TIL that in 1972 a 33-year-old Hungarian geologist attacked Michelangelo's Pietà statue in St. Peter's Basilica wielding a geologist's hammer and shouting, "I am Jesus Christ—risen from the dead". Pri

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TIL that in 1972 a 33-year-old Hungarian geologist attacked Michelangelo's Pietà statue in St. Peter's Basilica wielding a geologist's hammer and shouting, "I am Jesus Christ—risen from the dead". Prior to this, he had moved to Rome intending to be recognised as Christ by the Pope.

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protist@mander.xyz · 13 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Without knowing anything else about this guy, I'm going to diagnose him with bipolar mania.

SuckMyWang@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

That’s ridiculous, he’s obviously Jesus Christ.

Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net · 10 pts · 2y

Put some effort into your titles, my b'y. Sentence fragments are for the birds

Akasazh@feddit.nl · 7 pts · 2y

Don, can you switch on your bot flair and maybe fix the title parsing of your bot?

idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

That picture isn’t unconvincing

Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y
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downpunxx@fedia.io · 1 pts · 2y

everybody's got a thing