{"id":81884,"date":"2025-10-13T18:54:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/?p=81884"},"modified":"2025-10-13T18:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:57:10","slug":"purification-of-the-saint-peters-alter-after-a-man-desecrated-it-by-urination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2025\/10\/13\/purification-of-the-saint-peters-alter-after-a-man-desecrated-it-by-urination\/","title":{"rendered":"Purification of the Saint Peter's alter after a man desecrated it by urination"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>This scene went viral on social media.<\/strong><br>Watch how the security at Saint Peter's removes this man for urinating on the main altar of the basilica, right beneath Bernini's canopy.<br><br><strong>The image went around the world. <\/strong>The faithful consider it a serious act of vandalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>It\u2019s a lack of respect for the religion, for the place\u2014above all\u2014for the culture... In the sense that something like this has never been seen before, and personally, I have no words.<\/em><strong><br><br><\/strong><em>The person who did this... To me, it\u2019s a disgrace to do such a thing. A disgrace.<br><br><\/em>They also believe that it should not go unpunished. They think the Vatican should impose sanctions, as that would be the case in any other country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A relative of mine, for peeing on a street in Madrid\u2014when it was impossible to find a bathroom\u2014was fined 700 euros, so a hefty sanction wouldn\u2019t be a bad idea.<br><br>A good fine, but not 600\u20146,000. Just like that. Plain and simple.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If these images stirred anything in the basilica, it was criticism of the security protocols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Maybe stand a little closer to the alter when you see somebody ya know about to do something like that. You could stop them. Drag them away, ya know? Something like that.<br><br>It doesn\u2019t seem logical to me that with the kind of security there is in the Vatican, they would allow something like that to happen. I mean\u2026 they need to be more watchful.<br><br><\/em>This isn\u2019t the first time something like this has happened. In February, another man climbed onto the same altar, knocking the candlesticks to the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, in 2023, another person, completely naked, got up on the altar in protest over children suffering from the consequences of the war in Ukraine.<br><br>What is clear is that this scene was a desecration, given that it took place in a sacred space. The altar needed to be purified. This is how they did that in the basilica. It was a penitential rite, presided over by Cardinal Gambetti. Among other things, the Creed was recited, and the entire altar was sprinkled with holy water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CA\/AT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trans. CRT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch how the security at Saint Peter's removes this man for urinating on the main altar of the basilica, right beneath Bernini's canopy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":81881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/gVJtvcneVFg","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bprofanazionestpietroeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bprofanazionestpietroint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81884"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81887,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81884\/revisions\/81887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}