For two decades, a popular Rome souvenir featuring close-ups of young, handsome men in priestly attire has graced countless walls but it has now emerged that few of these alluring figures are actually men of the cloth.
The long-standing cover model, Giovanni Galizia, whose enigmatic smile has adorned the so-called "sexy priest calendar" for many of its 23 editions, is among those who never took holy orders. Galizia, now a 39-year-old flight attendant for a Spanish airline, was just 17 when he posed for the photograph.
