand is 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and so on. At a glance, there are about 80 or 90 ambassadors present. The pope's far opposite is the ladies' table. All black dresses, black pressed one piece, about fifty. The first person on the right hand of the pope, the head of the diplomatic mission, is the Ivory Coast 18 years in office. Nine years since our Ambassador arrived in 1978 and sits third on the left hand of the pope, so he is the 6th senior member of the diplomatic corps. Behind each country's ambassadors, seats are lined up according to the country's embassy job. After our Ambassador Zhou, in order, he was Minister Xiang Shizheng, Director Xie Xinping, Second Secretary Wan Jiaxing. Ambassador Zhou is very concerned about his seat and does not want to move forward, every year at this time he looks at how close he is to the head of the team Because our country and most countries have no diplomatic relations, it is inconvenient to be the head of the diplomatic mission. The ambassador the Holy See wants to serve as head of the diplomatic mission is a person acceptable to all countries. When our ambassadors reach the top three, the Holy See is likely to ask for a change of ambassadors. 74 years old, sixth-ranked ambassador of the week, don't want to be replaced. He hopes that "the longer the better" in the ambassador position.
The costumes of ambassadors are colorful. Most of the scene were wearing tuxedo, ambassadors, and ministers mostly with hanging bands. Our Ambassador Zhou, wearing a ribbon medal, and Minister Niang wearing a medal from Vietnam President Mr. Nguyen Wen Shao gave a medal. Staff officer Xie Xinping and I have no medals to hang. Some European ambassadors with royal family, such as Portugal, Denmark, Belgium, Ireland, etc. wear uniform, like 19th century generals, wearing red-brimmed uniforms, wearing a row of medals on the uniform, holding a high cap like a French cavalryman, with a long sword at the waist, and handsome hair. Moroccan ambassador is the first and second senior on the left hand of the pope, wearing white robe white cap white cap white shoes. Indonesian ambassador in grey, black square cap and red cloth towel around his waist. The Iranian ambassador is dressed in a Muslim dress with a white turban on his head. The Pakistani ambassador wore a grey round neck top and pants like a uniform. Being in the hall is like returning to the 18th century court described in the movie. Philippine ambassador, young and talented, is of Chinese descent surname Li, can talk simply in southern language. Singapore ambassador, early 40s, very young. Our Asian neighbors are changing quickly and vibrant.
At 10:59 a.m., the hall was suddenly bright and the whole diplomatic corps stood up and waited for the pope to come. At eleven o'clock the pope entered the hall and sat gracefully in the Holy See. Then the first Ivory Coast ambassador on the right hand of the pope stood up to greet the pope in French on behalf of the entire diplomatic community. He praised the Pope's contribution to world peace and hoped that all countries would work together to promote world peace. Then the pope also spoke in French, and the whole was quiet. The pope speaks of "world peace". This is the theme mentioned every year, this year there is more "terrorism" and suffering people under war, famines, and tyranny. There are still many ambitionists in the world who do not listen to the pope's call and use the people as instruments of selfish desires to wage senseless wars. Finally, the pope wished the people of the world a "Happy New Year" in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean
At the end of the speech, the pope walked down the steps, shook hands with the envoys one by one, wished the New Year, then walked to the ladies' table, and stopped specifically, allowing each lady to shake hands with the This is the moment the ladies are looking forward to, ladies are very happy and ordered to take a photo with the pope. The whole event ended around 12 o'clock.
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1. 1. Secretary and couple dressed up
2. The Mrs. Wan pays tribute to the pope
3. 3. Secretary couple and Swiss guard photo
4. 4. 4. Swiss guard, nice uniform, Michelangelo design
5. 5. Guard holding ancient benches on the steps
6. 6. 6. Ambassador Zhou and ambassador of the librarian, thank you staff, secretary Wan
7. The Red circles tag the same photo
8. 8. 8. Mrs. Wan and the Korean secretary wife
9. 9. Ambassador Zhou and the pope
10. 10. Pope John Paul II
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⭐️外交工作- 向教宗拜年🌟 萬家興大使⭐️
「每年的第二個星期六教廷舉辦外交團新年團拜。這是個非常重要的傳統節日，其中過程彷若回到中古世紀。儀式的主題是教宗向全世界人民祝賀新年。教廷和全世界大約190個國家有外交關係，所有各國大使都受邀出席。」
⭐Diplomatic work - birthday to the pope 🌟 Ambassador Wan Jiaxing ️
"The Holy See hosts a diplomatic mission for the New Year on the second Saturday of the year. This is a very important traditional festival in which the process seems to go back to the Middle Ages. The theme of the ceremony is the pope's New Year's greeting to the people of the The Holy See has diplomatic relations with some 190 countries around the world, and all ambassadors are invited to attend. " The "
回憶錄60
向教宗拜年
每年的第二個星期六教廷舉辦外交團新年團拜。這是個非常重要的傳統節日，其中過程彷若回到中古世紀。儀式的主題是教宗向全世界人民祝賀新年。教廷和全世界大約190個國家有外交關係，所有各國大使都受邀出席。
在羅馬的駐教廷大使館約八十多個。其它近百國家的大使館在其它國家，通常是在歐洲國家首都，而派駐教廷為「兼使」。每年此日，很多國家的兼使都會從巴黎倫敦日內瓦等地趕來參加盛會。
大約在每年12月教廷禮賓司發出請帖。請帖上面寫明了舉行日期時間，男士和女士的服裝穿著，停車位置，抵達時間，入座時間，以及請回覆參加人員。這是非常正式的請帖。我就把1987年一月十日我參加的過程向大家介紹。
早晨九點我穿上大禮服。它包括：燕尾服上衣，在羅馬特別服飾店買的禮服專用白襯衫，鑲黑邊黑長褲，白領結，光亮的漆皮皮鞋。我太太全身黑長禮服，頭戴黑紗，耳環胸針是基本配備。穿戴整齊出門碰到社區管理員Marcelo。他眼睛一亮，肅然起敬，向我們夫婦敬禮。
我開車到了當天的活動入口，比爾大門時，前方有一輛賓士轎車插著國旗，應該是某國大使，瑞士衛兵立正敬禮。我們的車是銀灰色富豪，不怎麼起眼，但車牌是CD外交車牌，衛兵也向我們敬禮。進了大門後，全是石塊鋪的道路，這些石塊有五百年歷史。兩旁深宮大殿，壯觀美麗。到了使徒宮的鐘樓廣場，我把車停好，攙扶著穿著半高跟鞋的太太，走進使徒宮。使徒宮走道兩旁衛兵列隊站立，他們保持著中古世紀的打扮，戴著鐵盔手持長戟，腰間配著寶劍，制服是米開朗基羅的設計。衛兵隊長一聲口令，他們向我們夫婦立正敬禮。
瑞士衛兵有歷史傳統。在中世紀教皇國雇用瑞士人當衛兵。1527年5月6日教宗克里蒙七世遭到神聖羅馬帝國的軍隊入侵，瑞士衛兵奮勇抵抗，使得教宗在最緊急時刻，躲開災難。此役189人的衛隊陣亡了147人。此後教廷的衛隊一律向瑞士招募，而瑞士也非常配合，提供教廷適合的兵役年齡男子，每年5月6日就成了新兵入伍宣示效忠教宗的紀念日。
走過使徒宮，進入電梯。電梯中的侍者身穿燕尾服，引領我們到宗座廳，Sala Regia，然後一位資深的領位員問了我們來自那個國家，再把我和太太交給兩位領位員，一位帶著我到外交團我國的席位，另一位引導萬太太到女眷席。
外交團的席位排列明確。按照各國大使呈遞國書的先後順序排列。在教宗的右手邊座位依序是第1，3，5，7，9。左手邊是2，4，6，8，10，以此類推。一眼望去，大約有八九十位大使在座。教宗的遠方正對面，是女士席。全部都是黑禮服，黑壓壓一片，大約五十位。教宗右手邊第一位，也就是外交團團長，是象牙海岸大使。已經任職18年。我國周大使1978年抵任，已經9年，坐在教宗左手方第三位，因此他是外交團第6資深者。在各國大使的後面，依該國使館職銜排座位。我國周大使之後依序是項士揆公使，謝新平參事，萬家興二等秘書。周大使非常關心自己的座位，很不希望向前移動，每年此時他都會看自己的位置離團長多近。因為我國和大多國家沒有邦交，擔任外交團團長會不方便。教廷希望擔任外交團團長的大使，是各國都能接受的人選。當我國大使年資快到前三名，教廷很可能要求更換大使。時年74歲，排名第六的周大使，不希望被換掉。他希望在大使位置「越久越好」。
各國大使的服裝多彩多姿。現場絕大多數穿著燕尾服，大使，公使大多配掛綵帶勳章。我國周大使，配戴彩帶勳章，項公使戴著越南總統阮文紹贈與的一枚勳章，謝新平參事和我沒有勳章可配掛。有些歐洲有王室的老牌國家大使例如葡萄牙，丹麥，比利時，愛爾蘭等國大使穿著戎裝，像是十九世紀的將軍，鑲著紅邊的制服，制服上掛著一排勳章，手持像法國騎兵的高帽，腰間配把長劍，雄姿英發。摩洛哥大使為在教宗左手邊第一位，第二資深，一身白衣白袍白帽白披風白鞋。印尼大使一身灰色服裝，頭戴無邊黑色方帽，腰間繫著紅布巾。伊朗大使一身回教打扮，頭上纏白頭巾。巴基斯坦大使穿著像制服的灰色圓領上裝和長褲。置身大廳彷彿回到電影中描述的十八世紀宮廷。菲律賓大使，年輕有為，是李姓華裔後裔，能簡單閩南語交談。新加坡大使，四十歲出頭，非常年輕。我們的亞洲鄰國大使更換很快，朝氣蓬勃。
十點59分大廳突然大放光明，全體外交團起立，靜待教宗蒞臨。十一時整，教宗進入大廳，優雅地坐在聖座。接著教宗右手邊第一位的象牙海岸大使起立，代表全體外交團以法語向教宗祝賀新年。他讚揚教宗對世界和平的貢獻，希望各國共同努力，促進世界和平。隨後教宗也以法語致詞，全體一片肅靜。教宗提到「世界和平」。這是每年都提到的主題，今年更有「恐怖主義」以及在戰爭，飢荒，苛政之下的苦難人民。世界上仍有許多野心家不聽教宗的呼籲，把人民當作逞遂私欲的工具，進行毫無意義的戰爭。最後教宗用義大利英法德西班牙中日韓等國語言，祝福世界各國人民「新年快樂」。
致詞結束後，教宗走下台階，先和各國使節一一握手，祝賀新年，然後走到女士席，特別停下，允許每位女士和教宗握手合影。這是女士們期待的時刻，女士們很高興，很有秩序地和教宗合影留念。整個活動大約在十二點結束。
回憶錄60 向教宗拜年
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回憶錄60 向教宗拜年
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1. 萬秘書夫婦盛裝出席
2. 萬太太向教宗拜年
3. 萬秘書夫婦和瑞士衛兵合影
4. 瑞士衛兵，制服好帥，米開朗基羅設計
5. 台階上手持古代長戟的衛兵
6. 周大使和館員項公使，謝參事，萬秘書
7. 有紅圈標示同一張照片
8. 萬太太與韓國秘書太太
9. 周大使與教宗
10. 教宗若望保祿二世
Memories 60
Celebrating the Pope's Year
On the second Saturday of the year, the Holy See hosts a diplomatic mission for the New Year. This is a very important traditional festival in which the process seems to go back to the Middle Ages. The theme of the ceremony is the pope's New Year's greeting to the people of the The Holy See has diplomatic relations with some 190 countries around the world, and all ambassadors are invited to attend.
There are about 80 embassies in Rome. Nearly a hundred other countries have embassies in other countries, usually in European capitals, and are assigned to the Holy See as "participants". Every year on this day, envoys from many countries come from Paris, London, Geneva and other places to attend the event.
Invitation is sent out by the Holy See concierge around December every year. Invitation notes date and time, men's and women's clothing, parking location, arrival time, seating time, and please reply to attend. This is a very formal invitation. I'll introduce you to the process I participated in on January 10, 1987.
I put on a big dress at 9am. It includes: tuxedo top, white shirt for dress bought at a special clothing store in Rome, black pants with black edges, white bowtie, shiny leather shoes. My wife has a long black dress, black hair, earrings brooch is basic. Going out dressed up and ran into community admin Marcelo. His eyes brightened, and he saluted us couple.
I drove to the entrance of the day's event, Bill Gate, and there was a Mercedes brakes in front of me with the national flag, supposed to be the ambassador of a certain country, the Swiss guard saluted. Our car is silver grey rich, not much eye-catching, but the license plate is CD diplomatic license plate, and the guards salute us. After entering the gate, the road is full of stone blocks that are five hundred years old. Deep palace halls on both sides, spectacularly beautiful. Arrived at the bell tower square of the Apostles' Palace, I parked my car and walked into the Apostles' Palace with my wife in half heels. Guard standing in line with the aisle of the Apostolic Palace, they keep their medieval dress, wearing iron helmets and holding a bench, swords around the waist, uniforms designed by Michelangelo. The captain of the guard gave a message and they saluted our couple.
The Swiss Guard has a historical tradition. The Swiss were employed as guards in the medieval Papal States. On 6 May 1527 Pope Clemont VII was invaded by the troops of the Holy Roman Empire, and the Swiss guards fought bravely, allowing the pope to avoid disaster in the most urgent moment. The 189-man guard died 147 in action. Since then, the Holy See's guards have been recruited to Switzerland, and Switzerland has been very cooperative, providing the Holy See with men of military age, and May 6 every year marks the anniversary of the recruitment of recruits to declare loyalty to the pope.
Walk through the Apostles' Palace and enter the elevator. The waiter in the elevator in tuxedo led us to the Apostolic Hall, Sala Regia, and then a senior leader asked us what country we came from, then handed me and my wife to two chiefs, one who took me to our seat in the diplomatic corps and the other who guided Mrs. Wan to the women's table.
The seats in the diplomatic corps are clearly arranged. Listed according to the order in which the ambassadors submitted their national letters. The seat on the right hand of the pope is 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 in order. Left hand is 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and so on. At a glance, there are about 80 or 90 ambassadors present. The pope's far opposite is the ladies' table. All black dresses, black pressed one piece, about fifty. The first person on the right hand of the pope, the head of the diplomatic mission, is the Ivory Coast 18 years in office. Nine years since our Ambassador arrived in 1978 and sits third on the left hand of the pope, so he is the 6th senior member of the diplomatic corps. Behind each country's ambassadors, seats are lined up according to the country's embassy job. After our Ambassador Zhou, in order, he was Minister Xiang Shizheng, Director Xie Xinping, Second Secretary Wan Jiaxing. Ambassador Zhou is very concerned about his seat and does not want to move forward, every year at this time he looks at how close he is to the head of the team Because our country and most countries have no diplomatic relations, it is inconvenient to be the head of the diplomatic mission. The ambassador the Holy See wants to serve as head of the diplomatic mission is a person acceptable to all countries. When our ambassadors reach the top three, the Holy See is likely to ask for a change of ambassadors. 74 years old, sixth-ranked ambassador of the week, don't want to be replaced. He hopes that "the longer the better" in the ambassador position.
The costumes of ambassadors are colorful. Most of the scene were wearing tuxedo, ambassadors, and ministers mostly with hanging bands. Our Ambassador Zhou, wearing a ribbon medal, and Minister Niang wearing a medal from Vietnam President Mr. Nguyen Wen Shao gave a medal. Staff officer Xie Xinping and I have no medals to hang. Some European ambassadors with royal family, such as Portugal, Denmark, Belgium, Ireland, etc. wear uniform, like 19th century generals, wearing red-brimmed uniforms, wearing a row of medals on the uniform, holding a high cap like a French cavalryman, with a long sword at the waist, and handsome hair. Moroccan ambassador is the first and second senior on the left hand of the pope, wearing white robe white cap white cap white shoes. Indonesian ambassador in grey, black square cap and red cloth towel around his waist. The Iranian ambassador is dressed in a Muslim dress with a white turban on his head. The Pakistani ambassador wore a grey round neck top and pants like a uniform. Being in the hall is like returning to the 18th century court described in the movie. Philippine ambassador, young and talented, is of Chinese descent surname Li, can talk simply in southern language. Singapore ambassador, early 40s, very young. Our Asian neighbors are changing quickly and vibrant.
At 10:59 a.m., the hall was suddenly bright and the whole diplomatic corps stood up and waited for the pope to come. At eleven o'clock the pope entered the hall and sat gracefully in the Holy See. Then the first Ivory Coast ambassador on the right hand of the pope stood up to greet the pope in French on behalf of the entire diplomatic community. He praised the Pope's contribution to world peace and hoped that all countries would work together to promote world peace. Then the pope also spoke in French, and the whole was quiet. The pope speaks of "world peace". This is the theme mentioned every year, this year there is more "terrorism" and suffering people under war, famines, and tyranny. There are still many ambitionists in the world who do not listen to the pope's call and use the people as instruments of selfish desires to wage senseless wars. Finally, the pope wished the people of the world a "Happy New Year" in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean
At the end of the speech, the pope walked down the steps, shook hands with the envoys one by one, wished the New Year, then walked to the ladies' table, and stopped specifically, allowing each lady to shake hands with the This is the moment the ladies are looking forward to, ladies are very happy and ordered to take a photo with the pope. The whole event ended around 12 o'clock.
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1. 1. Secretary and couple dressed up
2. The Mrs. Wan pays tribute to the pope
3. 3. Secretary couple and Swiss guard photo
4. 4. 4. Swiss guard, nice uniform, Michelangelo design
5. 5. Guard holding ancient benches on the steps
6. 6. 6. Ambassador Zhou and ambassador of the librarian, thank you staff, secretary Wan
7. The Red circles tag the same photo
8. 8. 8. Mrs. Wan and the Korean secretary wife
9. 9. Ambassador Zhou and the pope
10. 10. Pope John Paul II
「每年的第二個星期六教廷舉辦外交團新年團拜。這是個非常重要的傳統節日，其中過程彷若回到中古世紀。儀式的主題是教宗向全世界人民祝賀新年。教廷和全世界大約190個國家有外交關係，所有各國大使都受邀出席。」
⭐Diplomatic work - birthday to the pope 🌟 Ambassador Wan Jiaxing ️
"The Holy See hosts a diplomatic mission for the New Year on the second Saturday of the year. This is a very important traditional festival in which the process seems to go back to the Middle Ages. The theme of the ceremony is the pope's New Year's greeting to the people of the The Holy See has diplomatic relations with some 190 countries around the world, and all ambassadors are invited to attend. " The "
回憶錄60
向教宗拜年
每年的第二個星期六教廷舉辦外交團新年團拜。這是個非常重要的傳統節日，其中過程彷若回到中古世紀。儀式的主題是教宗向全世界人民祝賀新年。教廷和全世界大約190個國家有外交關係，所有各國大使都受邀出席。
在羅馬的駐教廷大使館約八十多個。其它近百國家的大使館在其它國家，通常是在歐洲國家首都，而派駐教廷為「兼使」。每年此日，很多國家的兼使都會從巴黎倫敦日內瓦等地趕來參加盛會。
大約在每年12月教廷禮賓司發出請帖。請帖上面寫明了舉行日期時間，男士和女士的服裝穿著，停車位置，抵達時間，入座時間，以及請回覆參加人員。這是非常正式的請帖。我就把1987年一月十日我參加的過程向大家介紹。
早晨九點我穿上大禮服。它包括：燕尾服上衣，在羅馬特別服飾店買的禮服專用白襯衫，鑲黑邊黑長褲，白領結，光亮的漆皮皮鞋。我太太全身黑長禮服，頭戴黑紗，耳環胸針是基本配備。穿戴整齊出門碰到社區管理員Marcelo。他眼睛一亮，肅然起敬，向我們夫婦敬禮。
我開車到了當天的活動入口，比爾大門時，前方有一輛賓士轎車插著國旗，應該是某國大使，瑞士衛兵立正敬禮。我們的車是銀灰色富豪，不怎麼起眼，但車牌是CD外交車牌，衛兵也向我們敬禮。進了大門後，全是石塊鋪的道路，這些石塊有五百年歷史。兩旁深宮大殿，壯觀美麗。到了使徒宮的鐘樓廣場，我把車停好，攙扶著穿著半高跟鞋的太太，走進使徒宮。使徒宮走道兩旁衛兵列隊站立，他們保持著中古世紀的打扮，戴著鐵盔手持長戟，腰間配著寶劍，制服是米開朗基羅的設計。衛兵隊長一聲口令，他們向我們夫婦立正敬禮。
瑞士衛兵有歷史傳統。在中世紀教皇國雇用瑞士人當衛兵。1527年5月6日教宗克里蒙七世遭到神聖羅馬帝國的軍隊入侵，瑞士衛兵奮勇抵抗，使得教宗在最緊急時刻，躲開災難。此役189人的衛隊陣亡了147人。此後教廷的衛隊一律向瑞士招募，而瑞士也非常配合，提供教廷適合的兵役年齡男子，每年5月6日就成了新兵入伍宣示效忠教宗的紀念日。
走過使徒宮，進入電梯。電梯中的侍者身穿燕尾服，引領我們到宗座廳，Sala Regia，然後一位資深的領位員問了我們來自那個國家，再把我和太太交給兩位領位員，一位帶著我到外交團我國的席位，另一位引導萬太太到女眷席。
外交團的席位排列明確。按照各國大使呈遞國書的先後順序排列。在教宗的右手邊座位依序是第1，3，5，7，9。左手邊是2，4，6，8，10，以此類推。一眼望去，大約有八九十位大使在座。教宗的遠方正對面，是女士席。全部都是黑禮服，黑壓壓一片，大約五十位。教宗右手邊第一位，也就是外交團團長，是象牙海岸大使。已經任職18年。我國周大使1978年抵任，已經9年，坐在教宗左手方第三位，因此他是外交團第6資深者。在各國大使的後面，依該國使館職銜排座位。我國周大使之後依序是項士揆公使，謝新平參事，萬家興二等秘書。周大使非常關心自己的座位，很不希望向前移動，每年此時他都會看自己的位置離團長多近。因為我國和大多國家沒有邦交，擔任外交團團長會不方便。教廷希望擔任外交團團長的大使，是各國都能接受的人選。當我國大使年資快到前三名，教廷很可能要求更換大使。時年74歲，排名第六的周大使，不希望被換掉。他希望在大使位置「越久越好」。
各國大使的服裝多彩多姿。現場絕大多數穿著燕尾服，大使，公使大多配掛綵帶勳章。我國周大使，配戴彩帶勳章，項公使戴著越南總統阮文紹贈與的一枚勳章，謝新平參事和我沒有勳章可配掛。有些歐洲有王室的老牌國家大使例如葡萄牙，丹麥，比利時，愛爾蘭等國大使穿著戎裝，像是十九世紀的將軍，鑲著紅邊的制服，制服上掛著一排勳章，手持像法國騎兵的高帽，腰間配把長劍，雄姿英發。摩洛哥大使為在教宗左手邊第一位，第二資深，一身白衣白袍白帽白披風白鞋。印尼大使一身灰色服裝，頭戴無邊黑色方帽，腰間繫著紅布巾。伊朗大使一身回教打扮，頭上纏白頭巾。巴基斯坦大使穿著像制服的灰色圓領上裝和長褲。置身大廳彷彿回到電影中描述的十八世紀宮廷。菲律賓大使，年輕有為，是李姓華裔後裔，能簡單閩南語交談。新加坡大使，四十歲出頭，非常年輕。我們的亞洲鄰國大使更換很快，朝氣蓬勃。
十點59分大廳突然大放光明，全體外交團起立，靜待教宗蒞臨。十一時整，教宗進入大廳，優雅地坐在聖座。接著教宗右手邊第一位的象牙海岸大使起立，代表全體外交團以法語向教宗祝賀新年。他讚揚教宗對世界和平的貢獻，希望各國共同努力，促進世界和平。隨後教宗也以法語致詞，全體一片肅靜。教宗提到「世界和平」。這是每年都提到的主題，今年更有「恐怖主義」以及在戰爭，飢荒，苛政之下的苦難人民。世界上仍有許多野心家不聽教宗的呼籲，把人民當作逞遂私欲的工具，進行毫無意義的戰爭。最後教宗用義大利英法德西班牙中日韓等國語言，祝福世界各國人民「新年快樂」。
致詞結束後，教宗走下台階，先和各國使節一一握手，祝賀新年，然後走到女士席，特別停下，允許每位女士和教宗握手合影。這是女士們期待的時刻，女士們很高興，很有秩序地和教宗合影留念。整個活動大約在十二點結束。
回憶錄60 向教宗拜年
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1. 萬秘書夫婦盛裝出席
2. 萬太太向教宗拜年
3. 萬秘書夫婦和瑞士衛兵合影
4. 瑞士衛兵，制服好帥，米開朗基羅設計
5. 台階上手持古代長戟的衛兵
6. 周大使和館員項公使，謝參事，萬秘書
7. 有紅圈標示同一張照片
8. 萬太太與韓國秘書太太
9. 周大使與教宗
10. 教宗若望保祿二世
Memories 60
Celebrating the Pope's Year
On the second Saturday of the year, the Holy See hosts a diplomatic mission for the New Year. This is a very important traditional festival in which the process seems to go back to the Middle Ages. The theme of the ceremony is the pope's New Year's greeting to the people of the The Holy See has diplomatic relations with some 190 countries around the world, and all ambassadors are invited to attend.
