VATICAN CITY (AP) — The top of St. Peter’s Basilica carried out a particular ceremony Saturday after a person stripped bare and hopped on the principle altar with the phrases “Save youngsters of Ukraina” written on his again.
Cardinal Mauro Gambetti carried out the penitential ceremony following the desecration of the altar with different monks and members of the devoted.
In accordance with Vatican Information, a Polish man approached the basilica’s excessive altar on Thursday at closing time, undressed and jumped up on the marble altar. Pictures of the incident confirmed the bald man in simply black socks and sneakers together with his again to the pews.
The person didn’t resist when gendarmes approached and took him to the Vatican police station. He was handed over to Italian police, who issued an expulsion order requiring him to depart Italy, Vatican Information reported.
It was the newest incident of disturbances on the Vatican in current months. Final summer season, local weather activists glued their arms to a statue within the Vatican Museums to attract consideration to local weather change; they’re now on trial for aggravated harm within the Vatican Metropolis State tribunal.
Final month, a person in a automobile rushed the gates of Vatican Metropolis at night time, rushing previous gendarmes who fired on the automobile. He made it into an inner courtyard of the Apostolic Palace earlier than being stopped. He was despatched to a close-by hospital for psychiatric care.