Vatican altar ransacked by masked vandal in front of Catholic pilgrims
The man tried to rip off the cloth, as well as kicking down antique candelabra worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.
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Man vandalizes High Altar of St. Peter’s Basilica
A man climbed onto the altar of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican February 7 knocking over several candelabras before being ...
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The Catholic Church’s Copes of Many Colors
COMMENTARY: Liturgical vestments like copes, chasubles and dalmatics are part of the beauty of the liturgy, alongside church ...
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Large mural discovered behind a wall in St. Anthony’s Church
One such piece was a large mural painted directly onto a wall in the church’s interior, to the left of the parishioners facing the main altar ... something was behind that church wall.
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Man attacks high altar of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican
A man desecrated the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica on Friday by climbing on top of it and throwing six candelabras that ...
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Vatican altar ransacked by masked vandal in front of Catholic pilgrims
Before he could do this fully, five security guards dressed in black intervened and pined him down behind the altar. ANSA said that the man, a Romanian citizen, was detained and questioned by the ...
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Man Attacks High Altar of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican
In 2023 a similar incident was recorded when a man climbed the high altar and undressed, after which he was also arrested. The Code of Canon Law, the law that regulates the Catholic Church ...