Information reaching the executive office of RECOWACERAO NEWS AGENCY, RECONA indicated that one man has exhibited an obnoxious behavior in the city of the Vatican. This man has blatantly desecrated the Main Altar of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. In a very strange manner, this man has confusedly thrown the Candelabras to the Ground and removed the altar clothes.
A Vatican reporter narrated that this man desecrated the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican by climbing on top of it and throwing six candelabras that were on the altar to the ground. This version was in a message by the Italian news agency ANSA.
After throwing the candelabras, the man began to remove the altar cloth, as seen in a video on social media. The subject was then quickly detained by security agents.
According to ANSA, the suspect, of Romanian origin, was detained by the Vatican Police, after which he was identified and charged by agents of the Vatican Inspectorate.
“This is an episode of a person with a serious mental disability, who has been detained by the Vatican Police and then placed at the disposal of the Italian authorities,” the director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni, told ANSA.
According to the Spanish newspaper ABC, the man was arrested because the basilica’s alarm was activated when he stood on the altar.
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, establishes in canon 1210 that “in a sacred place” such as St. Peter’s Basilica, “only those things which serve the exercise or promotion of worship, piety, or religion are permitted in a sacred place; anything not consonant with the holiness of the place is forbidden.”
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