There are about 80 embassies in Rome. Nearly a hundred other countries have embassies in other countries, usually in European capitals, and are assigned to the Holy See as "participants". Every year on this day, envoys from many countries come from Paris, London, Geneva and other places to attend the event.
Invitation is sent out by the Holy See concierge around December every year. Invitation notes date and time, men's and women's clothing, parking location, arrival time, seating time, and please reply to attend. This is a very formal invitation. I'll introduce you to the process I participated in on January 10, 1987.
I put on a big dress at 9am. It includes: tuxedo top, white shirt for dress bought at a special clothing store in Rome, black pants with black edges, white bowtie, shiny leather shoes. My wife has a long black dress, black hair, earrings brooch is basic. Going out dressed up and ran into community admin Marcelo. His eyes brightened, and he saluted us couple.
I drove to the entrance of the day's event, Bill Gate, and there was a Mercedes brakes in front of me with the national flag, supposed to be the ambassador of a certain country, the Swiss guard saluted. Our car is silver grey rich, not much eye-catching, but the license plate is CD diplomatic license plate, and the guards salute us. After entering the gate, the road is full of stone blocks that are five hundred years old. Deep palace halls on both sides, spectacularly beautiful. Arrived at the bell tower square of the Apostles' Palace, I parked my car and walked into the Apostles' Palace with my wife in half heels. Guard standing in line with the aisle of the Apostolic Palace, they keep their medieval dress, wearing iron helmets and holding a bench, swords around the waist, uniforms designed by Michelangelo. The captain of the guard gave a message and they saluted our couple.
The Swiss Guard has a historical tradition. The Swiss were employed as guards in the medieval Papal States. On 6 May 1527 Pope Clemont VII was invaded by the troops of the Holy Roman Empire, and the Swiss guards fought bravely, allowing the pope to avoid disaster in the most urgent moment. The 189-man guard died 147 in action. Since then, the Holy See's guards have been recruited to Switzerland, and Switzerland has been very cooperative, providing the Holy See with men of military age, and May 6 every year marks the anniversary of the recruitment of recruits to declare loyalty to the pope.
Walk through the Apostles' Palace and enter the elevator. The waiter in the elevator in tuxedo led us to the Apostolic Hall, Sala Regia, and then a senior leader asked us what country we came from, then handed me and my wife to two chiefs, one who took me to our seat in the diplomatic corps and the other who guided Mrs. Wan to the women's table.
The seats in the diplomatic corps are clearly arranged. Listed according to the order in which the ambassadors submitted their national letters. The seat on the right hand of the pope is 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 in order. Left hand is 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and so on. At a glance, there are about 80 or 90 ambassadors present. The pope's far opposite is the ladies' table. All black dresses, black pressed one piece, about fifty. The first person on the right hand of the pope, the head of the diplomatic mission, is the Ivory Coast 18 years in office. Nine years since our Ambassador arrived in 1978 and sits third on the left hand of the pope, so he is the 6th senior member of the diplomatic corps. Behind each country's ambassadors, seats are lined up according to the country's embassy job. After our Ambassador Zhou, in order, he was Minister Xiang Shizheng, Director Xie Xinping, Second Secretary Wan Jiaxing. Ambassador Zhou is very concerned about his seat and does not want to move forward, every year at this time he looks at how close he is to the head of the team Because our country and most countries have no diplomatic relations, it is inconvenient to be the head of the diplomatic mission. The ambassador the Holy See wants to serve as head of the diplomatic mission is a person acceptable to all countries. When our ambassadors reach the top three, the Holy See is likely to ask for a change of ambassadors. 74 years old, sixth-ranked ambassador of the week, don't want to be replaced. He hopes that "the longer the better" in the ambassador position.
The costumes of ambassadors are colorful. Most of the scene were wearing tuxedo, ambassadors, and ministers mostly with hanging bands. Our Ambassador Zhou, wearing a ribbon medal, and Minister Niang wearing a medal from Vietnam President Mr. Nguyen Wen Shao gave a medal. Staff officer Xie Xinping and I have no medals to hang. Some European ambassadors with royal family, such as Portugal, Denmark, Belgium, Ireland, etc. wear uniform, like 19th century generals, wearing red-brimmed uniforms, wearing a row of medals on the uniform, holding a high cap like a French cavalryman, with a long sword at the waist, and handsome hair. Moroccan ambassador is the first and second senior on the left hand of the pope, wearing white robe white cap white cap white shoes. Indonesian ambassador in grey, black square cap and red cloth towel around his waist. The Iranian ambassador is dressed in a Muslim dress with a white turban on his head. The Pakistani ambassador wore a grey round neck top and pants like a uniform. Being in the hall is like returning to the 18th century court described in the movie. Philippine ambassador, young and talented, is of Chinese descent surname Li, can talk simply in southern language. Singapore ambassador, early 40s, very young. Our Asian neighbors are changing quickly and vibrant.
At 10:59 a.m., the hall was suddenly bright and the whole diplomatic corps stood up and waited for the pope to come. At eleven o'clock the pope entered the hall and sat gracefully in the Holy See. Then the first Ivory Coast ambassador on the right hand of the pope stood up to greet the pope in French on behalf of the entire diplomatic community. He praised the Pope's contribution to world peace and hoped that all countries would work together to promote world peace. Then the pope also spoke in French, and the whole was quiet. The pope speaks of "world peace". This is the theme mentioned every year, this year there is more "terrorism" and suffering people under war, famines, and tyranny. There are still many ambitionists in the world who do not listen to the pope's call and use the people as instruments of selfish desires to wage senseless wars. Finally, the pope wished the people of the world a "Happy New Year" in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean
At the end of the speech, the pope walked down the steps, shook hands with the envoys one by one, wished the New Year, then walked to the ladies' table, and stopped specifically, allowing each lady to shake hands with the This is the moment the ladies are looking forward to, ladies are very happy and ordered to take a photo with the pope. The whole event ended around 12 o'clock.
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1. 1. Secretary and couple dressed up
2. The Mrs. Wan pays tribute to the pope
3. 3. Secretary couple and Swiss guard photo
4. 4. 4. Swiss guard, nice uniform, Michelangelo design
5. 5. Guard holding ancient benches on the steps
6. 6. 6. Ambassador Zhou and ambassador of the librarian, thank you staff, secretary Wan
7. The Red circles tag the same photo
8. 8. 8. Mrs. Wan and the Korean secretary wife
9. 9. Ambassador Zhou and the pope
10. 10. Pope John Paul II
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⭐️外交工作- 向教宗拜年🌟 萬家興大使⭐️
「每年的第二個星期六教廷舉辦外交團新年團拜。這是個非常重要的傳統節日，其中過程彷若回到中古世紀。儀式的主題是教宗向全世界人民祝賀新年。教廷和全世界大約190個國家有外交關係，所有各國大使都受邀出席。」
⭐Diplomatic work - birthday to the pope 🌟 Ambassador Wan Jiaxing ️
"The Holy See hosts a diplomatic mission for the New Year on the second Saturday of the year. This is a very important traditional festival in which the process seems to go back to the Middle Ages. The theme of the ceremony is the pope's New Year's greeting to the people of the The Holy See has diplomatic relations with some 190 countries around the world, and all ambassadors are invited to attend. " The "
回憶錄60
向教宗拜年
每年的第二個星期六教廷舉辦外交團新年團拜。這是個非常重要的傳統節日，其中過程彷若回到中古世紀。儀式的主題是教宗向全世界人民祝賀新年。教廷和全世界大約190個國家有外交關係，所有各國大使都受邀出席。
在羅馬的駐教廷大使館約八十多個。其它近百國家的大使館在其它國家，通常是在歐洲國家首都，而派駐教廷為「兼使」。每年此日，很多國家的兼使都會從巴黎倫敦日內瓦等地趕來參加盛會。
大約在每年12月教廷禮賓司發出請帖。請帖上面寫明了舉行日期時間，男士和女士的服裝穿著，停車位置，抵達時間，入座時間，以及請回覆參加人員。這是非常正式的請帖。我就把1987年一月十日我參加的過程向大家介紹。
早晨九點我穿上大禮服。它包括：燕尾服上衣，在羅馬特別服飾店買的禮服專用白襯衫，鑲黑邊黑長褲，白領結，光亮的漆皮皮鞋。我太太全身黑長禮服，頭戴黑紗，耳環胸針是基本配備。穿戴整齊出門碰到社區管理員Marcelo。他眼睛一亮，肅然起敬，向我們夫婦敬禮。
我開車到了當天的活動入口，比爾大門時，前方有一輛賓士轎車插著國旗，應該是某國大使，瑞士衛兵立正敬禮。我們的車是銀灰色富豪，不怎麼起眼，但車牌是CD外交車牌，衛兵也向我們敬禮。進了大門後，全是石塊鋪的道路，這些石塊有五百年歷史。兩旁深宮大殿，壯觀美麗。到了使徒宮的鐘樓廣場，我把車停好，攙扶著穿著半高跟鞋的太太，走進使徒宮。使徒宮走道兩旁衛兵列隊站立，他們保持著中古世紀的打扮，戴著鐵盔手持長戟，腰間配著寶劍，制服是米開朗基羅的設計。衛兵隊長一聲口令，他們向我們夫婦立正敬禮。
瑞士衛兵有歷史傳統。在中世紀教皇國雇用瑞士人當衛兵。1527年5月6日教宗克里蒙七世遭到神聖羅馬帝國的軍隊入侵，瑞士衛兵奮勇抵抗，使得教宗在最緊急時刻，躲開災難。此役189人的衛隊陣亡了147人。此後教廷的衛隊一律向瑞士招募，而瑞士也非常配合，提供教廷適合的兵役年齡男子，每年5月6日就成了新兵入伍宣示效忠教宗的紀念日。
走過使徒宮，進入電梯。電梯中的侍者身穿燕尾服，引領我們到宗座廳，Sala Regia，然後一位資深的領位員問了我們來自那個國家，再把我和太太交給兩位領位員，一位帶著我到外交團我國的席位，另一位引導萬太太到女眷席。
外交團的席位排列明確。按照各國大使呈遞國書的先後順序排列。在教宗的右手邊座位依序是第1，3，5，7，9。左手邊是2，4，6，8，10，以此類推。一眼望去，大約有八九十位大使在座。教宗的遠方正對面，是女士席。全部都是黑禮服，黑壓壓一片，大約五十位。教宗右手邊第一位，也就是外交團團長，是象牙海岸大使。已經任職18年。我國周大使1978年抵任，已經9年，坐在教宗左手方第三位，因此他是外交團第6資深者。在各國大使的後面，依該國使館職銜排座位。我國周大使之後依序是項士揆公使，謝新平參事，萬家興二等秘書。周大使非常關心自己的座位，很不希望向前移動，每年此時他都會看自己的位置離團長多近。因為我國和大多國家沒有邦交，擔任外交團團長會不方便。教廷希望擔任外交團團長的大使，是各國都能接受的人選。當我國大使年資快到前三名，教廷很可能要求更換大使。時年74歲，排名第六的周大使，不希望被換掉。他希望在大使位置「越久越好」。
各國大使的服裝多彩多姿。現場絕大多數穿著燕尾服，大使，公使大多配掛綵帶勳章。我國周大使，配戴彩帶勳章，項公使戴著越南總統阮文紹贈與的一枚勳章，謝新平參事和我沒有勳章可配掛。有些歐洲有王室的老牌國家大使例如葡萄牙，丹麥，比利時，愛爾蘭等國大使穿著戎裝，像是十九世紀的將軍，鑲著紅邊的制服，制服上掛著一排勳章，手持像法國騎兵的高帽，腰間配把長劍，雄姿英發。摩洛哥大使為在教宗左手邊第一位，第二資深，一身白衣白袍白帽白披風白鞋。印尼大使一身灰色服裝，頭戴無邊黑色方帽，腰間繫著紅布巾。伊朗大使一身回教打扮，頭上纏白頭巾。巴基斯坦大使穿著像制服的灰色圓領上裝和長褲。置身大廳彷彿回到電影中描述的十八世紀宮廷。菲律賓大使，年輕有為，是李姓華裔後裔，能簡單閩南語交談。新加坡大使，四十歲出頭，非常年輕。我們的亞洲鄰國大使更換很快，朝氣蓬勃。
十點59分大廳突然大放光明，全體外交團起立，靜待教宗蒞臨。十一時整，教宗進入大廳，優雅地坐在聖座。接著教宗右手邊第一位的象牙海岸大使起立，代表全體外交團以法語向教宗祝賀新年。他讚揚教宗對世界和平的貢獻，希望各國共同努力，促進世界和平。隨後教宗也以法語致詞，全體一片肅靜。教宗提到「世界和平」。這是每年都提到的主題，今年更有「恐怖主義」以及在戰爭，飢荒，苛政之下的苦難人民。世界上仍有許多野心家不聽教宗的呼籲，把人民當作逞遂私欲的工具，進行毫無意義的戰爭。最後教宗用義大利英法德西班牙中日韓等國語言，祝福世界各國人民「新年快樂」。
致詞結束後，教宗走下台階，先和各國使節一一握手，祝賀新年，然後走到女士席，特別停下，允許每位女士和教宗握手合影。這是女士們期待的時刻，女士們很高興，很有秩序地和教宗合影留念。整個活動大約在十二點結束。
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1. 萬秘書夫婦盛裝出席
2. 萬太太向教宗拜年
3. 萬秘書夫婦和瑞士衛兵合影
4. 瑞士衛兵，制服好帥，米開朗基羅設計
5. 台階上手持古代長戟的衛兵
6. 周大使和館員項公使，謝參事，萬秘書
7. 有紅圈標示同一張照片
8. 萬太太與韓國秘書太太
9. 周大使與教宗
10. 教宗若望保祿二世
Memories 60
Celebrating the Pope's Year
On the second Saturday of the year, the Holy See hosts a diplomatic mission for the New Year. This is a very important traditional festival in which the process seems to go back to the Middle Ages. The theme of the ceremony is the pope's New Year's greeting to the people of the The Holy See has diplomatic relations with some 190 countries around the world, and all ambassadors are invited to attend.
There are about 80 embassies in Rome. Nearly a hundred other countries have embassies in other countries, usually in European capitals, and are assigned to the Holy See as "participants". Every year on this day, envoys from many countries come from Paris, London, Geneva and other places to attend the event.
Invitation is sent out by the Holy See concierge around December every year. Invitation notes date and time, men's and women's clothing, parking location, arrival time, seating time, and please reply to attend. This is a very formal invitation. I'll introduce you to the process I participated in on January 10, 1987.
I put on a big dress at 9am. It includes: tuxedo top, white shirt for dress bought at a special clothing store in Rome, black pants with black edges, white bowtie, shiny leather shoes. My wife has a long black dress, black hair, earrings brooch is basic. Going out dressed up and ran into community admin Marcelo. His eyes brightened, and he saluted us couple.
I drove to the entrance of the day's event, Bill Gate, and there was a Mercedes brakes in front of me with the national flag, supposed to be the ambassador of a certain country, the Swiss guard saluted. Our car is silver grey rich, not much eye-catching, but the license plate is CD diplomatic license plate, and the guards salute us. After entering the gate, the road is full of stone blocks that are five hundred years old. Deep palace halls on both sides, spectacularly beautiful. Arrived at the bell tower square of the Apostles' Palace, I parked my car and walked into the Apostles' Palace with my wife in half heels. Guard standing in line with the aisle of the Apostolic Palace, they keep their medieval dress, wearing iron helmets and holding a bench, swords around the waist, uniforms designed by Michelangelo. The captain of the guard gave a message and they saluted our couple.
The Swiss Guard has a historical tradition. The Swiss were employed as guards in the medieval Papal States. On 6 May 1527 Pope Clemont VII was invaded by the troops of the Holy Roman Empire, and the Swiss guards fought bravely, allowing the pope to avoid disaster in the most urgent moment. The 189-man guard died 147 in action. Since then, the Holy See's guards have been recruited to Switzerland, and Switzerland has been very cooperative, providing the Holy See with men of military age, and May 6 every year marks the anniversary of the recruitment of recruits to declare loyalty to the pope.
Walk through the Apostles' Palace and enter the elevator. The waiter in the elevator in tuxedo led us to the Apostolic Hall, Sala Regia, and then a senior leader asked us what country we came from, then handed me and my wife to two chiefs, one who took me to our seat in the diplomatic corps and the other who guided Mrs. Wan to the women's table.
The seats in the diplomatic corps are clearly arranged. Listed according to the order in which the ambassadors submitted their national letters. The seat on the right hand of the pope is 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 in order. Left hand is 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and so on. At a glance, there are about 80 or 90 ambassadors present. The pope's far opposite is the ladies' table. All black dresses, black pressed one piece, about fifty. The first person on the right hand of the pope, the head of the diplomatic mission, is the Ivory Coast 18 years in office. Nine years since our Ambassador arrived in 1978 and sits third on the left hand of the pope, so he is the 6th senior member of the diplomatic corps. Behind each country's ambassadors, seats are lined up according to the country's embassy job. After our Ambassador Zhou, in order, he was Minister Xiang Shizheng, Director Xie Xinping, Second Secretary Wan Jiaxing. Ambassador Zhou is very concerned about his seat and does not want to move forward, every year at this time he looks at how close he is to the head of the team Because our country and most countries have no diplomatic relations, it is inconvenient to be the head of the diplomatic mission. The ambassador the Holy See wants to serve as head of the diplomatic mission is a person acceptable to all countries. When our ambassadors reach the top three, the Holy See is likely to ask for a change of ambassadors. 74 years old, sixth-ranked ambassador of the week, don't want to be replaced. He hopes that "the longer the better" in the ambassador position.
