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Man jumps onto high altar in St. Peter’s Basilica
February 11, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: A man jumped onto the high altar at St. Peter’s Basilica, pulled off the altar cloth, and knocked over candelabra.
A Vatican spokesman said that the man has a “serious mental disability,” was “detained by the Vatican Police, and then placed at the disposal of the Italian authorities.”
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