RomeAP —
A calendar featuring close-ups of young, handsome men in priestly attire has been a perennial Rome souvenir for the last two decades – but few, it seems, are actually men of the cloth.
Giovanni Galizia has been the cover shot for the so-called sexy priest calendar for many of the last 23 editions. In the same photo used year after year, Galizia wears a clerical collar and flashes an enigmatic smile worthy of the Mona Lisa against the granite wall of a church in his native Palermo.
“It was the smile of an embarrassed kid, because I saw all my friends in front of me laughing out loud because I was dressed like I was a priest,” Galizia told…