The costumes of ambassadors are colorful. Most of the scene were wearing tuxedo, ambassadors, and ministers mostly with hanging bands. Our Ambassador Zhou, wearing a ribbon medal, and Minister Niang wearing a medal from Vietnam President Mr. Nguyen Wen Shao gave a medal. Staff officer Xie Xinping and I have no medals to hang. Some European ambassadors with royal family, such as Portugal, Denmark, Belgium, Ireland, etc. wear uniform, like 19th century generals, wearing red-brimmed uniforms, wearing a row of medals on the uniform, holding a high cap like a French cavalryman, with a long sword at the waist, and handsome hair. Moroccan ambassador is the first and second senior on the left hand of the pope, wearing white robe white cap white cap white shoes. Indonesian ambassador in grey, black square cap and red cloth towel around his waist. The Iranian ambassador is dressed in a Muslim dress with a white turban on his head. The Pakistani ambassador wore a grey round neck top and pants like a uniform. Being in the hall is like returning to the 18th century court described in the movie. Philippine ambassador, young and talented, is of Chinese descent surname Li, can talk simply in southern language. Singapore ambassador, early 40s, very young. Our Asian neighbors are changing quickly and vibrant.
At 10:59 a.m., the hall was suddenly bright and the whole diplomatic corps stood up and waited for the pope to come. At eleven o'clock the pope entered the hall and sat gracefully in the Holy See. Then the first Ivory Coast ambassador on the right hand of the pope stood up to greet the pope in French on behalf of the entire diplomatic community. He praised the Pope's contribution to world peace and hoped that all countries would work together to promote world peace. Then the pope also spoke in French, and the whole was quiet. The pope speaks of "world peace". This is the theme mentioned every year, this year there is more "terrorism" and suffering people under war, famines, and tyranny. There are still many ambitionists in the world who do not listen to the pope's call and use the people as instruments of selfish desires to wage senseless wars. Finally, the pope wished the people of the world a "Happy New Year" in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean
At the end of the speech, the pope walked down the steps, shook hands with the envoys one by one, wished the New Year, then walked to the ladies' table, and stopped specifically, allowing each lady to shake hands with the This is the moment the ladies are looking forward to, ladies are very happy and ordered to take a photo with the pope. The whole event ended around 12 o'clock.
Memories 60 to worship the pope
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Memories 60 to worship the pope
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1. 1. Secretary and couple dressed up
2. The Mrs. Wan pays tribute to the pope
3. 3. Secretary couple and Swiss guard photo
4. 4. 4. Swiss guard, nice uniform, Michelangelo design
5. 5. Guard holding ancient benches on the steps
6. 6. 6. Ambassador Zhou and ambassador of the librarian, thank you staff, secretary Wan
7. The Red circles tag the same photo
8. 8. 8. Mrs. Wan and the Korean secretary wife
9. 9. Ambassador Zhou and the pope
10. 10. Pope John Paul II
「每年的第二個星期六教廷舉辦外交團新年團拜。這是個非常重要的傳統節日，其中過程彷若回到中古世紀。儀式的主題是教宗向全世界人民祝賀新年。教廷和全世界大約190個國家有外交關係，所有各國大使都受邀出席。」
⭐Diplomatic work - birthday to the pope 🌟 Ambassador Wan Jiaxing ️
"The Holy See hosts a diplomatic mission for the New Year on the second Saturday of the year. This is a very important traditional festival in which the process seems to go back to the Middle Ages. The theme of the ceremony is the pope's New Year's greeting to the people of the The Holy See has diplomatic relations with some 190 countries around the world, and all ambassadors are invited to attend. " The "
回憶錄60
向教宗拜年
每年的第二個星期六教廷舉辦外交團新年團拜。這是個非常重要的傳統節日，其中過程彷若回到中古世紀。儀式的主題是教宗向全世界人民祝賀新年。教廷和全世界大約190個國家有外交關係，所有各國大使都受邀出席。
在羅馬的駐教廷大使館約八十多個。其它近百國家的大使館在其它國家，通常是在歐洲國家首都，而派駐教廷為「兼使」。每年此日，很多國家的兼使都會從巴黎倫敦日內瓦等地趕來參加盛會。
大約在每年12月教廷禮賓司發出請帖。請帖上面寫明了舉行日期時間，男士和女士的服裝穿著，停車位置，抵達時間，入座時間，以及請回覆參加人員。這是非常正式的請帖。我就把1987年一月十日我參加的過程向大家介紹。
早晨九點我穿上大禮服。它包括：燕尾服上衣，在羅馬特別服飾店買的禮服專用白襯衫，鑲黑邊黑長褲，白領結，光亮的漆皮皮鞋。我太太全身黑長禮服，頭戴黑紗，耳環胸針是基本配備。穿戴整齊出門碰到社區管理員Marcelo。他眼睛一亮，肅然起敬，向我們夫婦敬禮。
我開車到了當天的活動入口，比爾大門時，前方有一輛賓士轎車插著國旗，應該是某國大使，瑞士衛兵立正敬禮。我們的車是銀灰色富豪，不怎麼起眼，但車牌是CD外交車牌，衛兵也向我們敬禮。進了大門後，全是石塊鋪的道路，這些石塊有五百年歷史。兩旁深宮大殿，壯觀美麗。到了使徒宮的鐘樓廣場，我把車停好，攙扶著穿著半高跟鞋的太太，走進使徒宮。使徒宮走道兩旁衛兵列隊站立，他們保持著中古世紀的打扮，戴著鐵盔手持長戟，腰間配著寶劍，制服是米開朗基羅的設計。衛兵隊長一聲口令，他們向我們夫婦立正敬禮。
瑞士衛兵有歷史傳統。在中世紀教皇國雇用瑞士人當衛兵。1527年5月6日教宗克里蒙七世遭到神聖羅馬帝國的軍隊入侵，瑞士衛兵奮勇抵抗，使得教宗在最緊急時刻，躲開災難。此役189人的衛隊陣亡了147人。此後教廷的衛隊一律向瑞士招募，而瑞士也非常配合，提供教廷適合的兵役年齡男子，每年5月6日就成了新兵入伍宣示效忠教宗的紀念日。
走過使徒宮，進入電梯。電梯中的侍者身穿燕尾服，引領我們到宗座廳，Sala Regia，然後一位資深的領位員問了我們來自那個國家，再把我和太太交給兩位領位員，一位帶著我到外交團我國的席位，另一位引導萬太太到女眷席。
外交團的席位排列明確。按照各國大使呈遞國書的先後順序排列。在教宗的右手邊座位依序是第1，3，5，7，9。左手邊是2，4，6，8，10，以此類推。一眼望去，大約有八九十位大使在座。教宗的遠方正對面，是女士席。全部都是黑禮服，黑壓壓一片，大約五十位。教宗右手邊第一位，也就是外交團團長，是象牙海岸大使。已經任職18年。我國周大使1978年抵任，已經9年，坐在教宗左手方第三位，因此他是外交團第6資深者。在各國大使的後面，依該國使館職銜排座位。我國周大使之後依序是項士揆公使，謝新平參事，萬家興二等秘書。周大使非常關心自己的座位，很不希望向前移動，每年此時他都會看自己的位置離團長多近。因為我國和大多國家沒有邦交，擔任外交團團長會不方便。教廷希望擔任外交團團長的大使，是各國都能接受的人選。當我國大使年資快到前三名，教廷很可能要求更換大使。時年74歲，排名第六的周大使，不希望被換掉。他希望在大使位置「越久越好」。
各國大使的服裝多彩多姿。現場絕大多數穿著燕尾服，大使，公使大多配掛綵帶勳章。我國周大使，配戴彩帶勳章，項公使戴著越南總統阮文紹贈與的一枚勳章，謝新平參事和我沒有勳章可配掛。有些歐洲有王室的老牌國家大使例如葡萄牙，丹麥，比利時，愛爾蘭等國大使穿著戎裝，像是十九世紀的將軍，鑲著紅邊的制服，制服上掛著一排勳章，手持像法國騎兵的高帽，腰間配把長劍，雄姿英發。摩洛哥大使為在教宗左手邊第一位，第二資深，一身白衣白袍白帽白披風白鞋。印尼大使一身灰色服裝，頭戴無邊黑色方帽，腰間繫著紅布巾。伊朗大使一身回教打扮，頭上纏白頭巾。巴基斯坦大使穿著像制服的灰色圓領上裝和長褲。置身大廳彷彿回到電影中描述的十八世紀宮廷。菲律賓大使，年輕有為，是李姓華裔後裔，能簡單閩南語交談。新加坡大使，四十歲出頭，非常年輕。我們的亞洲鄰國大使更換很快，朝氣蓬勃。
十點59分大廳突然大放光明，全體外交團起立，靜待教宗蒞臨。十一時整，教宗進入大廳，優雅地坐在聖座。接著教宗右手邊第一位的象牙海岸大使起立，代表全體外交團以法語向教宗祝賀新年。他讚揚教宗對世界和平的貢獻，希望各國共同努力，促進世界和平。隨後教宗也以法語致詞，全體一片肅靜。教宗提到「世界和平」。這是每年都提到的主題，今年更有「恐怖主義」以及在戰爭，飢荒，苛政之下的苦難人民。世界上仍有許多野心家不聽教宗的呼籲，把人民當作逞遂私欲的工具，進行毫無意義的戰爭。最後教宗用義大利英法德西班牙中日韓等國語言，祝福世界各國人民「新年快樂」。
致詞結束後，教宗走下台階，先和各國使節一一握手，祝賀新年，然後走到女士席，特別停下，允許每位女士和教宗握手合影。這是女士們期待的時刻，女士們很高興，很有秩序地和教宗合影留念。整個活動大約在十二點結束。
回憶錄60 向教宗拜年
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回憶錄60 向教宗拜年
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1. 萬秘書夫婦盛裝出席
2. 萬太太向教宗拜年
3. 萬秘書夫婦和瑞士衛兵合影
4. 瑞士衛兵，制服好帥，米開朗基羅設計
5. 台階上手持古代長戟的衛兵
6. 周大使和館員項公使，謝參事，萬秘書
7. 有紅圈標示同一張照片
8. 萬太太與韓國秘書太太
9. 周大使與教宗
10. 教宗若望保祿二世
Memories 60
Celebrating the Pope's Year
On the second Saturday of the year, the Holy See hosts a diplomatic mission for the New Year. This is a very important traditional festival in which the process seems to go back to the Middle Ages. The theme of the ceremony is the pope's New Year's greeting to the people of the The Holy See has diplomatic relations with some 190 countries around the world, and all ambassadors are invited to attend.
There are about 80 embassies in Rome. Nearly a hundred other countries have embassies in other countries, usually in European capitals, and are assigned to the Holy See as "participants". Every year on this day, envoys from many countries come from Paris, London, Geneva and other places to attend the event.
Invitation is sent out by the Holy See concierge around December every year. Invitation notes date and time, men's and women's clothing, parking location, arrival time, seating time, and please reply to attend. This is a very formal invitation. I'll introduce you to the process I participated in on January 10, 1987.
I put on a big dress at 9am. It includes: tuxedo top, white shirt for dress bought at a special clothing store in Rome, black pants with black edges, white bowtie, shiny leather shoes. My wife has a long black dress, black hair, earrings brooch is basic. Going out dressed up and ran into community admin Marcelo. His eyes brightened, and he saluted us couple.
I drove to the entrance of the day's event, Bill Gate, and there was a Mercedes brakes in front of me with the national flag, supposed to be the ambassador of a certain country, the Swiss guard saluted. Our car is silver grey rich, not much eye-catching, but the license plate is CD diplomatic license plate, and the guards salute us. After entering the gate, the road is full of stone blocks that are five hundred years old. Deep palace halls on both sides, spectacularly beautiful. Arrived at the bell tower square of the Apostles' Palace, I parked my car and walked into the Apostles' Palace with my wife in half heels. Guard standing in line with the aisle of the Apostolic Palace, they keep their medieval dress, wearing iron helmets and holding a bench, swords around the waist, uniforms designed by Michelangelo. The captain of the guard gave a message and they saluted our couple.
The Swiss Guard has a historical tradition. The Swiss were employed as guards in the medieval Papal States. On 6 May 1527 Pope Clemont VII was invaded by the troops of the Holy Roman Empire, and the Swiss guards fought bravely, allowing the pope to avoid disaster in the most urgent moment. The 189-man guard died 147 in action. Since then, the Holy See's guards have been recruited to Switzerland, and Switzerland has been very cooperative, providing the Holy See with men of military age, and May 6 every year marks the anniversary of the recruitment of recruits to declare loyalty to the pope.
Walk through the Apostles' Palace and enter the elevator. The waiter in the elevator in tuxedo led us to the Apostolic Hall, Sala Regia, and then a senior leader asked us what country we came from, then handed me and my wife to two chiefs, one who took me to our seat in the diplomatic corps and the other who guided Mrs. Wan to the women's table.
The seats in the diplomatic corps are clearly arranged. Listed according to the order in which the ambassadors submitted their national letters. The seat on the right hand of the pope is 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 in order. Left hand is 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and so on. At a glance, there are about 80 or 90 ambassadors present. The pope's far opposite is the ladies' table. All black dresses, black pressed one piece, about fifty. The first person on the right hand of the pope, the head of the diplomatic mission, is the Ivory Coast 18 years in office. Nine years since our Ambassador arrived in 1978 and sits third on the left hand of the pope, so he is the 6th senior member of the diplomatic corps. Behind each country's ambassadors, seats are lined up according to the country's embassy job. After our Ambassador Zhou, in order, he was Minister Xiang Shizheng, Director Xie Xinping, Second Secretary Wan Jiaxing. Ambassador Zhou is very concerned about his seat and does not want to move forward, every year at this time he looks at how close he is to the head of the team Because our country and most countries have no diplomatic relations, it is inconvenient to be the head of the diplomatic mission. The ambassador the Holy See wants to serve as head of the diplomatic mission is a person acceptable to all countries. When our ambassadors reach the top three, the Holy See is likely to ask for a change of ambassadors. 74 years old, sixth-ranked ambassador of the week, don't want to be replaced. He hopes that "the longer the better" in the ambassador position.
The costumes of ambassadors are colorful. Most of the scene were wearing tuxedo, ambassadors, and ministers mostly with hanging bands. Our Ambassador Zhou, wearing a ribbon medal, and Minister Niang wearing a medal from Vietnam President Mr. Nguyen Wen Shao gave a medal. Staff officer Xie Xinping and I have no medals to hang. Some European ambassadors with royal family, such as Portugal, Denmark, Belgium, Ireland, etc. wear uniform, like 19th century generals, wearing red-brimmed uniforms, wearing a row of medals on the uniform, holding a high cap like a French cavalryman, with a long sword at the waist, and handsome hair. Moroccan ambassador is the first and second senior on the left hand of the pope, wearing white robe white cap white cap white shoes. Indonesian ambassador in grey, black square cap and red cloth towel around his waist. The Iranian ambassador is dressed in a Muslim dress with a white turban on his head. The Pakistani ambassador wore a grey round neck top and pants like a uniform. Being in the hall is like returning to the 18th century court described in the movie. Philippine ambassador, young and talented, is of Chinese descent surname Li, can talk simply in southern language. Singapore ambassador, early 40s, very young. Our Asian neighbors are changing quickly and vibrant.
At 10:59 a.m., the hall was suddenly bright and the whole diplomatic corps stood up and waited for the pope to come. At eleven o'clock the pope entered the hall and sat gracefully in the Holy See. Then the first Ivory Coast ambassador on the right hand of the pope stood up to greet the pope in French on behalf of the entire diplomatic community. He praised the Pope's contribution to world peace and hoped that all countries would work together to promote world peace. Then the pope also spoke in French, and the whole was quiet. The pope speaks of "world peace". This is the theme mentioned every year, this year there is more "terrorism" and suffering people under war, famines, and tyranny. There are still many ambitionists in the world who do not listen to the pope's call and use the people as instruments of selfish desires to wage senseless wars. Finally, the pope wished the people of the world a "Happy New Year" in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean
At the end of the speech, the pope walked down the steps, shook hands with the envoys one by one, wished the New Year, then walked to the ladies' table, and stopped specifically, allowing each lady to shake hands with the This is the moment the ladies are looking forward to, ladies are very happy and ordered to take a photo with the pope. The whole event ended around 12 o'clock.
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1. 1. Secretary and couple dressed up
2. The Mrs. Wan pays tribute to the pope
3. 3. Secretary couple and Swiss guard photo
4. 4. 4. Swiss guard, nice uniform, Michelangelo design
5. 5. Guard holding ancient benches on the steps
6. 6. 6. Ambassador Zhou and ambassador of the librarian, thank you staff, secretary Wan
7. The Red circles tag the same photo
8. 8. 8. Mrs. Wan and the Korean secretary wife
9. 9. Ambassador Zhou and the pope
10. 10. Pope John Paul II
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⭐️外交工作- 向教宗拜年🌟 萬家興大使⭐️
「每年的第二個星期六教廷舉辦外交團新年團拜。這是個非常重要的傳統節日，其中過程彷若回到中古世紀。儀式的主題是教宗向全世界人民祝賀新年。教廷和全世界大約190個國家有外交關係，所有各國大使都受邀出席。」
⭐Diplomatic work - birthday to the pope 🌟 Ambassador Wan Jiaxing ️
"The Holy See hosts a diplomatic mission for the New Year on the second Saturday of the year. This is a very important traditional festival in which the process seems to go back to the Middle Ages. The theme of the ceremony is the pope's New Year's greeting to the people of the The Holy See has diplomatic relations with some 190 countries around the world, and all ambassadors are invited to attend. " The "
回憶錄60
向教宗拜年
每年的第二個星期六教廷舉辦外交團新年團拜。這是個非常重要的傳統節日，其中過程彷若回到中古世紀。儀式的主題是教宗向全世界人民祝賀新年。教廷和全世界大約190個國家有外交關係，所有各國大使都受邀出席。
在羅馬的駐教廷大使館約八十多個。其它近百國家的大使館在其它國家，通常是在歐洲國家首都，而派駐教廷為「兼使」。每年此日，很多國家的兼使都會從巴黎倫敦日內瓦等地趕來參加盛會。
大約在每年12月教廷禮賓司發出請帖。請帖上面寫明了舉行日期時間，男士和女士的服裝穿著，停車位置，抵達時間，入座時間，以及請回覆參加人員。這是非常正式的請帖。我就把1987年一月十日我參加的過程向大家介紹。
早晨九點我穿上大禮服。它包括：燕尾服上衣，在羅馬特別服飾店買的禮服專用白襯衫，鑲黑邊黑長褲，白領結，光亮的漆皮皮鞋。我太太全身黑長禮服，頭戴黑紗，耳環胸針是基本配備。穿戴整齊出門碰到社區管理員Marcelo。他眼睛一亮，肅然起敬，向我們夫婦敬禮。
我開車到了當天的活動入口，比爾大門時，前方有一輛賓士轎車插著國旗，應該是某國大使，瑞士衛兵立正敬禮。我們的車是銀灰色富豪，不怎麼起眼，但車牌是CD外交車牌，衛兵也向我們敬禮。進了大門後，全是石塊鋪的道路，這些石塊有五百年歷史。兩旁深宮大殿，壯觀美麗。到了使徒宮的鐘樓廣場，我把車停好，攙扶著穿著半高跟鞋的太太，走進使徒宮。使徒宮走道兩旁衛兵列隊站立，他們保持著中古世紀的打扮，戴著鐵盔手持長戟，腰間配著寶劍，制服是米開朗基羅的設計。衛兵隊長一聲口令，他們向我們夫婦立正敬禮。
瑞士衛兵有歷史傳統。在中世紀教皇國雇用瑞士人當衛兵。1527年5月6日教宗克里蒙七世遭到神聖羅馬帝國的軍隊入侵，瑞士衛兵奮勇抵抗，使得教宗在最緊急時刻，躲開災難。此役189人的衛隊陣亡了147人。此後教廷的衛隊一律向瑞士招募，而瑞士也非常配合，提供教廷適合的兵役年齡男子，每年5月6日就成了新兵入伍宣示效忠教宗的紀念日。
走過使徒宮，進入電梯。電梯中的侍者身穿燕尾服，引領我們到宗座廳，Sala Regia，然後一位資深的領位員問了我們來自那個國家，再把我和太太交給兩位領位員，一位帶著我到外交團我國的席位，另一位引導萬太太到女眷席。
外交團的席位排列明確。按照各國大使呈遞國書的先後順序排列。在教宗的右手邊座位依序是第1，3，5，7，9。左手邊是2，4，6，8，10，以此類推。一眼望去，大約有八九十位大使在座。教宗的遠方正對面，是女士席。全部都是黑禮服，黑壓壓一片，大約五十位。教宗右手邊第一位，也就是外交團團長，是象牙海岸大使。已經任職18年。我國周大使1978年抵任，已經9年，坐在教宗左手方第三位，因此他是外交團第6資深者。在各國大使的後面，依該國使館職銜排座位。我國周大使之後依序是項士揆公使，謝新平參事，萬家興二等秘書。周大使非常關心自己的座位，很不希望向前移動，每年此時他都會看自己的位置離團長多近。因為我國和大多國家沒有邦交，擔任外交團團長會不方便。教廷希望擔任外交團團長的大使，是各國都能接受的人選。當我國大使年資快到前三名，教廷很可能要求更換大使。時年74歲，排名第六的周大使，不希望被換掉。他希望在大使位置「越久越好」。
各國大使的服裝多彩多姿。現場絕大多數穿著燕尾服，大使，公使大多配掛綵帶勳章。我國周大使，配戴彩帶勳章，項公使戴著越南總統阮文紹贈與的一枚勳章，謝新平參事和我沒有勳章可配掛。有些歐洲有王室的老牌國家大使例如葡萄牙，丹麥，比利時，愛爾蘭等國大使穿著戎裝，像是十九世紀的將軍，鑲著紅邊的制服，制服上掛著一排勳章，手持像法國騎兵的高帽，腰間配把長劍，雄姿英發。摩洛哥大使為在教宗左手邊第一位，第二資深，一身白衣白袍白帽白披風白鞋。印尼大使一身灰色服裝，頭戴無邊黑色方帽，腰間繫著紅布巾。伊朗大使一身回教打扮，頭上纏白頭巾。巴基斯坦大使穿著像制服的灰色圓領上裝和長褲。置身大廳彷彿回到電影中描述的十八世紀宮廷。菲律賓大使，年輕有為，是李姓華裔後裔，能簡單閩南語交談。新加坡大使，四十歲出頭，非常年輕。我們的亞洲鄰國大使更換很快，朝氣蓬勃。
十點59分大廳突然大放光明，全體外交團起立，靜待教宗蒞臨。十一時整，教宗進入大廳，優雅地坐在聖座。接著教宗右手邊第一位的象牙海岸大使起立，代表全體外交團以法語向教宗祝賀新年。他讚揚教宗對世界和平的貢獻，希望各國共同努力，促進世界和平。隨後教宗也以法語致詞，全體一片肅靜。教宗提到「世界和平」。這是每年都提到的主題，今年更有「恐怖主義」以及在戰爭，飢荒，苛政之下的苦難人民。世界上仍有許多野心家不聽教宗的呼籲，把人民當作逞遂私欲的工具，進行毫無意義的戰爭。最後教宗用義大利英法德西班牙中日韓等國語言，祝福世界各國人民「新年快樂」。
致詞結束後，教宗走下台階，先和各國使節一一握手，祝賀新年，然後走到女士席，特別停下，允許每位女士和教宗握手合影。這是女士們期待的時刻，女士們很高興，很有秩序地和教宗合影留念。整個活動大約在十二點結束。
回憶錄60 向教宗拜年
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圖片說明：貼文日期2021.08.12
1. 萬秘書夫婦盛裝出席
2. 萬太太向教宗拜年
3. 萬秘書夫婦和瑞士衛兵合影
4. 瑞士衛兵，制服好帥，米開朗基羅設計
5. 台階上手持古代長戟的衛兵
6. 周大使和館員項公使，謝參事，萬秘書
7. 有紅圈標示同一張照片
8. 萬太太與韓國秘書太太
9. 周大使與教宗
10. 教宗若望保祿二世
Memories 60
Celebrating the Pope's Year
On the second Saturday of the year, the Holy See hosts a diplomatic mission for the New Year. This is a very important traditional festival in which the process seems to go back to the Middle Ages. The theme of the ceremony is the pope's New Year's greeting to the people of the The Holy See has diplomatic relations with some 190 countries around the world, and all ambassadors are invited to attend.
