Youngsters ‘dressed like Satan’ desecrated church in Naples

    "Churches will be closed or desecrated" 

Our Lady of la Salette

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ROME - A group of youngsters danced around Naples' San Gennaro all’Olmo Church on Halloween while dressed in Satanic clothing. They drank alcohol and played music in the sacred building throughout the evening, and at times even pretended to perform mass at the altar.

 Photos of the youngsters’ inexcusable behaviour were posted online shortly after their departure of the building. In the images, they appear to be sitting on the church’s altar while wearing provocative clothing. A bar appeared to have been set up in a corner, and two DJs were seen to be playing music.

 At one point, they also pretended to be martyrs of the 1799 Neapolitan Revolution. They re-enacted hangings in the choir of the church, where Enlightenment philosopher and historian Giambattista Vico was once baptised.

The young people performed parodies of masses on the high altar. And the closing of the party, in the wee hours of the morning, was a simulated "hanging" of a girl in the upper choir of the church in view of all the guests. 

The Church had been rented to the Giambattista Vico Foundation for a theatrical show. 

 il Presidente : prof. Vincenzo Pepe

The Clarin reports that it is presumed that this is not the only church in Naples where these desecrations happened, but that there would be a dozen.

"Canon 1387 - §2. The following incur a latae sententiae penalty of interdict or, if a cleric, a latae sententiae penalty of suspension: 1) a person who attempts the liturgical action of the eucharistic sacrifice though not promoted to the sacerdotal order.

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