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.
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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laszlo_Toth
6 Comments
protist@mander.xyz · 13 pts · 2y
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
downpunxx@fedia.io · 1 pts · 2y
everybody's got a thing