There are about 80 embassies in Rome. Nearly a hundred other countries have embassies in other countries, usually in European capitals, and are assigned to the Holy See as "participants". Every year on this day, envoys from many countries come from Paris, London, Geneva and other places to attend the event.
Invitation is sent out by the Holy See concierge around December every year. Invitation notes date and time, men's and women's clothing, parking location, arrival time, seating time, and please reply to attend. This is a very formal invitation. I'll introduce you to the process I participated in on January 10, 1987.
I put on a big dress at 9am. It includes: tuxedo top, white shirt for dress bought at a special clothing store in Rome, black pants with black edges, white bowtie, shiny leather shoes. My wife has a long black dress, black hair, earrings brooch is basic. Going out dressed up and ran into community admin Marcelo. His eyes brightened, and he saluted us couple.
I drove to the entrance of the day's event, Bill Gate, and there was a Mercedes brakes in front of me with the national flag, supposed to be the ambassador of a certain country, the Swiss guard saluted. Our car is silver grey rich, not much eye-catching, but the license plate is CD diplomatic license plate, and the guards salute us. After entering the gate, the road is full of stone blocks that are five hundred years old. Deep palace halls on both sides, spectacularly beautiful. Arrived at the bell tower square of the Apostles' Palace, I parked my car and walked into the Apostles' Palace with my wife in half heels. Guard standing in line with the aisle of the Apostolic Palace, they keep their medieval dress, wearing iron helmets and holding a bench, swords around the waist, uniforms designed by Michelangelo. The captain of the guard gave a message and they saluted our couple.
The Swiss Guard has a historical tradition. The Swiss were employed as guards in the medieval Papal States. On 6 May 1527 Pope Clemont VII was invaded by the troops of the Holy Roman Empire, and the Swiss guards fought bravely, allowing the pope to avoid disaster in the most urgent moment. The 189-man guard died 147 in action. Since then, the Holy See's guards have been recruited to Switzerland, and Switzerland has been very cooperative, providing the Holy See with men of military age, and May 6 every year marks the anniversary of the recruitment of recruits to declare loyalty to the pope.
Walk through the Apostles' Palace and enter the elevator. The waiter in the elevator in tuxedo led us to the Apostolic Hall, Sala Regia, and then a senior leader asked us what country we came from, then handed me and my wife to two chiefs, one who took me to our seat in the diplomatic corps and the other who guided Mrs. Wan to the women's table.
The seats in the diplomatic corps are clearly arranged. Listed according to the order in which the ambassadors submitted their national letters. The seat on the right hand of the pope is 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 in order. Left hand is 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and so on. At a glance, there are about 80 or 90 ambassadors present. The pope's far opposite is the ladies' table. All black dresses, black pressed one piece, about fifty. The first person on the right hand of the pope, the head of the diplomatic mission, is the Ivory Coast 18 years in office. Nine years since our Ambassador arrived in 1978 and sits third on the left hand of the pope, so he is the 6th senior member of the diplomatic corps. Behind each country's ambassadors, seats are lined up according to the country's embassy job. After our Ambassador Zhou, in order, he was Minister Xiang Shizheng, Director Xie Xinping, Second Secretary Wan Jiaxing. Ambassador Zhou is very concerned about his seat and does not want to move forward, every year at this time he looks at how close he is to the head of the team Because our country and most countries have no diplomatic relations, it is inconvenient to be the head of the diplomatic mission. The ambassador the Holy See wants to serve as head of the diplomatic mission is a person acceptable to all countries. When our ambassadors reach the top three, the Holy See is likely to ask for a change of ambassadors. 74 years old, sixth-ranked ambassador of the week, don't want to be replaced. He hopes that "the longer the better" in the ambassador position.
The costumes of ambassadors are colorful. Most of the scene were wearing tuxedo, ambassadors, and ministers mostly with hanging bands. Our Ambassador Zhou, wearing a ribbon medal, and Minister Niang wearing a medal from Vietnam President Mr. Nguyen Wen Shao gave a medal. Staff officer Xie Xinping and I have no medals to hang. Some European ambassadors with royal family, such as Portugal, Denmark, Belgium, Ireland, etc. wear uniform, like 19th century generals, wearing red-brimmed uniforms, wearing a row of medals on the uniform, holding a high cap like a French cavalryman, with a long sword at the waist, and handsome hair. Moroccan ambassador is the first and second senior on the left hand of the pope, wearing white robe white cap white cap white shoes. Indonesian ambassador in grey, black square cap and red cloth towel around his waist. The Iranian ambassador is dressed in a Muslim dress with a white turban on his head. The Pakistani ambassador wore a grey round neck top and pants like a uniform. Being in the hall is like returning to the 18th century court described in the movie. Philippine ambassador, young and talented, is of Chinese descent surname Li, can talk simply in southern language. Singapore ambassador, early 40s, very young. Our Asian neighbors are changing quickly and vibrant.
At 10:59 a.m., the hall was suddenly bright and the whole diplomatic corps stood up and waited for the pope to come. At eleven o'clock the pope entered the hall and sat gracefully in the Holy See. Then the first Ivory Coast ambassador on the right hand of the pope stood up to greet the pope in French on behalf of the entire diplomatic community. He praised the Pope's contribution to world peace and hoped that all countries would work together to promote world peace. Then the pope also spoke in French, and the whole was quiet. The pope speaks of "world peace". This is the theme mentioned every year, this year there is more "terrorism" and suffering people under war, famines, and tyranny. There are still many ambitionists in the world who do not listen to the pope's call and use the people as instruments of selfish desires to wage senseless wars. Finally, the pope wished the people of the world a "Happy New Year" in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean
At the end of the speech, the pope walked down the steps, shook hands with the envoys one by one, wished the New Year, then walked to the ladies' table, and stopped specifically, allowing each lady to shake hands with the This is the moment the ladies are looking forward to, ladies are very happy and ordered to take a photo with the pope. The whole event ended around 12 o'clock.
Memories 60 to worship the pope
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Memories 60 to worship the pope
Photo caption: Post date 2021.08.12
1. 1. Secretary and couple dressed up
2. The Mrs. Wan pays tribute to the pope
3. 3. Secretary couple and Swiss guard photo
4. 4. 4. Swiss guard, nice uniform, Michelangelo design
5. 5. Guard holding ancient benches on the steps
6. 6. 6. Ambassador Zhou and ambassador of the librarian, thank you staff, secretary Wan
7. The Red circles tag the same photo
8. 8. 8. Mrs. Wan and the Korean secretary wife
9. 9. Ambassador Zhou and the pope
10. 10. Pope John Paul II
「每年的第二個星期六教廷舉辦外交團新年團拜。這是個非常重要的傳統節日，其中過程彷若回到中古世紀。儀式的主題是教宗向全世界人民祝賀新年。教廷和全世界大約190個國家有外交關係，所有各國大使都受邀出席。」
⭐Diplomatic work - birthday to the pope 🌟 Ambassador Wan Jiaxing ️
"The Holy See hosts a diplomatic mission for the New Year on the second Saturday of the year. This is a very important traditional festival in which the process seems to go back to the Middle Ages. The theme of the ceremony is the pope's New Year's greeting to the people of the The Holy See has diplomatic relations with some 190 countries around the world, and all ambassadors are invited to attend. " The "
回憶錄60
向教宗拜年
每年的第二個星期六教廷舉辦外交團新年團拜。這是個非常重要的傳統節日，其中過程彷若回到中古世紀。儀式的主題是教宗向全世界人民祝賀新年。教廷和全世界大約190個國家有外交關係，所有各國大使都受邀出席。
在羅馬的駐教廷大使館約八十多個。其它近百國家的大使館在其它國家，通常是在歐洲國家首都，而派駐教廷為「兼使」。每年此日，很多國家的兼使都會從巴黎倫敦日內瓦等地趕來參加盛會。
大約在每年12月教廷禮賓司發出請帖。請帖上面寫明了舉行日期時間，男士和女士的服裝穿著，停車位置，抵達時間，入座時間，以及請回覆參加人員。這是非常正式的請帖。我就把1987年一月十日我參加的過程向大家介紹。
早晨九點我穿上大禮服。它包括：燕尾服上衣，在羅馬特別服飾店買的禮服專用白襯衫，鑲黑邊黑長褲，白領結，光亮的漆皮皮鞋。我太太全身黑長禮服，頭戴黑紗，耳環胸針是基本配備。穿戴整齊出門碰到社區管理員Marcelo。他眼睛一亮，肅然起敬，向我們夫婦敬禮。
我開車到了當天的活動入口，比爾大門時，前方有一輛賓士轎車插著國旗，應該是某國大使，瑞士衛兵立正敬禮。我們的車是銀灰色富豪，不怎麼起眼，但車牌是CD外交車牌，衛兵也向我們敬禮。進了大門後，全是石塊鋪的道路，這些石塊有五百年歷史。兩旁深宮大殿，壯觀美麗。到了使徒宮的鐘樓廣場，我把車停好，攙扶著穿著半高跟鞋的太太，走進使徒宮。使徒宮走道兩旁衛兵列隊站立，他們保持著中古世紀的打扮，戴著鐵盔手持長戟，腰間配著寶劍，制服是米開朗基羅的設計。衛兵隊長一聲口令，他們向我們夫婦立正敬禮。
瑞士衛兵有歷史傳統。在中世紀教皇國雇用瑞士人當衛兵。1527年5月6日教宗克里蒙七世遭到神聖羅馬帝國的軍隊入侵，瑞士衛兵奮勇抵抗，使得教宗在最緊急時刻，躲開災難。此役189人的衛隊陣亡了147人。此後教廷的衛隊一律向瑞士招募，而瑞士也非常配合，提供教廷適合的兵役年齡男子，每年5月6日就成了新兵入伍宣示效忠教宗的紀念日。
走過使徒宮，進入電梯。電梯中的侍者身穿燕尾服，引領我們到宗座廳，Sala Regia，然後一位資深的領位員問了我們來自那個國家，再把我和太太交給兩位領位員，一位帶著我到外交團我國的席位，另一位引導萬太太到女眷席。
外交團的席位排列明確。按照各國大使呈遞國書的先後順序排列。在教宗的右手邊座位依序是第1，3，5，7，9。左手邊是2，4，6，8，10，以此類推。一眼望去，大約有八九十位大使在座。教宗的遠方正對面，是女士席。全部都是黑禮服，黑壓壓一片，大約五十位。教宗右手邊第一位，也就是外交團團長，是象牙海岸大使。已經任職18年。我國周大使1978年抵任，已經9年，坐在教宗左手方第三位，因此他是外交團第6資深者。在各國大使的後面，依該國使館職銜排座位。我國周大使之後依序是項士揆公使，謝新平參事，萬家興二等秘書。周大使非常關心自己的座位，很不希望向前移動，每年此時他都會看自己的位置離團長多近。因為我國和大多國家沒有邦交，擔任外交團團長會不方便。教廷希望擔任外交團團長的大使，是各國都能接受的人選。當我國大使年資快到前三名，教廷很可能要求更換大使。時年74歲，排名第六的周大使，不希望被換掉。他希望在大使位置「越久越好」。
各國大使的服裝多彩多姿。現場絕大多數穿著燕尾服，大使，公使大多配掛綵帶勳章。我國周大使，配戴彩帶勳章，項公使戴著越南總統阮文紹贈與的一枚勳章，謝新平參事和我沒有勳章可配掛。有些歐洲有王室的老牌國家大使例如葡萄牙，丹麥，比利時，愛爾蘭等國大使穿著戎裝，像是十九世紀的將軍，鑲著紅邊的制服，制服上掛著一排勳章，手持像法國騎兵的高帽，腰間配把長劍，雄姿英發。摩洛哥大使為在教宗左手邊第一位，第二資深，一身白衣白袍白帽白披風白鞋。印尼大使一身灰色服裝，頭戴無邊黑色方帽，腰間繫著紅布巾。伊朗大使一身回教打扮，頭上纏白頭巾。巴基斯坦大使穿著像制服的灰色圓領上裝和長褲。置身大廳彷彿回到電影中描述的十八世紀宮廷。菲律賓大使，年輕有為，是李姓華裔後裔，能簡單閩南語交談。新加坡大使，四十歲出頭，非常年輕。我們的亞洲鄰國大使更換很快，朝氣蓬勃。
十點59分大廳突然大放光明，全體外交團起立，靜待教宗蒞臨。十一時整，教宗進入大廳，優雅地坐在聖座。接著教宗右手邊第一位的象牙海岸大使起立，代表全體外交團以法語向教宗祝賀新年。他讚揚教宗對世界和平的貢獻，希望各國共同努力，促進世界和平。隨後教宗也以法語致詞，全體一片肅靜。教宗提到「世界和平」。這是每年都提到的主題，今年更有「恐怖主義」以及在戰爭，飢荒，苛政之下的苦難人民。世界上仍有許多野心家不聽教宗的呼籲，把人民當作逞遂私欲的工具，進行毫無意義的戰爭。最後教宗用義大利英法德西班牙中日韓等國語言，祝福世界各國人民「新年快樂」。
致詞結束後，教宗走下台階，先和各國使節一一握手，祝賀新年，然後走到女士席，特別停下，允許每位女士和教宗握手合影。這是女士們期待的時刻，女士們很高興，很有秩序地和教宗合影留念。整個活動大約在十二點結束。
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1. 萬秘書夫婦盛裝出席
2. 萬太太向教宗拜年
3. 萬秘書夫婦和瑞士衛兵合影
4. 瑞士衛兵，制服好帥，米開朗基羅設計
5. 台階上手持古代長戟的衛兵
6. 周大使和館員項公使，謝參事，萬秘書
7. 有紅圈標示同一張照片
8. 萬太太與韓國秘書太太
9. 周大使與教宗
10. 教宗若望保祿二世
Memories 60
Celebrating the Pope's Year
On the second Saturday of the year, the Holy See hosts a diplomatic mission for the New Year. This is a very important traditional festival in which the process seems to go back to the Middle Ages. The theme of the ceremony is the pope's New Year's greeting to the people of the The Holy See has diplomatic relations with some 190 countries around the world, and all ambassadors are invited to attend.
There are about 80 embassies in Rome. Nearly a hundred other countries have embassies in other countries, usually in European capitals, and are assigned to the Holy See as "participants". Every year on this day, envoys from many countries come from Paris, London, Geneva and other places to attend the event.
Invitation is sent out by the Holy See concierge around December every year. Invitation notes date and time, men's and women's clothing, parking location, arrival time, seating time, and please reply to attend. This is a very formal invitation. I'll introduce you to the process I participated in on January 10, 1987.
I put on a big dress at 9am. It includes: tuxedo top, white shirt for dress bought at a special clothing store in Rome, black pants with black edges, white bowtie, shiny leather shoes. My wife has a long black dress, black hair, earrings brooch is basic. Going out dressed up and ran into community admin Marcelo. His eyes brightened, and he saluted us couple.
I drove to the entrance of the day's event, Bill Gate, and there was a Mercedes brakes in front of me with the national flag, supposed to be the ambassador of a certain country, the Swiss guard saluted. Our car is silver grey rich, not much eye-catching, but the license plate is CD diplomatic license plate, and the guards salute us. After entering the gate, the road is full of stone blocks that are five hundred years old. Deep palace halls on both sides, spectacularly beautiful. Arrived at the bell tower square of the Apostles' Palace, I parked my car and walked into the Apostles' Palace with my wife in half heels. Guard standing in line with the aisle of the Apostolic Palace, they keep their medieval dress, wearing iron helmets and holding a bench, swords around the waist, uniforms designed by Michelangelo. The captain of the guard gave a message and they saluted our couple.
The Swiss Guard has a historical tradition. The Swiss were employed as guards in the medieval Papal States. On 6 May 1527 Pope Clemont VII was invaded by the troops of the Holy Roman Empire, and the Swiss guards fought bravely, allowing the pope to avoid disaster in the most urgent moment. The 189-man guard died 147 in action. Since then, the Holy See's guards have been recruited to Switzerland, and Switzerland has been very cooperative, providing the Holy See with men of military age, and May 6 every year marks the anniversary of the recruitment of recruits to declare loyalty to the pope.
Walk through the Apostles' Palace and enter the elevator. The waiter in the elevator in tuxedo led us to the Apostolic Hall, Sala Regia, and then a senior leader asked us what country we came from, then handed me and my wife to two chiefs, one who took me to our seat in the diplomatic corps and the other who guided Mrs. Wan to the women's table.
The seats in the diplomatic corps are clearly arranged. Listed according to the order in which the ambassadors submitted their national letters. The seat on the right hand of the pope is 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 in order. Left hand is 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and so on. At a glance, there are about 80 or 90 ambassadors present. The pope's far opposite is the ladies' table. All black dresses, black pressed one piece, about fifty. The first person on the right hand of the pope, the head of the diplomatic mission, is the Ivory Coast 18 years in office. Nine years since our Ambassador arrived in 1978 and sits third on the left hand of the pope, so he is the 6th senior member of the diplomatic corps. Behind each country's ambassadors, seats are lined up according to the country's embassy job. After our Ambassador Zhou, in order, he was Minister Xiang Shizheng, Director Xie Xinping, Second Secretary Wan Jiaxing. Ambassador Zhou is very concerned about his seat and does not want to move forward, every year at this time he looks at how close he is to the head of the team Because our country and most countries have no diplomatic relations, it is inconvenient to be the head of the diplomatic mission. The ambassador the Holy See wants to serve as head of the diplomatic mission is a person acceptable to all countries. When our ambassadors reach the top three, the Holy See is likely to ask for a change of ambassadors. 74 years old, sixth-ranked ambassador of the week, don't want to be replaced. He hopes that "the longer the better" in the ambassador position.
The costumes of ambassadors are colorful. Most of the scene were wearing tuxedo, ambassadors, and ministers mostly with hanging bands. Our Ambassador Zhou, wearing a ribbon medal, and Minister Niang wearing a medal from Vietnam President Mr. Nguyen Wen Shao gave a medal. Staff officer Xie Xinping and I have no medals to hang. Some European ambassadors with royal family, such as Portugal, Denmark, Belgium, Ireland, etc. wear uniform, like 19th century generals, wearing red-brimmed uniforms, wearing a row of medals on the uniform, holding a high cap like a French cavalryman, with a long sword at the waist, and handsome hair. Moroccan ambassador is the first and second senior on the left hand of the pope, wearing white robe white cap white cap white shoes. Indonesian ambassador in grey, black square cap and red cloth towel around his waist. The Iranian ambassador is dressed in a Muslim dress with a white turban on his head. The Pakistani ambassador wore a grey round neck top and pants like a uniform. Being in the hall is like returning to the 18th century court described in the movie. Philippine ambassador, young and talented, is of Chinese descent surname Li, can talk simply in southern language. Singapore ambassador, early 40s, very young. Our Asian neighbors are changing quickly and vibrant.
