Vatican Army

Machine-translated from the Spanish article

The Army of the Church State or Army of the Papal States was the army in the service of the Papacy. Established from the Middle Ages, it was disbanded in 1870 with the capture of Rome and the unification of Italy. On a general basis, it can be said that the Church State has sought to defend its material assets and its religious autonomy, resorting, in the first instance, to religious power, especially that of excommunication, or more rarely that of interdict, but when this was not enough, it also made use of arms.