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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Kurma-the-Turtle on 2024-08-10 12:41:14+00:00.

Original Title: 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.