A group of six heathen Japanese junior college students visiting Florence took it upon themselves to desecrate the holiest site in the city, Brunelleschi’s crowning glory Florence Cathedal, a six hundred year old structure noted for its great dome, defacing the marble walls therein by scrawling irreverent graffiti on them in an act of brazen sacrilege.
The college in question has already apologised to the Italian embassy, and promises to discipline those teachers responsible for overseeing the execratory trip.
The heathen pack set upon the walls of the temple like their very namesake the Vandals, scrawling their names and school onto the hallowed walls with markers. The marks were discovered by another group of Japanese who informed the college; the girls commented “We were in a good mood so we wrote those things.”
The college prostrated itself before the great church, offering to pay for the repairs, but the munificent church only replied in Christian forgiveness: “After accepting your apologies we won’t ask you to take responsibility, there is no need to take your money.” Via Yomiuri.
This is very much a head-desk moment, I think.
As an architecture student, this makes me sick. If this was the 1400’s they would of been executed.
lol and then as christians, they demanded that they hand over 6 preteen boys to the priests in Florence as recompense for the incident. And, um, if this was the 1400’s and someone had a seizure they would’ve been deemed “possessed” and executed. So, yeah, get a life, 6 people’s lives aren’t worth a building you retarded sociopath.
i am highly offended, on a purely artistic and architectural level.
Though on the point of brazen sacrilege, the world does that easily enough. Enough to make the priests in the 1400s die from sudden heart failure due to nerd rage.
God must have reason and for them to set foot into the holy place. If it were me, I would have attempt evangelism instead. God Bless.