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 ...

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 ...

The Vatican allows Catholic marriages to take place in the Chapel of the Choir in St. Peter’s Basilica and in the small city ...

The altar was built above the tomb of Saint Peter. 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 (Rs 27,15,750 ...

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 man climbed onto the high altar of St Peter’s Basilica and hurled ... was detained and questioned by the Vatican Gendarmerie and Vatican Inspectorate. Matteo Bruni, director of the Vatican ...

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 ...