At 10:59 a.m., the hall was suddenly bright and the whole diplomatic corps stood up and waited for the pope to come. At eleven o'clock the pope entered the hall and sat gracefully in the Holy See. Then the first Ivory Coast ambassador on the right hand of the pope stood up to greet the pope in French on behalf of the entire diplomatic community. He praised the Pope's contribution to world peace and hoped that all countries would work together to promote world peace. Then the pope also spoke in French, and the whole was quiet. The pope speaks of "world peace". This is the theme mentioned every year, this year there is more "terrorism" and suffering people under war, famines, and tyranny. There are still many ambitionists in the world who do not listen to the pope's call and use the people as instruments of selfish desires to wage senseless wars. Finally, the pope wished the people of the world a "Happy New Year" in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean
At the end of the speech, the pope walked down the steps, shook hands with the envoys one by one, wished the New Year, then walked to the ladies' table, and stopped specifically, allowing each lady to shake hands with the This is the moment the ladies are looking forward to, ladies are very happy and ordered to take a photo with the pope. The whole event ended around 12 o'clock.
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1. 1. Secretary and couple dressed up
2. The Mrs. Wan pays tribute to the pope
3. 3. Secretary couple and Swiss guard photo
4. 4. 4. Swiss guard, nice uniform, Michelangelo design
5. 5. Guard holding ancient benches on the steps
6. 6. 6. Ambassador Zhou and ambassador of the librarian, thank you staff, secretary Wan
7. The Red circles tag the same photo
8. 8. 8. Mrs. Wan and the Korean secretary wife
9. 9. Ambassador Zhou and the pope
10. 10. Pope John Paul II
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⭐️外交工作- 向教宗拜年🌟 萬家興大使⭐️
「每年的第二個星期六教廷舉辦外交團新年團拜。這是個非常重要的傳統節日，其中過程彷若回到中古世紀。儀式的主題是教宗向全世界人民祝賀新年。教廷和全世界大約190個國家有外交關係，所有各國大使都受邀出席。」
⭐Diplomatic work - birthday to the pope 🌟 Ambassador Wan Jiaxing ️
"The Holy See hosts a diplomatic mission for the New Year on the second Saturday of the year. This is a very important traditional festival in which the process seems to go back to the Middle Ages. The theme of the ceremony is the pope's New Year's greeting to the people of the The Holy See has diplomatic relations with some 190 countries around the world, and all ambassadors are invited to attend. " The "
回憶錄60
向教宗拜年
每年的第二個星期六教廷舉辦外交團新年團拜。這是個非常重要的傳統節日，其中過程彷若回到中古世紀。儀式的主題是教宗向全世界人民祝賀新年。教廷和全世界大約190個國家有外交關係，所有各國大使都受邀出席。
在羅馬的駐教廷大使館約八十多個。其它近百國家的大使館在其它國家，通常是在歐洲國家首都，而派駐教廷為「兼使」。每年此日，很多國家的兼使都會從巴黎倫敦日內瓦等地趕來參加盛會。
大約在每年12月教廷禮賓司發出請帖。請帖上面寫明了舉行日期時間，男士和女士的服裝穿著，停車位置，抵達時間，入座時間，以及請回覆參加人員。這是非常正式的請帖。我就把1987年一月十日我參加的過程向大家介紹。
早晨九點我穿上大禮服。它包括：燕尾服上衣，在羅馬特別服飾店買的禮服專用白襯衫，鑲黑邊黑長褲，白領結，光亮的漆皮皮鞋。我太太全身黑長禮服，頭戴黑紗，耳環胸針是基本配備。穿戴整齊出門碰到社區管理員Marcelo。他眼睛一亮，肅然起敬，向我們夫婦敬禮。
我開車到了當天的活動入口，比爾大門時，前方有一輛賓士轎車插著國旗，應該是某國大使，瑞士衛兵立正敬禮。我們的車是銀灰色富豪，不怎麼起眼，但車牌是CD外交車牌，衛兵也向我們敬禮。進了大門後，全是石塊鋪的道路，這些石塊有五百年歷史。兩旁深宮大殿，壯觀美麗。到了使徒宮的鐘樓廣場，我把車停好，攙扶著穿著半高跟鞋的太太，走進使徒宮。使徒宮走道兩旁衛兵列隊站立，他們保持著中古世紀的打扮，戴著鐵盔手持長戟，腰間配著寶劍，制服是米開朗基羅的設計。衛兵隊長一聲口令，他們向我們夫婦立正敬禮。
瑞士衛兵有歷史傳統。在中世紀教皇國雇用瑞士人當衛兵。1527年5月6日教宗克里蒙七世遭到神聖羅馬帝國的軍隊入侵，瑞士衛兵奮勇抵抗，使得教宗在最緊急時刻，躲開災難。此役189人的衛隊陣亡了147人。此後教廷的衛隊一律向瑞士招募，而瑞士也非常配合，提供教廷適合的兵役年齡男子，每年5月6日就成了新兵入伍宣示效忠教宗的紀念日。
走過使徒宮，進入電梯。電梯中的侍者身穿燕尾服，引領我們到宗座廳，Sala Regia，然後一位資深的領位員問了我們來自那個國家，再把我和太太交給兩位領位員，一位帶著我到外交團我國的席位，另一位引導萬太太到女眷席。
外交團的席位排列明確。按照各國大使呈遞國書的先後順序排列。在教宗的右手邊座位依序是第1，3，5，7，9。左手邊是2，4，6，8，10，以此類推。一眼望去，大約有八九十位大使在座。教宗的遠方正對面，是女士席。全部都是黑禮服，黑壓壓一片，大約五十位。教宗右手邊第一位，也就是外交團團長，是象牙海岸大使。已經任職18年。我國周大使1978年抵任，已經9年，坐在教宗左手方第三位，因此他是外交團第6資深者。在各國大使的後面，依該國使館職銜排座位。我國周大使之後依序是項士揆公使，謝新平參事，萬家興二等秘書。周大使非常關心自己的座位，很不希望向前移動，每年此時他都會看自己的位置離團長多近。因為我國和大多國家沒有邦交，擔任外交團團長會不方便。教廷希望擔任外交團團長的大使，是各國都能接受的人選。當我國大使年資快到前三名，教廷很可能要求更換大使。時年74歲，排名第六的周大使，不希望被換掉。他希望在大使位置「越久越好」。
各國大使的服裝多彩多姿。現場絕大多數穿著燕尾服，大使，公使大多配掛綵帶勳章。我國周大使，配戴彩帶勳章，項公使戴著越南總統阮文紹贈與的一枚勳章，謝新平參事和我沒有勳章可配掛。有些歐洲有王室的老牌國家大使例如葡萄牙，丹麥，比利時，愛爾蘭等國大使穿著戎裝，像是十九世紀的將軍，鑲著紅邊的制服，制服上掛著一排勳章，手持像法國騎兵的高帽，腰間配把長劍，雄姿英發。摩洛哥大使為在教宗左手邊第一位，第二資深，一身白衣白袍白帽白披風白鞋。印尼大使一身灰色服裝，頭戴無邊黑色方帽，腰間繫著紅布巾。伊朗大使一身回教打扮，頭上纏白頭巾。巴基斯坦大使穿著像制服的灰色圓領上裝和長褲。置身大廳彷彿回到電影中描述的十八世紀宮廷。菲律賓大使，年輕有為，是李姓華裔後裔，能簡單閩南語交談。新加坡大使，四十歲出頭，非常年輕。我們的亞洲鄰國大使更換很快，朝氣蓬勃。
十點59分大廳突然大放光明，全體外交團起立，靜待教宗蒞臨。十一時整，教宗進入大廳，優雅地坐在聖座。接著教宗右手邊第一位的象牙海岸大使起立，代表全體外交團以法語向教宗祝賀新年。他讚揚教宗對世界和平的貢獻，希望各國共同努力，促進世界和平。隨後教宗也以法語致詞，全體一片肅靜。教宗提到「世界和平」。這是每年都提到的主題，今年更有「恐怖主義」以及在戰爭，飢荒，苛政之下的苦難人民。世界上仍有許多野心家不聽教宗的呼籲，把人民當作逞遂私欲的工具，進行毫無意義的戰爭。最後教宗用義大利英法德西班牙中日韓等國語言，祝福世界各國人民「新年快樂」。
致詞結束後，教宗走下台階，先和各國使節一一握手，祝賀新年，然後走到女士席，特別停下，允許每位女士和教宗握手合影。這是女士們期待的時刻，女士們很高興，很有秩序地和教宗合影留念。整個活動大約在十二點結束。
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1. 萬秘書夫婦盛裝出席
2. 萬太太向教宗拜年
3. 萬秘書夫婦和瑞士衛兵合影
4. 瑞士衛兵，制服好帥，米開朗基羅設計
5. 台階上手持古代長戟的衛兵
6. 周大使和館員項公使，謝參事，萬秘書
7. 有紅圈標示同一張照片
8. 萬太太與韓國秘書太太
9. 周大使與教宗
10. 教宗若望保祿二世
Memories 60
Celebrating the Pope's Year
On the second Saturday of the year, the Holy See hosts a diplomatic mission for the New Year. This is a very important traditional festival in which the process seems to go back to the Middle Ages. The theme of the ceremony is the pope's New Year's greeting to the people of the The Holy See has diplomatic relations with some 190 countries around the world, and all ambassadors are invited to attend.
There are about 80 embassies in Rome. Nearly a hundred other countries have embassies in other countries, usually in European capitals, and are assigned to the Holy See as "participants". Every year on this day, envoys from many countries come from Paris, London, Geneva and other places to attend the event.
Invitation is sent out by the Holy See concierge around December every year. Invitation notes date and time, men's and women's clothing, parking location, arrival time, seating time, and please reply to attend. This is a very formal invitation. I'll introduce you to the process I participated in on January 10, 1987.
I put on a big dress at 9am. It includes: tuxedo top, white shirt for dress bought at a special clothing store in Rome, black pants with black edges, white bowtie, shiny leather shoes. My wife has a long black dress, black hair, earrings brooch is basic. Going out dressed up and ran into community admin Marcelo. His eyes brightened, and he saluted us couple.
I drove to the entrance of the day's event, Bill Gate, and there was a Mercedes brakes in front of me with the national flag, supposed to be the ambassador of a certain country, the Swiss guard saluted. Our car is silver grey rich, not much eye-catching, but the license plate is CD diplomatic license plate, and the guards salute us. After entering the gate, the road is full of stone blocks that are five hundred years old. Deep palace halls on both sides, spectacularly beautiful. Arrived at the bell tower square of the Apostles' Palace, I parked my car and walked into the Apostles' Palace with my wife in half heels. Guard standing in line with the aisle of the Apostolic Palace, they keep their medieval dress, wearing iron helmets and holding a bench, swords around the waist, uniforms designed by Michelangelo. The captain of the guard gave a message and they saluted our couple.
The Swiss Guard has a historical tradition. The Swiss were employed as guards in the medieval Papal States. On 6 May 1527 Pope Clemont VII was invaded by the troops of the Holy Roman Empire, and the Swiss guards fought bravely, allowing the pope to avoid disaster in the most urgent moment. The 189-man guard died 147 in action. Since then, the Holy See's guards have been recruited to Switzerland, and Switzerland has been very cooperative, providing the Holy See with men of military age, and May 6 every year marks the anniversary of the recruitment of recruits to declare loyalty to the pope.
Walk through the Apostles' Palace and enter the elevator. The waiter in the elevator in tuxedo led us to the Apostolic Hall, Sala Regia, and then a senior leader asked us what country we came from, then handed me and my wife to two chiefs, one who took me to our seat in the diplomatic corps and the other who guided Mrs. Wan to the women's table.
The seats in the diplomatic corps are clearly arranged. Listed according to the order in which the ambassadors submitted their national letters. The seat on the right hand of the pope is 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 in order. Left hand is 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and so on. At a glance, there are about 80 or 90 ambassadors present. The pope's far opposite is the ladies' table. All black dresses, black pressed one piece, about fifty. The first person on the right hand of the pope, the head of the diplomatic mission, is the Ivory Coast 18 years in office. Nine years since our Ambassador arrived in 1978 and sits third on the left hand of the pope, so he is the 6th senior member of the diplomatic corps. Behind each country's ambassadors, seats are lined up according to the country's embassy job. After our Ambassador Zhou, in order, he was Minister Xiang Shizheng, Director Xie Xinping, Second Secretary Wan Jiaxing. Ambassador Zhou is very concerned about his seat and does not want to move forward, every year at this time he looks at how close he is to the head of the team Because our country and most countries have no diplomatic relations, it is inconvenient to be the head of the diplomatic mission. The ambassador the Holy See wants to serve as head of the diplomatic mission is a person acceptable to all countries. When our ambassadors reach the top three, the Holy See is likely to ask for a change of ambassadors. 74 years old, sixth-ranked ambassador of the week, don't want to be replaced. He hopes that "the longer the better" in the ambassador position.
The costumes of ambassadors are colorful. Most of the scene were wearing tuxedo, ambassadors, and ministers mostly with hanging bands. Our Ambassador Zhou, wearing a ribbon medal, and Minister Niang wearing a medal from Vietnam President Mr. Nguyen Wen Shao gave a medal. Staff officer Xie Xinping and I have no medals to hang. Some European ambassadors with royal family, such as Portugal, Denmark, Belgium, Ireland, etc. wear uniform, like 19th century generals, wearing red-brimmed uniforms, wearing a row of medals on the uniform, holding a high cap like a French cavalryman, with a long sword at the waist, and handsome hair. Moroccan ambassador is the first and second senior on the left hand of the pope, wearing white robe white cap white cap white shoes. Indonesian ambassador in grey, black square cap and red cloth towel around his waist. The Iranian ambassador is dressed in a Muslim dress with a white turban on his head. The Pakistani ambassador wore a grey round neck top and pants like a uniform. Being in the hall is like returning to the 18th century court described in the movie. Philippine ambassador, young and talented, is of Chinese descent surname Li, can talk simply in southern language. Singapore ambassador, early 40s, very young. Our Asian neighbors are changing quickly and vibrant.
At 10:59 a.m., the hall was suddenly bright and the whole diplomatic corps stood up and waited for the pope to come. At eleven o'clock the pope entered the hall and sat gracefully in the Holy See. Then the first Ivory Coast ambassador on the right hand of the pope stood up to greet the pope in French on behalf of the entire diplomatic community. He praised the Pope's contribution to world peace and hoped that all countries would work together to promote world peace. Then the pope also spoke in French, and the whole was quiet. The pope speaks of "world peace". This is the theme mentioned every year, this year there is more "terrorism" and suffering people under war, famines, and tyranny. There are still many ambitionists in the world who do not listen to the pope's call and use the people as instruments of selfish desires to wage senseless wars. Finally, the pope wished the people of the world a "Happy New Year" in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean
At the end of the speech, the pope walked down the steps, shook hands with the envoys one by one, wished the New Year, then walked to the ladies' table, and stopped specifically, allowing each lady to shake hands with the This is the moment the ladies are looking forward to, ladies are very happy and ordered to take a photo with the pope. The whole event ended around 12 o'clock.
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Memories 60 to worship the pope
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1. 1. Secretary and couple dressed up
2. The Mrs. Wan pays tribute to the pope
3. 3. Secretary couple and Swiss guard photo
4. 4. 4. Swiss guard, nice uniform, Michelangelo design
5. 5. Guard holding ancient benches on the steps
6. 6. 6. Ambassador Zhou and ambassador of the librarian, thank you staff, secretary Wan
7. The Red circles tag the same photo
8. 8. 8. Mrs. Wan and the Korean secretary wife
9. 9. Ambassador Zhou and the pope
10. 10. Pope John Paul II
「每年的第二個星期六教廷舉辦外交團新年團拜。這是個非常重要的傳統節日，其中過程彷若回到中古世紀。儀式的主題是教宗向全世界人民祝賀新年。教廷和全世界大約190個國家有外交關係，所有各國大使都受邀出席。」
⭐Diplomatic work - birthday to the pope 🌟 Ambassador Wan Jiaxing ️
"The Holy See hosts a diplomatic mission for the New Year on the second Saturday of the year. This is a very important traditional festival in which the process seems to go back to the Middle Ages. The theme of the ceremony is the pope's New Year's greeting to the people of the The Holy See has diplomatic relations with some 190 countries around the world, and all ambassadors are invited to attend. " The "
回憶錄60
向教宗拜年
每年的第二個星期六教廷舉辦外交團新年團拜。這是個非常重要的傳統節日，其中過程彷若回到中古世紀。儀式的主題是教宗向全世界人民祝賀新年。教廷和全世界大約190個國家有外交關係，所有各國大使都受邀出席。
在羅馬的駐教廷大使館約八十多個。其它近百國家的大使館在其它國家，通常是在歐洲國家首都，而派駐教廷為「兼使」。每年此日，很多國家的兼使都會從巴黎倫敦日內瓦等地趕來參加盛會。
大約在每年12月教廷禮賓司發出請帖。請帖上面寫明了舉行日期時間，男士和女士的服裝穿著，停車位置，抵達時間，入座時間，以及請回覆參加人員。這是非常正式的請帖。我就把1987年一月十日我參加的過程向大家介紹。
早晨九點我穿上大禮服。它包括：燕尾服上衣，在羅馬特別服飾店買的禮服專用白襯衫，鑲黑邊黑長褲，白領結，光亮的漆皮皮鞋。我太太全身黑長禮服，頭戴黑紗，耳環胸針是基本配備。穿戴整齊出門碰到社區管理員Marcelo。他眼睛一亮，肅然起敬，向我們夫婦敬禮。
我開車到了當天的活動入口，比爾大門時，前方有一輛賓士轎車插著國旗，應該是某國大使，瑞士衛兵立正敬禮。我們的車是銀灰色富豪，不怎麼起眼，但車牌是CD外交車牌，衛兵也向我們敬禮。進了大門後，全是石塊鋪的道路，這些石塊有五百年歷史。兩旁深宮大殿，壯觀美麗。到了使徒宮的鐘樓廣場，我把車停好，攙扶著穿著半高跟鞋的太太，走進使徒宮。使徒宮走道兩旁衛兵列隊站立，他們保持著中古世紀的打扮，戴著鐵盔手持長戟，腰間配著寶劍，制服是米開朗基羅的設計。衛兵隊長一聲口令，他們向我們夫婦立正敬禮。
瑞士衛兵有歷史傳統。在中世紀教皇國雇用瑞士人當衛兵。1527年5月6日教宗克里蒙七世遭到神聖羅馬帝國的軍隊入侵，瑞士衛兵奮勇抵抗，使得教宗在最緊急時刻，躲開災難。此役189人的衛隊陣亡了147人。此後教廷的衛隊一律向瑞士招募，而瑞士也非常配合，提供教廷適合的兵役年齡男子，每年5月6日就成了新兵入伍宣示效忠教宗的紀念日。
走過使徒宮，進入電梯。電梯中的侍者身穿燕尾服，引領我們到宗座廳，Sala Regia，然後一位資深的領位員問了我們來自那個國家，再把我和太太交給兩位領位員，一位帶著我到外交團我國的席位，另一位引導萬太太到女眷席。
外交團的席位排列明確。按照各國大使呈遞國書的先後順序排列。在教宗的右手邊座位依序是第1，3，5，7，9。左手邊是2，4，6，8，10，以此類推。一眼望去，大約有八九十位大使在座。教宗的遠方正對面，是女士席。全部都是黑禮服，黑壓壓一片，大約五十位。教宗右手邊第一位，也就是外交團團長，是象牙海岸大使。已經任職18年。我國周大使1978年抵任，已經9年，坐在教宗左手方第三位，因此他是外交團第6資深者。在各國大使的後面，依該國使館職銜排座位。我國周大使之後依序是項士揆公使，謝新平參事，萬家興二等秘書。周大使非常關心自己的座位，很不希望向前移動，每年此時他都會看自己的位置離團長多近。因為我國和大多國家沒有邦交，擔任外交團團長會不方便。教廷希望擔任外交團團長的大使，是各國都能接受的人選。當我國大使年資快到前三名，教廷很可能要求更換大使。時年74歲，排名第六的周大使，不希望被換掉。他希望在大使位置「越久越好」。
各國大使的服裝多彩多姿。現場絕大多數穿著燕尾服，大使，公使大多配掛綵帶勳章。我國周大使，配戴彩帶勳章，項公使戴著越南總統阮文紹贈與的一枚勳章，謝新平參事和我沒有勳章可配掛。有些歐洲有王室的老牌國家大使例如葡萄牙，丹麥，比利時，愛爾蘭等國大使穿著戎裝，像是十九世紀的將軍，鑲著紅邊的制服，制服上掛著一排勳章，手持像法國騎兵的高帽，腰間配把長劍，雄姿英發。摩洛哥大使為在教宗左手邊第一位，第二資深，一身白衣白袍白帽白披風白鞋。印尼大使一身灰色服裝，頭戴無邊黑色方帽，腰間繫著紅布巾。伊朗大使一身回教打扮，頭上纏白頭巾。巴基斯坦大使穿著像制服的灰色圓領上裝和長褲。置身大廳彷彿回到電影中描述的十八世紀宮廷。菲律賓大使，年輕有為，是李姓華裔後裔，能簡單閩南語交談。新加坡大使，四十歲出頭，非常年輕。我們的亞洲鄰國大使更換很快，朝氣蓬勃。
十點59分大廳突然大放光明，全體外交團起立，靜待教宗蒞臨。十一時整，教宗進入大廳，優雅地坐在聖座。接著教宗右手邊第一位的象牙海岸大使起立，代表全體外交團以法語向教宗祝賀新年。他讚揚教宗對世界和平的貢獻，希望各國共同努力，促進世界和平。隨後教宗也以法語致詞，全體一片肅靜。教宗提到「世界和平」。這是每年都提到的主題，今年更有「恐怖主義」以及在戰爭，飢荒，苛政之下的苦難人民。世界上仍有許多野心家不聽教宗的呼籲，把人民當作逞遂私欲的工具，進行毫無意義的戰爭。最後教宗用義大利英法德西班牙中日韓等國語言，祝福世界各國人民「新年快樂」。
致詞結束後，教宗走下台階，先和各國使節一一握手，祝賀新年，然後走到女士席，特別停下，允許每位女士和教宗握手合影。這是女士們期待的時刻，女士們很高興，很有秩序地和教宗合影留念。整個活動大約在十二點結束。
回憶錄60 向教宗拜年
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回憶錄60 向教宗拜年
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1. 萬秘書夫婦盛裝出席
2. 萬太太向教宗拜年
3. 萬秘書夫婦和瑞士衛兵合影
4. 瑞士衛兵，制服好帥，米開朗基羅設計
5. 台階上手持古代長戟的衛兵
6. 周大使和館員項公使，謝參事，萬秘書
7. 有紅圈標示同一張照片
8. 萬太太與韓國秘書太太
9. 周大使與教宗
10. 教宗若望保祿二世
Memories 60
Celebrating the Pope's Year
On the second Saturday of the year, the Holy See hosts a diplomatic mission for the New Year. This is a very important traditional festival in which the process seems to go back to the Middle Ages. The theme of the ceremony is the pope's New Year's greeting to the people of the The Holy See has diplomatic relations with some 190 countries around the world, and all ambassadors are invited to attend.
