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The man tried to rip off the cloth, as well as kicking down antique candelabra worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.

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The perpetrator broke several candelabra, worth tens of thousands of Euros, and then ripped off the covering on Saint Peter's tomb before being tackled by security.

Mobile phone footage circulating on social media showed a man standing on the altar under the towering Baldachin canopy.