Marco Venetti is a Catholic priest.
He is definitely not a spy and is quite happy and secure in his chosen profession without any urge to try another vocation; this makes it interesting that he is now a member of a compendium full of spies and operatives and assassins. Venetti is none of those.
He is the resident priest at the Catholic church in Monterosso al Mare, a small community of a bit over 1,000 souls nestled in a cove on the northwestern side of Italy in the province of La Spezia, part of five villages in Cinque Terre. Living in such a beautiful place is not only calming and serene, it affords him frequent opportunity to partake in one of his passions - scuba diving.
Venetti had learned this skill from his time in the Italian navy years before and kept up his abilities with it ever since, becoming very confident underwater. This is be the environment that we will watch him take actions that shift him, temporarily at least, from his starched collar ecclesiastical work to those more common to those in the cloak and dagger worlds.
While Venetti is definitely a man-of-the-cloth and one who takes his vows very seriously, he is by no means a meek and timid man. He may at times decide to turn the other cheek but he is not a man to upset because he has only two cheeks and then, well, it is his turn. In the regards, we will find along with him that that attitude will be called upon frequently as life starts pushing him into situations quite outside the norm of his small parish.
One interesting note concerning Venetti and his Vows as well as his love of diving - he owns as part of his underwater equipment three spearguns which he has named the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. In his first action in that first recorded adventure, he chooses the last one because with the Holy Ghost "he could never recall missing a shot".