The man tried to rip off the cloth, as well as kicking down antique candelabra worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.

A man desecrated the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica on Friday by climbing on top of it and throwing six candelabras that ...

A Virginia Catholic bishop says the desecration of the main altar in St. Peter’s Basilica on Friday points to a larger ...

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Security staff at the Vatican have apprehended a man after he jumped on to the main altar in St Peter’s Basilica and damaged some candelabra. The incident, which took place on 7 February ...

ROME, Italy - A man jumped onto the altar of St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on Friday, knocking off six candelabra worth about 30,000 euros before officers intervened, reports said. The man, of ...

A man has caused minor damage at St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican after jumping onto the main altar and knocking over 19th-century candelabra, worth several thousand dollars. Video posted on ...

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 Vatican Gendarmerie and Vatican ...

A man desecrated the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican by climbing on top of ... establishes in canon 1210 that “in a sacred place” such as St. Peter’s Basilica, “only ...

ROME, Italy — A man jumped onto the altar of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on Friday, knocking off six candelabra worth about 30,000 euros before officers intervened, reports said.

A general view shows Pope Francis leading a mass during the Jubilee of the World of Communications at St Peter's basilica in The Vatican. Photo: Andreas SOLARO/AFP. A man jumped onto the altar of St ...