There are about 80 embassies in Rome. Nearly a hundred other countries have embassies in other countries, usually in European capitals, and are assigned to the Holy See as "participants". Every year on this day, envoys from many countries come from Paris, London, Geneva and other places to attend the event.
Invitation is sent out by the Holy See concierge around December every year. Invitation notes date and time, men's and women's clothing, parking location, arrival time, seating time, and please reply to attend. This is a very formal invitation. I'll introduce you to the process I participated in on January 10, 1987.
I put on a big dress at 9am. It includes: tuxedo top, white shirt for dress bought at a special clothing store in Rome, black pants with black edges, white bowtie, shiny leather shoes. My wife has a long black dress, black hair, earrings brooch is basic. Going out dressed up and ran into community admin Marcelo. His eyes brightened, and he saluted us couple.
I drove to the entrance of the day's event, Bill Gate, and there was a Mercedes brakes in front of me with the national flag, supposed to be the ambassador of a certain country, the Swiss guard saluted. Our car is silver grey rich, not much eye-catching, but the license plate is CD diplomatic license plate, and the guards salute us. After entering the gate, the road is full of stone blocks that are five hundred years old. Deep palace halls on both sides, spectacularly beautiful. Arrived at the bell tower square of the Apostles' Palace, I parked my car and walked into the Apostles' Palace with my wife in half heels. Guard standing in line with the aisle of the Apostolic Palace, they keep their medieval dress, wearing iron helmets and holding a bench, swords around the waist, uniforms designed by Michelangelo. The captain of the guard gave a message and they saluted our couple.
The Swiss Guard has a historical tradition. The Swiss were employed as guards in the medieval Papal States. On 6 May 1527 Pope Clemont VII was invaded by the troops of the Holy Roman Empire, and the Swiss guards fought bravely, allowing the pope to avoid disaster in the most urgent moment. The 189-man guard died 147 in action. Since then, the Holy See's guards have been recruited to Switzerland, and Switzerland has been very cooperative, providing the Holy See with men of military age, and May 6 every year marks the anniversary of the recruitment of recruits to declare loyalty to the pope.
Walk through the Apostles' Palace and enter the elevator. The waiter in the elevator in tuxedo led us to the Apostolic Hall, Sala Regia, and then a senior leader asked us what country we came from, then handed me and my wife to two chiefs, one who took me to our seat in the diplomatic corps and the other who guided Mrs. Wan to the women's table.
The seats in the diplomatic corps are clearly arranged. Listed according to the order in which the ambassadors submitted their national letters. The seat on the right hand of the pope is 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 in order. Left hand is 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and so on. At a glance, there are about 80 or 90 ambassadors present. The pope's far opposite is the ladies' table. All black dresses, black pressed one piece, about fifty. The first person on the right hand of the pope, the head of the diplomatic mission, is the Ivory Coast 18 years in office. Nine years since our Ambassador arrived in 1978 and sits third on the left hand of the pope, so he is the 6th senior member of the diplomatic corps. Behind each country's ambassadors, seats are lined up according to the country's embassy job. After our Ambassador Zhou, in order, he was Minister Xiang Shizheng, Director Xie Xinping, Second Secretary Wan Jiaxing. Ambassador Zhou is very concerned about his seat and does not want to move forward, every year at this time he looks at how close he is to the head of the team Because our country and most countries have no diplomatic relations, it is inconvenient to be the head of the diplomatic mission. The ambassador the Holy See wants to serve as head of the diplomatic mission is a person acceptable to all countries. When our ambassadors reach the top three, the Holy See is likely to ask for a change of ambassadors. 74 years old, sixth-ranked ambassador of the week, don't want to be replaced. He hopes that "the longer the better" in the ambassador position.
The costumes of ambassadors are colorful. Most of the scene were wearing tuxedo, ambassadors, and ministers mostly with hanging bands. Our Ambassador Zhou, wearing a ribbon medal, and Minister Niang wearing a medal from Vietnam President Mr. Nguyen Wen Shao gave a medal. Staff officer Xie Xinping and I have no medals to hang. Some European ambassadors with royal family, such as Portugal, Denmark, Belgium, Ireland, etc. wear uniform, like 19th century generals, wearing red-brimmed uniforms, wearing a row of medals on the uniform, holding a high cap like a French cavalryman, with a long sword at the waist, and handsome hair. Moroccan ambassador is the first and second senior on the left hand of the pope, wearing white robe white cap white cap white shoes. Indonesian ambassador in grey, black square cap and red cloth towel around his waist. The Iranian ambassador is dressed in a Muslim dress with a white turban on his head. The Pakistani ambassador wore a grey round neck top and pants like a uniform. Being in the hall is like returning to the 18th century court described in the movie. Philippine ambassador, young and talented, is of Chinese descent surname Li, can talk simply in southern language. Singapore ambassador, early 40s, very young. Our Asian neighbors are changing quickly and vibrant.
At 10:59 a.m., the hall was suddenly bright and the whole diplomatic corps stood up and waited for the pope to come. At eleven o'clock the pope entered the hall and sat gracefully in the Holy See. Then the first Ivory Coast ambassador on the right hand of the pope stood up to greet the pope in French on behalf of the entire diplomatic community. He praised the Pope's contribution to world peace and hoped that all countries would work together to promote world peace. Then the pope also spoke in French, and the whole was quiet. The pope speaks of "world peace". This is the theme mentioned every year, this year there is more "terrorism" and suffering people under war, famines, and tyranny. There are still many ambitionists in the world who do not listen to the pope's call and use the people as instruments of selfish desires to wage senseless wars. Finally, the pope wished the people of the world a "Happy New Year" in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean
At the end of the speech, the pope walked down the steps, shook hands with the envoys one by one, wished the New Year, then walked to the ladies' table, and stopped specifically, allowing each lady to shake hands with the This is the moment the ladies are looking forward to, ladies are very happy and ordered to take a photo with the pope. The whole event ended around 12 o'clock.
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1. 1. Secretary and couple dressed up
2. The Mrs. Wan pays tribute to the pope
3. 3. Secretary couple and Swiss guard photo
4. 4. 4. Swiss guard, nice uniform, Michelangelo design
5. 5. Guard holding ancient benches on the steps
6. 6. 6. Ambassador Zhou and ambassador of the librarian, thank you staff, secretary Wan
7. The Red circles tag the same photo
8. 8. 8. Mrs. Wan and the Korean secretary wife
9. 9. Ambassador Zhou and the pope
10. 10. Pope John Paul II
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⭐️外交工作- 向教宗拜年🌟 萬家興大使⭐️
「每年的第二個星期六教廷舉辦外交團新年團拜。這是個非常重要的傳統節日，其中過程彷若回到中古世紀。儀式的主題是教宗向全世界人民祝賀新年。教廷和全世界大約190個國家有外交關係，所有各國大使都受邀出席。」
⭐Diplomatic work - birthday to the pope 🌟 Ambassador Wan Jiaxing ️
"The Holy See hosts a diplomatic mission for the New Year on the second Saturday of the year. This is a very important traditional festival in which the process seems to go back to the Middle Ages. The theme of the ceremony is the pope's New Year's greeting to the people of the The Holy See has diplomatic relations with some 190 countries around the world, and all ambassadors are invited to attend. " The "
回憶錄60
向教宗拜年
每年的第二個星期六教廷舉辦外交團新年團拜。這是個非常重要的傳統節日，其中過程彷若回到中古世紀。儀式的主題是教宗向全世界人民祝賀新年。教廷和全世界大約190個國家有外交關係，所有各國大使都受邀出席。
在羅馬的駐教廷大使館約八十多個。其它近百國家的大使館在其它國家，通常是在歐洲國家首都，而派駐教廷為「兼使」。每年此日，很多國家的兼使都會從巴黎倫敦日內瓦等地趕來參加盛會。
大約在每年12月教廷禮賓司發出請帖。請帖上面寫明了舉行日期時間，男士和女士的服裝穿著，停車位置，抵達時間，入座時間，以及請回覆參加人員。這是非常正式的請帖。我就把1987年一月十日我參加的過程向大家介紹。
早晨九點我穿上大禮服。它包括：燕尾服上衣，在羅馬特別服飾店買的禮服專用白襯衫，鑲黑邊黑長褲，白領結，光亮的漆皮皮鞋。我太太全身黑長禮服，頭戴黑紗，耳環胸針是基本配備。穿戴整齊出門碰到社區管理員Marcelo。他眼睛一亮，肅然起敬，向我們夫婦敬禮。
我開車到了當天的活動入口，比爾大門時，前方有一輛賓士轎車插著國旗，應該是某國大使，瑞士衛兵立正敬禮。我們的車是銀灰色富豪，不怎麼起眼，但車牌是CD外交車牌，衛兵也向我們敬禮。進了大門後，全是石塊鋪的道路，這些石塊有五百年歷史。兩旁深宮大殿，壯觀美麗。到了使徒宮的鐘樓廣場，我把車停好，攙扶著穿著半高跟鞋的太太，走進使徒宮。使徒宮走道兩旁衛兵列隊站立，他們保持著中古世紀的打扮，戴著鐵盔手持長戟，腰間配著寶劍，制服是米開朗基羅的設計。衛兵隊長一聲口令，他們向我們夫婦立正敬禮。
瑞士衛兵有歷史傳統。在中世紀教皇國雇用瑞士人當衛兵。1527年5月6日教宗克里蒙七世遭到神聖羅馬帝國的軍隊入侵，瑞士衛兵奮勇抵抗，使得教宗在最緊急時刻，躲開災難。此役189人的衛隊陣亡了147人。此後教廷的衛隊一律向瑞士招募，而瑞士也非常配合，提供教廷適合的兵役年齡男子，每年5月6日就成了新兵入伍宣示效忠教宗的紀念日。
走過使徒宮，進入電梯。電梯中的侍者身穿燕尾服，引領我們到宗座廳，Sala Regia，然後一位資深的領位員問了我們來自那個國家，再把我和太太交給兩位領位員，一位帶著我到外交團我國的席位，另一位引導萬太太到女眷席。
外交團的席位排列明確。按照各國大使呈遞國書的先後順序排列。在教宗的右手邊座位依序是第1，3，5，7，9。左手邊是2，4，6，8，10，以此類推。一眼望去，大約有八九十位大使在座。教宗的遠方正對面，是女士席。全部都是黑禮服，黑壓壓一片，大約五十位。教宗右手邊第一位，也就是外交團團長，是象牙海岸大使。已經任職18年。我國周大使1978年抵任，已經9年，坐在教宗左手方第三位，因此他是外交團第6資深者。在各國大使的後面，依該國使館職銜排座位。我國周大使之後依序是項士揆公使，謝新平參事，萬家興二等秘書。周大使非常關心自己的座位，很不希望向前移動，每年此時他都會看自己的位置離團長多近。因為我國和大多國家沒有邦交，擔任外交團團長會不方便。教廷希望擔任外交團團長的大使，是各國都能接受的人選。當我國大使年資快到前三名，教廷很可能要求更換大使。時年74歲，排名第六的周大使，不希望被換掉。他希望在大使位置「越久越好」。
各國大使的服裝多彩多姿。現場絕大多數穿著燕尾服，大使，公使大多配掛綵帶勳章。我國周大使，配戴彩帶勳章，項公使戴著越南總統阮文紹贈與的一枚勳章，謝新平參事和我沒有勳章可配掛。有些歐洲有王室的老牌國家大使例如葡萄牙，丹麥，比利時，愛爾蘭等國大使穿著戎裝，像是十九世紀的將軍，鑲著紅邊的制服，制服上掛著一排勳章，手持像法國騎兵的高帽，腰間配把長劍，雄姿英發。摩洛哥大使為在教宗左手邊第一位，第二資深，一身白衣白袍白帽白披風白鞋。印尼大使一身灰色服裝，頭戴無邊黑色方帽，腰間繫著紅布巾。伊朗大使一身回教打扮，頭上纏白頭巾。巴基斯坦大使穿著像制服的灰色圓領上裝和長褲。置身大廳彷彿回到電影中描述的十八世紀宮廷。菲律賓大使，年輕有為，是李姓華裔後裔，能簡單閩南語交談。新加坡大使，四十歲出頭，非常年輕。我們的亞洲鄰國大使更換很快，朝氣蓬勃。
十點59分大廳突然大放光明，全體外交團起立，靜待教宗蒞臨。十一時整，教宗進入大廳，優雅地坐在聖座。接著教宗右手邊第一位的象牙海岸大使起立，代表全體外交團以法語向教宗祝賀新年。他讚揚教宗對世界和平的貢獻，希望各國共同努力，促進世界和平。隨後教宗也以法語致詞，全體一片肅靜。教宗提到「世界和平」。這是每年都提到的主題，今年更有「恐怖主義」以及在戰爭，飢荒，苛政之下的苦難人民。世界上仍有許多野心家不聽教宗的呼籲，把人民當作逞遂私欲的工具，進行毫無意義的戰爭。最後教宗用義大利英法德西班牙中日韓等國語言，祝福世界各國人民「新年快樂」。
致詞結束後，教宗走下台階，先和各國使節一一握手，祝賀新年，然後走到女士席，特別停下，允許每位女士和教宗握手合影。這是女士們期待的時刻，女士們很高興，很有秩序地和教宗合影留念。整個活動大約在十二點結束。
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1. 萬秘書夫婦盛裝出席
2. 萬太太向教宗拜年
3. 萬秘書夫婦和瑞士衛兵合影
4. 瑞士衛兵，制服好帥，米開朗基羅設計
5. 台階上手持古代長戟的衛兵
6. 周大使和館員項公使，謝參事，萬秘書
7. 有紅圈標示同一張照片
8. 萬太太與韓國秘書太太
9. 周大使與教宗
10. 教宗若望保祿二世
Memories 60
Celebrating the Pope's Year
On the second Saturday of the year, the Holy See hosts a diplomatic mission for the New Year. This is a very important traditional festival in which the process seems to go back to the Middle Ages. The theme of the ceremony is the pope's New Year's greeting to the people of the The Holy See has diplomatic relations with some 190 countries around the world, and all ambassadors are invited to attend.
There are about 80 embassies in Rome. Nearly a hundred other countries have embassies in other countries, usually in European capitals, and are assigned to the Holy See as "participants". Every year on this day, envoys from many countries come from Paris, London, Geneva and other places to attend the event.
Invitation is sent out by the Holy See concierge around December every year. Invitation notes date and time, men's and women's clothing, parking location, arrival time, seating time, and please reply to attend. This is a very formal invitation. I'll introduce you to the process I participated in on January 10, 1987.
I put on a big dress at 9am. It includes: tuxedo top, white shirt for dress bought at a special clothing store in Rome, black pants with black edges, white bowtie, shiny leather shoes. My wife has a long black dress, black hair, earrings brooch is basic. Going out dressed up and ran into community admin Marcelo. His eyes brightened, and he saluted us couple.
I drove to the entrance of the day's event, Bill Gate, and there was a Mercedes brakes in front of me with the national flag, supposed to be the ambassador of a certain country, the Swiss guard saluted. Our car is silver grey rich, not much eye-catching, but the license plate is CD diplomatic license plate, and the guards salute us. After entering the gate, the road is full of stone blocks that are five hundred years old. Deep palace halls on both sides, spectacularly beautiful. Arrived at the bell tower square of the Apostles' Palace, I parked my car and walked into the Apostles' Palace with my wife in half heels. Guard standing in line with the aisle of the Apostolic Palace, they keep their medieval dress, wearing iron helmets and holding a bench, swords around the waist, uniforms designed by Michelangelo. The captain of the guard gave a message and they saluted our couple.
The Swiss Guard has a historical tradition. The Swiss were employed as guards in the medieval Papal States. On 6 May 1527 Pope Clemont VII was invaded by the troops of the Holy Roman Empire, and the Swiss guards fought bravely, allowing the pope to avoid disaster in the most urgent moment. The 189-man guard died 147 in action. Since then, the Holy See's guards have been recruited to Switzerland, and Switzerland has been very cooperative, providing the Holy See with men of military age, and May 6 every year marks the anniversary of the recruitment of recruits to declare loyalty to the pope.
Walk through the Apostles' Palace and enter the elevator. The waiter in the elevator in tuxedo led us to the Apostolic Hall, Sala Regia, and then a senior leader asked us what country we came from, then handed me and my wife to two chiefs, one who took me to our seat in the diplomatic corps and the other who guided Mrs. Wan to the women's table.
The seats in the diplomatic corps are clearly arranged. Listed according to the order in which the ambassadors submitted their national letters. The seat on the right hand of the pope is 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 in order. Left hand is 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and so on. At a glance, there are about 80 or 90 ambassadors present. The pope's far opposite is the ladies' table. All black dresses, black pressed one piece, about fifty. The first person on the right hand of the pope, the head of the diplomatic mission, is the Ivory Coast 18 years in office. Nine years since our Ambassador arrived in 1978 and sits third on the left hand of the pope, so he is the 6th senior member of the diplomatic corps. Behind each country's ambassadors, seats are lined up according to the country's embassy job. After our Ambassador Zhou, in order, he was Minister Xiang Shizheng, Director Xie Xinping, Second Secretary Wan Jiaxing. Ambassador Zhou is very concerned about his seat and does not want to move forward, every year at this time he looks at how close he is to the head of the team Because our country and most countries have no diplomatic relations, it is inconvenient to be the head of the diplomatic mission. The ambassador the Holy See wants to serve as head of the diplomatic mission is a person acceptable to all countries. When our ambassadors reach the top three, the Holy See is likely to ask for a change of ambassadors. 74 years old, sixth-ranked ambassador of the week, don't want to be replaced. He hopes that "the longer the better" in the ambassador position.
The costumes of ambassadors are colorful. Most of the scene were wearing tuxedo, ambassadors, and ministers mostly with hanging bands. Our Ambassador Zhou, wearing a ribbon medal, and Minister Niang wearing a medal from Vietnam President Mr. Nguyen Wen Shao gave a medal. Staff officer Xie Xinping and I have no medals to hang. Some European ambassadors with royal family, such as Portugal, Denmark, Belgium, Ireland, etc. wear uniform, like 19th century generals, wearing red-brimmed uniforms, wearing a row of medals on the uniform, holding a high cap like a French cavalryman, with a long sword at the waist, and handsome hair. Moroccan ambassador is the first and second senior on the left hand of the pope, wearing white robe white cap white cap white shoes. Indonesian ambassador in grey, black square cap and red cloth towel around his waist. The Iranian ambassador is dressed in a Muslim dress with a white turban on his head. The Pakistani ambassador wore a grey round neck top and pants like a uniform. Being in the hall is like returning to the 18th century court described in the movie. Philippine ambassador, young and talented, is of Chinese descent surname Li, can talk simply in southern language. Singapore ambassador, early 40s, very young. Our Asian neighbors are changing quickly and vibrant.
At 10:59 a.m., the hall was suddenly bright and the whole diplomatic corps stood up and waited for the pope to come. At eleven o'clock the pope entered the hall and sat gracefully in the Holy See. Then the first Ivory Coast ambassador on the right hand of the pope stood up to greet the pope in French on behalf of the entire diplomatic community. He praised the Pope's contribution to world peace and hoped that all countries would work together to promote world peace. Then the pope also spoke in French, and the whole was quiet. The pope speaks of "world peace". This is the theme mentioned every year, this year there is more "terrorism" and suffering people under war, famines, and tyranny. There are still many ambitionists in the world who do not listen to the pope's call and use the people as instruments of selfish desires to wage senseless wars. Finally, the pope wished the people of the world a "Happy New Year" in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean
At the end of the speech, the pope walked down the steps, shook hands with the envoys one by one, wished the New Year, then walked to the ladies' table, and stopped specifically, allowing each lady to shake hands with the This is the moment the ladies are looking forward to, ladies are very happy and ordered to take a photo with the pope. The whole event ended around 12 o'clock.
