Cuprian Adamite, conichalcite, Greece, photo by Toth Laszlo
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1972 –Vandalism the Pietà
Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.
On 21 May 1972 (Pentecost Sunday), when a mentally disturbed geologist, the Hungarian-born Australian Laszlo Toth, walked into the chapel and attacked the sculpture with a geologist's hammer while shouting, "I am Jesus Christ; I have risen from the dead!"[15] With 15 blows he removed Mary's arm at the elbow, knocked off a chunk of her nose, and chipped one of her eyelids.
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Laszlo's hand
Laszlo Toth (HU, 1938)
Toth was born in Pilisvörösvár, Hungary, to a Roman Catholic family. After graduating in geology, in 1965 he moved to Australia (27 y/o) w poor English and his geology diploma unaccredited...
In June 1971 (age 33) moved to Rome intending to become “recognized as Christ” (sent letters -possibly in Hungarian- to Pope Paul VI)
Ηe vandalised only the Madonna of Michelangelo's Pietà sculptural group, on 21 May 1972. With fifteen blows he removed her arm in pieces, part of her nose, an eyelid...
Bob Cassilly, reacted before a group of bystanders pulled the maniac away.
He was never charged because of his evident disorder, but was kept in Italian psychiatric hospital for two years and then immediately deported to Australia. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laszlo_Toth
Ditko Comics: New Ditko - LASZLO'S HAMMER, 1992 (Steve Ditko)
Hand from Michelangelo’s Pieta after Laszlo Toth’s attack with a hammer in May 1972. - hh73 & cluster123456
Dominique Papety: En el baño, 1835
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SON OF THE WHITE MARE:
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Genuinely shot coffee out of my mouth laughing in the lounge at work reading about Laszlo Toth having moved to Italy in the 1970s and not knowing any Italian just to try and get the Pope to recognise him as Jesus Christ.
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Laszlo Toth (Belgian GP, Friday - August 26, 2022) (x)
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The most substantial damage to the Pietà occurred on 21 May 1972 when a mentally disturbed geologist, the Hungarian-born Australian Laszlo Toth, walked into the chapel and attacked the sculpture with a geologist's hammer while shouting, "I am Jesus Christ; I have risen from the dead!" With 15 blows he removed Mary's arm at the elbow, knocked off a chunk of her nose, and chipped one of her eyelids.
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Michelangelo's Pietà after being vandalized in 1972 by Laszlo Toth, a mentally ill geologist who attacked the sculpture with a hammer, shouting "I am Jesus Christ; I have risen from the dead!".
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Fundie Families and Adjacents I Follow: Anderson
Steven Lee Anderson- July 24, 1981
Zsuzsanna R "Zuzu" