St. Peter: the rite of repentance after the desecration of the altar of confession
Cardinal Mauro Gambet, archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica, celebrated a Penitential Mass on Saturday 3 June at noon after the desecration committed in the cathedral on Thursday evening. A man had undressed and stood at the confessional altar, displaying the inscription “Save the Children of Ukraine” on his back. He was arrested by church guards and gendarmes and handed over to the Italian police, who issued an arrest warrant for him.
The priest in St. Peter’s Basilica, Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, celebrates the rite of penance on Saturday 3 June at 12:00, at the altar of confession, in the presence of the canons of St. Peter and the faithful, after the events of St. Peter’s. Thursday evening, June 1. As the cathedral was closing in, a man of Polish nationality, in a visibly altered emotional state, approached the altar, quickly undressed and jumped on the marble.
arrested and expelled from Italian territory
On the back he wrote in pen:Save the children of UkraineIn English. He did not shout or resist the first guards who hastened to take him down and dress him, as well as to the Vatican gendarmes who took him to the offices for identification. Immediately afterwards, according to the rules of the Italian Treaty of the Holy See (part of the Lateran Accords, 1929), the individual was handed over by The Vatican authorities reported to the Italian police, and he was notified of the obligation to leave the territory.
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