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1. 1. Secretary and couple dressed up
2. The Mrs. Wan pays tribute to the pope
3. 3. Secretary couple and Swiss guard photo
4. 4. 4. Swiss guard, nice uniform, Michelangelo design
5. 5. Guard holding ancient benches on the steps
6. 6. 6. Ambassador Zhou and ambassador of the librarian, thank you staff, secretary Wan
7. The Red circles tag the same photo
8. 8. 8. Mrs. Wan and the Korean secretary wife
9. 9. Ambassador Zhou and the pope
10. 10. Pope John Paul II
「每年的第二個星期六教廷舉辦外交團新年團拜。這是個非常重要的傳統節日，其中過程彷若回到中古世紀。儀式的主題是教宗向全世界人民祝賀新年。教廷和全世界大約190個國家有外交關係，所有各國大使都受邀出席。」
⭐Diplomatic work - birthday to the pope 🌟 Ambassador Wan Jiaxing ️
"The Holy See hosts a diplomatic mission for the New Year on the second Saturday of the year. This is a very important traditional festival in which the process seems to go back to the Middle Ages. The theme of the ceremony is the pope's New Year's greeting to the people of the The Holy See has diplomatic relations with some 190 countries around the world, and all ambassadors are invited to attend. " The "
回憶錄60
向教宗拜年
每年的第二個星期六教廷舉辦外交團新年團拜。這是個非常重要的傳統節日，其中過程彷若回到中古世紀。儀式的主題是教宗向全世界人民祝賀新年。教廷和全世界大約190個國家有外交關係，所有各國大使都受邀出席。
在羅馬的駐教廷大使館約八十多個。其它近百國家的大使館在其它國家，通常是在歐洲國家首都，而派駐教廷為「兼使」。每年此日，很多國家的兼使都會從巴黎倫敦日內瓦等地趕來參加盛會。
大約在每年12月教廷禮賓司發出請帖。請帖上面寫明了舉行日期時間，男士和女士的服裝穿著，停車位置，抵達時間，入座時間，以及請回覆參加人員。這是非常正式的請帖。我就把1987年一月十日我參加的過程向大家介紹。
早晨九點我穿上大禮服。它包括：燕尾服上衣，在羅馬特別服飾店買的禮服專用白襯衫，鑲黑邊黑長褲，白領結，光亮的漆皮皮鞋。我太太全身黑長禮服，頭戴黑紗，耳環胸針是基本配備。穿戴整齊出門碰到社區管理員Marcelo。他眼睛一亮，肅然起敬，向我們夫婦敬禮。
我開車到了當天的活動入口，比爾大門時，前方有一輛賓士轎車插著國旗，應該是某國大使，瑞士衛兵立正敬禮。我們的車是銀灰色富豪，不怎麼起眼，但車牌是CD外交車牌，衛兵也向我們敬禮。進了大門後，全是石塊鋪的道路，這些石塊有五百年歷史。兩旁深宮大殿，壯觀美麗。到了使徒宮的鐘樓廣場，我把車停好，攙扶著穿著半高跟鞋的太太，走進使徒宮。使徒宮走道兩旁衛兵列隊站立，他們保持著中古世紀的打扮，戴著鐵盔手持長戟，腰間配著寶劍，制服是米開朗基羅的設計。衛兵隊長一聲口令，他們向我們夫婦立正敬禮。
瑞士衛兵有歷史傳統。在中世紀教皇國雇用瑞士人當衛兵。1527年5月6日教宗克里蒙七世遭到神聖羅馬帝國的軍隊入侵，瑞士衛兵奮勇抵抗，使得教宗在最緊急時刻，躲開災難。此役189人的衛隊陣亡了147人。此後教廷的衛隊一律向瑞士招募，而瑞士也非常配合，提供教廷適合的兵役年齡男子，每年5月6日就成了新兵入伍宣示效忠教宗的紀念日。
走過使徒宮，進入電梯。電梯中的侍者身穿燕尾服，引領我們到宗座廳，Sala Regia，然後一位資深的領位員問了我們來自那個國家，再把我和太太交給兩位領位員，一位帶著我到外交團我國的席位，另一位引導萬太太到女眷席。
外交團的席位排列明確。按照各國大使呈遞國書的先後順序排列。在教宗的右手邊座位依序是第1，3，5，7，9。左手邊是2，4，6，8，10，以此類推。一眼望去，大約有八九十位大使在座。教宗的遠方正對面，是女士席。全部都是黑禮服，黑壓壓一片，大約五十位。教宗右手邊第一位，也就是外交團團長，是象牙海岸大使。已經任職18年。我國周大使1978年抵任，已經9年，坐在教宗左手方第三位，因此他是外交團第6資深者。在各國大使的後面，依該國使館職銜排座位。我國周大使之後依序是項士揆公使，謝新平參事，萬家興二等秘書。周大使非常關心自己的座位，很不希望向前移動，每年此時他都會看自己的位置離團長多近。因為我國和大多國家沒有邦交，擔任外交團團長會不方便。教廷希望擔任外交團團長的大使，是各國都能接受的人選。當我國大使年資快到前三名，教廷很可能要求更換大使。時年74歲，排名第六的周大使，不希望被換掉。他希望在大使位置「越久越好」。
各國大使的服裝多彩多姿。現場絕大多數穿著燕尾服，大使，公使大多配掛綵帶勳章。我國周大使，配戴彩帶勳章，項公使戴著越南總統阮文紹贈與的一枚勳章，謝新平參事和我沒有勳章可配掛。有些歐洲有王室的老牌國家大使例如葡萄牙，丹麥，比利時，愛爾蘭等國大使穿著戎裝，像是十九世紀的將軍，鑲著紅邊的制服，制服上掛著一排勳章，手持像法國騎兵的高帽，腰間配把長劍，雄姿英發。摩洛哥大使為在教宗左手邊第一位，第二資深，一身白衣白袍白帽白披風白鞋。印尼大使一身灰色服裝，頭戴無邊黑色方帽，腰間繫著紅布巾。伊朗大使一身回教打扮，頭上纏白頭巾。巴基斯坦大使穿著像制服的灰色圓領上裝和長褲。置身大廳彷彿回到電影中描述的十八世紀宮廷。菲律賓大使，年輕有為，是李姓華裔後裔，能簡單閩南語交談。新加坡大使，四十歲出頭，非常年輕。我們的亞洲鄰國大使更換很快，朝氣蓬勃。
十點59分大廳突然大放光明，全體外交團起立，靜待教宗蒞臨。十一時整，教宗進入大廳，優雅地坐在聖座。接著教宗右手邊第一位的象牙海岸大使起立，代表全體外交團以法語向教宗祝賀新年。他讚揚教宗對世界和平的貢獻，希望各國共同努力，促進世界和平。隨後教宗也以法語致詞，全體一片肅靜。教宗提到「世界和平」。這是每年都提到的主題，今年更有「恐怖主義」以及在戰爭，飢荒，苛政之下的苦難人民。世界上仍有許多野心家不聽教宗的呼籲，把人民當作逞遂私欲的工具，進行毫無意義的戰爭。最後教宗用義大利英法德西班牙中日韓等國語言，祝福世界各國人民「新年快樂」。
致詞結束後，教宗走下台階，先和各國使節一一握手，祝賀新年，然後走到女士席，特別停下，允許每位女士和教宗握手合影。這是女士們期待的時刻，女士們很高興，很有秩序地和教宗合影留念。整個活動大約在十二點結束。
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1. 萬秘書夫婦盛裝出席
2. 萬太太向教宗拜年
3. 萬秘書夫婦和瑞士衛兵合影
4. 瑞士衛兵，制服好帥，米開朗基羅設計
5. 台階上手持古代長戟的衛兵
6. 周大使和館員項公使，謝參事，萬秘書
7. 有紅圈標示同一張照片
8. 萬太太與韓國秘書太太
9. 周大使與教宗
10. 教宗若望保祿二世
Memories 60
Celebrating the Pope's Year
On the second Saturday of the year, the Holy See hosts a diplomatic mission for the New Year. This is a very important traditional festival in which the process seems to go back to the Middle Ages. The theme of the ceremony is the pope's New Year's greeting to the people of the The Holy See has diplomatic relations with some 190 countries around the world, and all ambassadors are invited to attend.
There are about 80 embassies in Rome. Nearly a hundred other countries have embassies in other countries, usually in European capitals, and are assigned to the Holy See as "participants". Every year on this day, envoys from many countries come from Paris, London, Geneva and other places to attend the event.
Invitation is sent out by the Holy See concierge around December every year. Invitation notes date and time, men's and women's clothing, parking location, arrival time, seating time, and please reply to attend. This is a very formal invitation. I'll introduce you to the process I participated in on January 10, 1987.
I put on a big dress at 9am. It includes: tuxedo top, white shirt for dress bought at a special clothing store in Rome, black pants with black edges, white bowtie, shiny leather shoes. My wife has a long black dress, black hair, earrings brooch is basic. Going out dressed up and ran into community admin Marcelo. His eyes brightened, and he saluted us couple.
I drove to the entrance of the day's event, Bill Gate, and there was a Mercedes brakes in front of me with the national flag, supposed to be the ambassador of a certain country, the Swiss guard saluted. Our car is silver grey rich, not much eye-catching, but the license plate is CD diplomatic license plate, and the guards salute us. After entering the gate, the road is full of stone blocks that are five hundred years old. Deep palace halls on both sides, spectacularly beautiful. Arrived at the bell tower square of the Apostles' Palace, I parked my car and walked into the Apostles' Palace with my wife in half heels. Guard standing in line with the aisle of the Apostolic Palace, they keep their medieval dress, wearing iron helmets and holding a bench, swords around the waist, uniforms designed by Michelangelo. The captain of the guard gave a message and they saluted our couple.
The Swiss Guard has a historical tradition. The Swiss were employed as guards in the medieval Papal States. On 6 May 1527 Pope Clemont VII was invaded by the troops of the Holy Roman Empire, and the Swiss guards fought bravely, allowing the pope to avoid disaster in the most urgent moment. The 189-man guard died 147 in action. Since then, the Holy See's guards have been recruited to Switzerland, and Switzerland has been very cooperative, providing the Holy See with men of military age, and May 6 every year marks the anniversary of the recruitment of recruits to declare loyalty to the pope.
Walk through the Apostles' Palace and enter the elevator. The waiter in the elevator in tuxedo led us to the Apostolic Hall, Sala Regia, and then a senior leader asked us what country we came from, then handed me and my wife to two chiefs, one who took me to our seat in the diplomatic corps and the other who guided Mrs. Wan to the women's table.
The seats in the diplomatic corps are clearly arranged. Listed according to the order in which the ambassadors submitted their national letters. The seat on the right hand of the pope is 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 in order. Left hand is 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and so on. At a glance, there are about 80 or 90 ambassadors present. The pope's far opposite is the ladies' table. All black dresses, black pressed one piece, about fifty. The first person on the right hand of the pope, the head of the diplomatic mission, is the Ivory Coast 18 years in office. Nine years since our Ambassador arrived in 1978 and sits third on the left hand of the pope, so he is the 6th senior member of the diplomatic corps. Behind each country's ambassadors, seats are lined up according to the country's embassy job. After our Ambassador Zhou, in order, he was Minister Xiang Shizheng, Director Xie Xinping, Second Secretary Wan Jiaxing. Ambassador Zhou is very concerned about his seat and does not want to move forward, every year at this time he looks at how close he is to the head of the team Because our country and most countries have no diplomatic relations, it is inconvenient to be the head of the diplomatic mission. The ambassador the Holy See wants to serve as head of the diplomatic mission is a person acceptable to all countries. When our ambassadors reach the top three, the Holy See is likely to ask for a change of ambassadors. 74 years old, sixth-ranked ambassador of the week, don't want to be replaced. He hopes that "the longer the better" in the ambassador position.
The costumes of ambassadors are colorful. Most of the scene were wearing tuxedo, ambassadors, and ministers mostly with hanging bands. Our Ambassador Zhou, wearing a ribbon medal, and Minister Niang wearing a medal from Vietnam President Mr. Nguyen Wen Shao gave a medal. Staff officer Xie Xinping and I have no medals to hang. Some European ambassadors with royal family, such as Portugal, Denmark, Belgium, Ireland, etc. wear uniform, like 19th century generals, wearing red-brimmed uniforms, wearing a row of medals on the uniform, holding a high cap like a French cavalryman, with a long sword at the waist, and handsome hair. Moroccan ambassador is the first and second senior on the left hand of the pope, wearing white robe white cap white cap white shoes. Indonesian ambassador in grey, black square cap and red cloth towel around his waist. The Iranian ambassador is dressed in a Muslim dress with a white turban on his head. The Pakistani ambassador wore a grey round neck top and pants like a uniform. Being in the hall is like returning to the 18th century court described in the movie. Philippine ambassador, young and talented, is of Chinese descent surname Li, can talk simply in southern language. Singapore ambassador, early 40s, very young. Our Asian neighbors are changing quickly and vibrant.
At 10:59 a.m., the hall was suddenly bright and the whole diplomatic corps stood up and waited for the pope to come. At eleven o'clock the pope entered the hall and sat gracefully in the Holy See. Then the first Ivory Coast ambassador on the right hand of the pope stood up to greet the pope in French on behalf of the entire diplomatic community. He praised the Pope's contribution to world peace and hoped that all countries would work together to promote world peace. Then the pope also spoke in French, and the whole was quiet. The pope speaks of "world peace". This is the theme mentioned every year, this year there is more "terrorism" and suffering people under war, famines, and tyranny. There are still many ambitionists in the world who do not listen to the pope's call and use the people as instruments of selfish desires to wage senseless wars. Finally, the pope wished the people of the world a "Happy New Year" in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean
At the end of the speech, the pope walked down the steps, shook hands with the envoys one by one, wished the New Year, then walked to the ladies' table, and stopped specifically, allowing each lady to shake hands with the This is the moment the ladies are looking forward to, ladies are very happy and ordered to take a photo with the pope. The whole event ended around 12 o'clock.
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1. 1. Secretary and couple dressed up
2. The Mrs. Wan pays tribute to the pope
3. 3. Secretary couple and Swiss guard photo
4. 4. 4. Swiss guard, nice uniform, Michelangelo design
5. 5. Guard holding ancient benches on the steps
6. 6. 6. Ambassador Zhou and ambassador of the librarian, thank you staff, secretary Wan
7. The Red circles tag the same photo
8. 8. 8. Mrs. Wan and the Korean secretary wife
9. 9. Ambassador Zhou and the pope
10. 10. Pope John Paul II
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⭐️外交工作- 向教宗拜年🌟 萬家興大使⭐️
「每年的第二個星期六教廷舉辦外交團新年團拜。這是個非常重要的傳統節日，其中過程彷若回到中古世紀。儀式的主題是教宗向全世界人民祝賀新年。教廷和全世界大約190個國家有外交關係，所有各國大使都受邀出席。」
⭐Diplomatic work - birthday to the pope 🌟 Ambassador Wan Jiaxing ️
"The Holy See hosts a diplomatic mission for the New Year on the second Saturday of the year. This is a very important traditional festival in which the process seems to go back to the Middle Ages. The theme of the ceremony is the pope's New Year's greeting to the people of the The Holy See has diplomatic relations with some 190 countries around the world, and all ambassadors are invited to attend. " The "
回憶錄60
向教宗拜年
每年的第二個星期六教廷舉辦外交團新年團拜。這是個非常重要的傳統節日，其中過程彷若回到中古世紀。儀式的主題是教宗向全世界人民祝賀新年。教廷和全世界大約190個國家有外交關係，所有各國大使都受邀出席。
在羅馬的駐教廷大使館約八十多個。其它近百國家的大使館在其它國家，通常是在歐洲國家首都，而派駐教廷為「兼使」。每年此日，很多國家的兼使都會從巴黎倫敦日內瓦等地趕來參加盛會。
大約在每年12月教廷禮賓司發出請帖。請帖上面寫明了舉行日期時間，男士和女士的服裝穿著，停車位置，抵達時間，入座時間，以及請回覆參加人員。這是非常正式的請帖。我就把1987年一月十日我參加的過程向大家介紹。
早晨九點我穿上大禮服。它包括：燕尾服上衣，在羅馬特別服飾店買的禮服專用白襯衫，鑲黑邊黑長褲，白領結，光亮的漆皮皮鞋。我太太全身黑長禮服，頭戴黑紗，耳環胸針是基本配備。穿戴整齊出門碰到社區管理員Marcelo。他眼睛一亮，肅然起敬，向我們夫婦敬禮。
我開車到了當天的活動入口，比爾大門時，前方有一輛賓士轎車插著國旗，應該是某國大使，瑞士衛兵立正敬禮。我們的車是銀灰色富豪，不怎麼起眼，但車牌是CD外交車牌，衛兵也向我們敬禮。進了大門後，全是石塊鋪的道路，這些石塊有五百年歷史。兩旁深宮大殿，壯觀美麗。到了使徒宮的鐘樓廣場，我把車停好，攙扶著穿著半高跟鞋的太太，走進使徒宮。使徒宮走道兩旁衛兵列隊站立，他們保持著中古世紀的打扮，戴著鐵盔手持長戟，腰間配著寶劍，制服是米開朗基羅的設計。衛兵隊長一聲口令，他們向我們夫婦立正敬禮。
瑞士衛兵有歷史傳統。在中世紀教皇國雇用瑞士人當衛兵。1527年5月6日教宗克里蒙七世遭到神聖羅馬帝國的軍隊入侵，瑞士衛兵奮勇抵抗，使得教宗在最緊急時刻，躲開災難。此役189人的衛隊陣亡了147人。此後教廷的衛隊一律向瑞士招募，而瑞士也非常配合，提供教廷適合的兵役年齡男子，每年5月6日就成了新兵入伍宣示效忠教宗的紀念日。
走過使徒宮，進入電梯。電梯中的侍者身穿燕尾服，引領我們到宗座廳，Sala Regia，然後一位資深的領位員問了我們來自那個國家，再把我和太太交給兩位領位員，一位帶著我到外交團我國的席位，另一位引導萬太太到女眷席。
外交團的席位排列明確。按照各國大使呈遞國書的先後順序排列。在教宗的右手邊座位依序是第1，3，5，7，9。左手邊是2，4，6，8，10，以此類推。一眼望去，大約有八九十位大使在座。教宗的遠方正對面，是女士席。全部都是黑禮服，黑壓壓一片，大約五十位。教宗右手邊第一位，也就是外交團團長，是象牙海岸大使。已經任職18年。我國周大使1978年抵任，已經9年，坐在教宗左手方第三位，因此他是外交團第6資深者。在各國大使的後面，依該國使館職銜排座位。我國周大使之後依序是項士揆公使，謝新平參事，萬家興二等秘書。周大使非常關心自己的座位，很不希望向前移動，每年此時他都會看自己的位置離團長多近。因為我國和大多國家沒有邦交，擔任外交團團長會不方便。教廷希望擔任外交團團長的大使，是各國都能接受的人選。當我國大使年資快到前三名，教廷很可能要求更換大使。時年74歲，排名第六的周大使，不希望被換掉。他希望在大使位置「越久越好」。
各國大使的服裝多彩多姿。現場絕大多數穿著燕尾服，大使，公使大多配掛綵帶勳章。我國周大使，配戴彩帶勳章，項公使戴著越南總統阮文紹贈與的一枚勳章，謝新平參事和我沒有勳章可配掛。有些歐洲有王室的老牌國家大使例如葡萄牙，丹麥，比利時，愛爾蘭等國大使穿著戎裝，像是十九世紀的將軍，鑲著紅邊的制服，制服上掛著一排勳章，手持像法國騎兵的高帽，腰間配把長劍，雄姿英發。摩洛哥大使為在教宗左手邊第一位，第二資深，一身白衣白袍白帽白披風白鞋。印尼大使一身灰色服裝，頭戴無邊黑色方帽，腰間繫著紅布巾。伊朗大使一身回教打扮，頭上纏白頭巾。巴基斯坦大使穿著像制服的灰色圓領上裝和長褲。置身大廳彷彿回到電影中描述的十八世紀宮廷。菲律賓大使，年輕有為，是李姓華裔後裔，能簡單閩南語交談。新加坡大使，四十歲出頭，非常年輕。我們的亞洲鄰國大使更換很快，朝氣蓬勃。
十點59分大廳突然大放光明，全體外交團起立，靜待教宗蒞臨。十一時整，教宗進入大廳，優雅地坐在聖座。接著教宗右手邊第一位的象牙海岸大使起立，代表全體外交團以法語向教宗祝賀新年。他讚揚教宗對世界和平的貢獻，希望各國共同努力，促進世界和平。隨後教宗也以法語致詞，全體一片肅靜。教宗提到「世界和平」。這是每年都提到的主題，今年更有「恐怖主義」以及在戰爭，飢荒，苛政之下的苦難人民。世界上仍有許多野心家不聽教宗的呼籲，把人民當作逞遂私欲的工具，進行毫無意義的戰爭。最後教宗用義大利英法德西班牙中日韓等國語言，祝福世界各國人民「新年快樂」。
致詞結束後，教宗走下台階，先和各國使節一一握手，祝賀新年，然後走到女士席，特別停下，允許每位女士和教宗握手合影。這是女士們期待的時刻，女士們很高興，很有秩序地和教宗合影留念。整個活動大約在十二點結束。
回憶錄60 向教宗拜年
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回憶錄60 向教宗拜年
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1. 萬秘書夫婦盛裝出席
2. 萬太太向教宗拜年
3. 萬秘書夫婦和瑞士衛兵合影
4. 瑞士衛兵，制服好帥，米開朗基羅設計
5. 台階上手持古代長戟的衛兵
6. 周大使和館員項公使，謝參事，萬秘書
7. 有紅圈標示同一張照片
8. 萬太太與韓國秘書太太
9. 周大使與教宗
10. 教宗若望保祿二世
Memories 60
Celebrating the Pope's Year
On the second Saturday of the year, the Holy See hosts a diplomatic mission for the New Year. This is a very important traditional festival in which the process seems to go back to the Middle Ages. The theme of the ceremony is the pope's New Year's greeting to the people of the The Holy See has diplomatic relations with some 190 countries around the world, and all ambassadors are invited to attend.
