Gianni Crea

Sistine Chapel key-keeper opens up after lockdown

By Paolo Lucariello and Elisa Colella — February 7, 2021
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Sistine Chapel reopened to public view last week, but for Gianni Crea, the doors to Michelangelo's magnificent frescoes were never really closed.

The pope is not the only keeper of the keys in the Vatican

By Josephine McKenna — October 13, 2016
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Gianni Crea has 2,797 of them. And he and his team of official 'key keepers' use them to open 300 doors around the Vatican, and lock them again each night. Now if only he could find his house key.
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