There are about 80 embassies in Rome. Nearly a hundred other countries have embassies in other countries, usually in European capitals, and are assigned to the Holy See as "participants". Every year on this day, envoys from many countries come from Paris, London, Geneva and other places to attend the event.
Invitation is sent out by the Holy See concierge around December every year. Invitation notes date and time, men's and women's clothing, parking location, arrival time, seating time, and please reply to attend. This is a very formal invitation. I'll introduce you to the process I participated in on January 10, 1987.
I put on a big dress at 9am. It includes: tuxedo top, white shirt for dress bought at a special clothing store in Rome, black pants with black edges, white bowtie, shiny leather shoes. My wife has a long black dress, black hair, earrings brooch is basic. Going out dressed up and ran into community admin Marcelo. His eyes brightened, and he saluted us couple.
I drove to the entrance of the day's event, Bill Gate, and there was a Mercedes brakes in front of me with the national flag, supposed to be the ambassador of a certain country, the Swiss guard saluted. Our car is silver grey rich, not much eye-catching, but the license plate is CD diplomatic license plate, and the guards salute us. After entering the gate, the road is full of stone blocks that are five hundred years old. Deep palace halls on both sides, spectacularly beautiful. Arrived at the bell tower square of the Apostles' Palace, I parked my car and walked into the Apostles' Palace with my wife in half heels. Guard standing in line with the aisle of the Apostolic Palace, they keep their medieval dress, wearing iron helmets and holding a bench, swords around the waist, uniforms designed by Michelangelo. The captain of the guard gave a message and they saluted our couple.
The Swiss Guard has a historical tradition. The Swiss were employed as guards in the medieval Papal States. On 6 May 1527 Pope Clemont VII was invaded by the troops of the Holy Roman Empire, and the Swiss guards fought bravely, allowing the pope to avoid disaster in the most urgent moment. The 189-man guard died 147 in action. Since then, the Holy See's guards have been recruited to Switzerland, and Switzerland has been very cooperative, providing the Holy See with men of military age, and May 6 every year marks the anniversary of the recruitment of recruits to declare loyalty to the pope.
Walk through the Apostles' Palace and enter the elevator. The waiter in the elevator in tuxedo led us to the Apostolic Hall, Sala Regia, and then a senior leader asked us what country we came from, then handed me and my wife to two chiefs, one who took me to our seat in the diplomatic corps and the other who guided Mrs. Wan to the women's table.
The seats in the diplomatic corps are clearly arranged. Listed according to the order in which the ambassadors submitted their national letters. The seat on the right hand of the pope is 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 in order. Left hand is 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and so on. At a glance, there are about 80 or 90 ambassadors present. The pope's far opposite is the ladies' table. All black dresses, black pressed one piece, about fifty. The first person on the right hand of the pope, the head of the diplomatic mission, is the Ivory Coast 18 years in office. Nine years since our Ambassador arrived in 1978 and sits third on the left hand of the pope, so he is the 6th senior member of the diplomatic corps. Behind each country's ambassadors, seats are lined up according to the country's embassy job. After our Ambassador Zhou, in order, he was Minister Xiang Shizheng, Director Xie Xinping, Second Secretary Wan Jiaxing. Ambassador Zhou is very concerned about his seat and does not want to move forward, every year at this time he looks at how close he is to the head of the team Because our country and most countries have no diplomatic relations, it is inconvenient to be the head of the diplomatic mission. The ambassador the Holy See wants to serve as head of the diplomatic mission is a person acceptable to all countries. When our ambassadors reach the top three, the Holy See is likely to ask for a change of ambassadors. 74 years old, sixth-ranked ambassador of the week, don't want to be replaced. He hopes that "the longer the better" in the ambassador position.
The costumes of ambassadors are colorful. Most of the scene were wearing tuxedo, ambassadors, and ministers mostly with hanging bands. Our Ambassador Zhou, wearing a ribbon medal, and Minister Niang wearing a medal from Vietnam President Mr. Nguyen Wen Shao gave a medal. Staff officer Xie Xinping and I have no medals to hang. Some European ambassadors with royal family, such as Portugal, Denmark, Belgium, Ireland, etc. wear uniform, like 19th century generals, wearing red-brimmed uniforms, wearing a row of medals on the uniform, holding a high cap like a French cavalryman, with a long sword at the waist, and handsome hair. Moroccan ambassador is the first and second senior on the left hand of the pope, wearing white robe white cap white cap white shoes. Indonesian ambassador in grey, black square cap and red cloth towel around his waist. The Iranian ambassador is dressed in a Muslim dress with a white turban on his head. The Pakistani ambassador wore a grey round neck top and pants like a uniform. Being in the hall is like returning to the 18th century court described in the movie. Philippine ambassador, young and talented, is of Chinese descent surname Li, can talk simply in southern language. Singapore ambassador, early 40s, very young. Our Asian neighbors are changing quickly and vibrant.
At 10:59 a.m., the hall was suddenly bright and the whole diplomatic corps stood up and waited for the pope to come. At eleven o'clock the pope entered the hall and sat gracefully in the Holy See. Then the first Ivory Coast ambassador on the right hand of the pope stood up to greet the pope in French on behalf of the entire diplomatic community. He praised the Pope's contribution to world peace and hoped that all countries would work together to promote world peace. Then the pope also spoke in French, and the whole was quiet. The pope speaks of "world peace". This is the theme mentioned every year, this year there is more "terrorism" and suffering people under war, famines, and tyranny. There are still many ambitionists in the world who do not listen to the pope's call and use the people as instruments of selfish desires to wage senseless wars. Finally, the pope wished the people of the world a "Happy New Year" in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean
At the end of the speech, the pope walked down the steps, shook hands with the envoys one by one, wished the New Year, then walked to the ladies' table, and stopped specifically, allowing each lady to shake hands with the This is the moment the ladies are looking forward to, ladies are very happy and ordered to take a photo with the pope. The whole event ended around 12 o'clock.
Memories 60 to worship the pope
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Memories 60 to worship the pope
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1. 1. Secretary and couple dressed up
2. The Mrs. Wan pays tribute to the pope
3. 3. Secretary couple and Swiss guard photo
4. 4. 4. Swiss guard, nice uniform, Michelangelo design
5. 5. Guard holding ancient benches on the steps
6. 6. 6. Ambassador Zhou and ambassador of the librarian, thank you staff, secretary Wan
7. The Red circles tag the same photo
8. 8. 8. Mrs. Wan and the Korean secretary wife
9. 9. Ambassador Zhou and the pope
10. 10. Pope John Paul II
「每年的第二個星期六教廷舉辦外交團新年團拜。這是個非常重要的傳統節日，其中過程彷若回到中古世紀。儀式的主題是教宗向全世界人民祝賀新年。教廷和全世界大約190個國家有外交關係，所有各國大使都受邀出席。」
⭐Diplomatic work - birthday to the pope 🌟 Ambassador Wan Jiaxing ️
"The Holy See hosts a diplomatic mission for the New Year on the second Saturday of the year. This is a very important traditional festival in which the process seems to go back to the Middle Ages. The theme of the ceremony is the pope's New Year's greeting to the people of the The Holy See has diplomatic relations with some 190 countries around the world, and all ambassadors are invited to attend. " The "
回憶錄60
向教宗拜年
每年的第二個星期六教廷舉辦外交團新年團拜。這是個非常重要的傳統節日，其中過程彷若回到中古世紀。儀式的主題是教宗向全世界人民祝賀新年。教廷和全世界大約190個國家有外交關係，所有各國大使都受邀出席。
在羅馬的駐教廷大使館約八十多個。其它近百國家的大使館在其它國家，通常是在歐洲國家首都，而派駐教廷為「兼使」。每年此日，很多國家的兼使都會從巴黎倫敦日內瓦等地趕來參加盛會。
大約在每年12月教廷禮賓司發出請帖。請帖上面寫明了舉行日期時間，男士和女士的服裝穿著，停車位置，抵達時間，入座時間，以及請回覆參加人員。這是非常正式的請帖。我就把1987年一月十日我參加的過程向大家介紹。
早晨九點我穿上大禮服。它包括：燕尾服上衣，在羅馬特別服飾店買的禮服專用白襯衫，鑲黑邊黑長褲，白領結，光亮的漆皮皮鞋。我太太全身黑長禮服，頭戴黑紗，耳環胸針是基本配備。穿戴整齊出門碰到社區管理員Marcelo。他眼睛一亮，肅然起敬，向我們夫婦敬禮。
我開車到了當天的活動入口，比爾大門時，前方有一輛賓士轎車插著國旗，應該是某國大使，瑞士衛兵立正敬禮。我們的車是銀灰色富豪，不怎麼起眼，但車牌是CD外交車牌，衛兵也向我們敬禮。進了大門後，全是石塊鋪的道路，這些石塊有五百年歷史。兩旁深宮大殿，壯觀美麗。到了使徒宮的鐘樓廣場，我把車停好，攙扶著穿著半高跟鞋的太太，走進使徒宮。使徒宮走道兩旁衛兵列隊站立，他們保持著中古世紀的打扮，戴著鐵盔手持長戟，腰間配著寶劍，制服是米開朗基羅的設計。衛兵隊長一聲口令，他們向我們夫婦立正敬禮。
瑞士衛兵有歷史傳統。在中世紀教皇國雇用瑞士人當衛兵。1527年5月6日教宗克里蒙七世遭到神聖羅馬帝國的軍隊入侵，瑞士衛兵奮勇抵抗，使得教宗在最緊急時刻，躲開災難。此役189人的衛隊陣亡了147人。此後教廷的衛隊一律向瑞士招募，而瑞士也非常配合，提供教廷適合的兵役年齡男子，每年5月6日就成了新兵入伍宣示效忠教宗的紀念日。
走過使徒宮，進入電梯。電梯中的侍者身穿燕尾服，引領我們到宗座廳，Sala Regia，然後一位資深的領位員問了我們來自那個國家，再把我和太太交給兩位領位員，一位帶著我到外交團我國的席位，另一位引導萬太太到女眷席。
外交團的席位排列明確。按照各國大使呈遞國書的先後順序排列。在教宗的右手邊座位依序是第1，3，5，7，9。左手邊是2，4，6，8，10，以此類推。一眼望去，大約有八九十位大使在座。教宗的遠方正對面，是女士席。全部都是黑禮服，黑壓壓一片，大約五十位。教宗右手邊第一位，也就是外交團團長，是象牙海岸大使。已經任職18年。我國周大使1978年抵任，已經9年，坐在教宗左手方第三位，因此他是外交團第6資深者。在各國大使的後面，依該國使館職銜排座位。我國周大使之後依序是項士揆公使，謝新平參事，萬家興二等秘書。周大使非常關心自己的座位，很不希望向前移動，每年此時他都會看自己的位置離團長多近。因為我國和大多國家沒有邦交，擔任外交團團長會不方便。教廷希望擔任外交團團長的大使，是各國都能接受的人選。當我國大使年資快到前三名，教廷很可能要求更換大使。時年74歲，排名第六的周大使，不希望被換掉。他希望在大使位置「越久越好」。
各國大使的服裝多彩多姿。現場絕大多數穿著燕尾服，大使，公使大多配掛綵帶勳章。我國周大使，配戴彩帶勳章，項公使戴著越南總統阮文紹贈與的一枚勳章，謝新平參事和我沒有勳章可配掛。有些歐洲有王室的老牌國家大使例如葡萄牙，丹麥，比利時，愛爾蘭等國大使穿著戎裝，像是十九世紀的將軍，鑲著紅邊的制服，制服上掛著一排勳章，手持像法國騎兵的高帽，腰間配把長劍，雄姿英發。摩洛哥大使為在教宗左手邊第一位，第二資深，一身白衣白袍白帽白披風白鞋。印尼大使一身灰色服裝，頭戴無邊黑色方帽，腰間繫著紅布巾。伊朗大使一身回教打扮，頭上纏白頭巾。巴基斯坦大使穿著像制服的灰色圓領上裝和長褲。置身大廳彷彿回到電影中描述的十八世紀宮廷。菲律賓大使，年輕有為，是李姓華裔後裔，能簡單閩南語交談。新加坡大使，四十歲出頭，非常年輕。我們的亞洲鄰國大使更換很快，朝氣蓬勃。
十點59分大廳突然大放光明，全體外交團起立，靜待教宗蒞臨。十一時整，教宗進入大廳，優雅地坐在聖座。接著教宗右手邊第一位的象牙海岸大使起立，代表全體外交團以法語向教宗祝賀新年。他讚揚教宗對世界和平的貢獻，希望各國共同努力，促進世界和平。隨後教宗也以法語致詞，全體一片肅靜。教宗提到「世界和平」。這是每年都提到的主題，今年更有「恐怖主義」以及在戰爭，飢荒，苛政之下的苦難人民。世界上仍有許多野心家不聽教宗的呼籲，把人民當作逞遂私欲的工具，進行毫無意義的戰爭。最後教宗用義大利英法德西班牙中日韓等國語言，祝福世界各國人民「新年快樂」。
致詞結束後，教宗走下台階，先和各國使節一一握手，祝賀新年，然後走到女士席，特別停下，允許每位女士和教宗握手合影。這是女士們期待的時刻，女士們很高興，很有秩序地和教宗合影留念。整個活動大約在十二點結束。
回憶錄60 向教宗拜年
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回憶錄60 向教宗拜年
圖片說明：貼文日期2021.08.12
1. 萬秘書夫婦盛裝出席
2. 萬太太向教宗拜年
3. 萬秘書夫婦和瑞士衛兵合影
4. 瑞士衛兵，制服好帥，米開朗基羅設計
5. 台階上手持古代長戟的衛兵
6. 周大使和館員項公使，謝參事，萬秘書
7. 有紅圈標示同一張照片
8. 萬太太與韓國秘書太太
9. 周大使與教宗
10. 教宗若望保祿二世
Memories 60
Celebrating the Pope's Year
On the second Saturday of the year, the Holy See hosts a diplomatic mission for the New Year. This is a very important traditional festival in which the process seems to go back to the Middle Ages. The theme of the ceremony is the pope's New Year's greeting to the people of the The Holy See has diplomatic relations with some 190 countries around the world, and all ambassadors are invited to attend.
There are about 80 embassies in Rome. Nearly a hundred other countries have embassies in other countries, usually in European capitals, and are assigned to the Holy See as "participants". Every year on this day, envoys from many countries come from Paris, London, Geneva and other places to attend the event.
Invitation is sent out by the Holy See concierge around December every year. Invitation notes date and time, men's and women's clothing, parking location, arrival time, seating time, and please reply to attend. This is a very formal invitation. I'll introduce you to the process I participated in on January 10, 1987.
I put on a big dress at 9am. It includes: tuxedo top, white shirt for dress bought at a special clothing store in Rome, black pants with black edges, white bowtie, shiny leather shoes. My wife has a long black dress, black hair, earrings brooch is basic. Going out dressed up and ran into community admin Marcelo. His eyes brightened, and he saluted us couple.
I drove to the entrance of the day's event, Bill Gate, and there was a Mercedes brakes in front of me with the national flag, supposed to be the ambassador of a certain country, the Swiss guard saluted. Our car is silver grey rich, not much eye-catching, but the license plate is CD diplomatic license plate, and the guards salute us. After entering the gate, the road is full of stone blocks that are five hundred years old. Deep palace halls on both sides, spectacularly beautiful. Arrived at the bell tower square of the Apostles' Palace, I parked my car and walked into the Apostles' Palace with my wife in half heels. Guard standing in line with the aisle of the Apostolic Palace, they keep their medieval dress, wearing iron helmets and holding a bench, swords around the waist, uniforms designed by Michelangelo. The captain of the guard gave a message and they saluted our couple.
The Swiss Guard has a historical tradition. The Swiss were employed as guards in the medieval Papal States. On 6 May 1527 Pope Clemont VII was invaded by the troops of the Holy Roman Empire, and the Swiss guards fought bravely, allowing the pope to avoid disaster in the most urgent moment. The 189-man guard died 147 in action. Since then, the Holy See's guards have been recruited to Switzerland, and Switzerland has been very cooperative, providing the Holy See with men of military age, and May 6 every year marks the anniversary of the recruitment of recruits to declare loyalty to the pope.
Walk through the Apostles' Palace and enter the elevator. The waiter in the elevator in tuxedo led us to the Apostolic Hall, Sala Regia, and then a senior leader asked us what country we came from, then handed me and my wife to two chiefs, one who took me to our seat in the diplomatic corps and the other who guided Mrs. Wan to the women's table.
The seats in the diplomatic corps are clearly arranged. Listed according to the order in which the ambassadors submitted their national letters. The seat on the right hand of the pope is 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 in order. Left hand is 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and so on. At a glance, there are about 80 or 90 ambassadors present. The pope's far opposite is the ladies' table. All black dresses, black pressed one piece, about fifty. The first person on the right hand of the pope, the head of the diplomatic mission, is the Ivory Coast 18 years in office. Nine years since our Ambassador arrived in 1978 and sits third on the left hand of the pope, so he is the 6th senior member of the diplomatic corps. Behind each country's ambassadors, seats are lined up according to the country's embassy job. After our Ambassador Zhou, in order, he was Minister Xiang Shizheng, Director Xie Xinping, Second Secretary Wan Jiaxing. Ambassador Zhou is very concerned about his seat and does not want to move forward, every year at this time he looks at how close he is to the head of the team Because our country and most countries have no diplomatic relations, it is inconvenient to be the head of the diplomatic mission. The ambassador the Holy See wants to serve as head of the diplomatic mission is a person acceptable to all countries. When our ambassadors reach the top three, the Holy See is likely to ask for a change of ambassadors. 74 years old, sixth-ranked ambassador of the week, don't want to be replaced. He hopes that "the longer the better" in the ambassador position.
The costumes of ambassadors are colorful. Most of the scene were wearing tuxedo, ambassadors, and ministers mostly with hanging bands. Our Ambassador Zhou, wearing a ribbon medal, and Minister Niang wearing a medal from Vietnam President Mr. Nguyen Wen Shao gave a medal. Staff officer Xie Xinping and I have no medals to hang. Some European ambassadors with royal family, such as Portugal, Denmark, Belgium, Ireland, etc. wear uniform, like 19th century generals, wearing red-brimmed uniforms, wearing a row of medals on the uniform, holding a high cap like a French cavalryman, with a long sword at the waist, and handsome hair. Moroccan ambassador is the first and second senior on the left hand of the pope, wearing white robe white cap white cap white shoes. Indonesian ambassador in grey, black square cap and red cloth towel around his waist. The Iranian ambassador is dressed in a Muslim dress with a white turban on his head. The Pakistani ambassador wore a grey round neck top and pants like a uniform. Being in the hall is like returning to the 18th century court described in the movie. Philippine ambassador, young and talented, is of Chinese descent surname Li, can talk simply in southern language. Singapore ambassador, early 40s, very young. Our Asian neighbors are changing quickly and vibrant.
At 10:59 a.m., the hall was suddenly bright and the whole diplomatic corps stood up and waited for the pope to come. At eleven o'clock the pope entered the hall and sat gracefully in the Holy See. Then the first Ivory Coast ambassador on the right hand of the pope stood up to greet the pope in French on behalf of the entire diplomatic community. He praised the Pope's contribution to world peace and hoped that all countries would work together to promote world peace. Then the pope also spoke in French, and the whole was quiet. The pope speaks of "world peace". This is the theme mentioned every year, this year there is more "terrorism" and suffering people under war, famines, and tyranny. There are still many ambitionists in the world who do not listen to the pope's call and use the people as instruments of selfish desires to wage senseless wars. Finally, the pope wished the people of the world a "Happy New Year" in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean
At the end of the speech, the pope walked down the steps, shook hands with the envoys one by one, wished the New Year, then walked to the ladies' table, and stopped specifically, allowing each lady to shake hands with the This is the moment the ladies are looking forward to, ladies are very happy and ordered to take a photo with the pope. The whole event ended around 12 o'clock.
Memories 60 to worship the pope
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Memories 60 to worship the pope
Photo caption: Post date 2021.08.12
1. 1. Secretary and couple dressed up
2. The Mrs. Wan pays tribute to the pope
3. 3. Secretary couple and Swiss guard photo
4. 4. 4. Swiss guard, nice uniform, Michelangelo design
5. 5. Guard holding ancient benches on the steps
6. 6. 6. Ambassador Zhou and ambassador of the librarian, thank you staff, secretary Wan
7. The Red circles tag the same photo
8. 8. 8. Mrs. Wan and the Korean secretary wife
9. 9. Ambassador Zhou and the pope
10. 10. Pope John Paul II
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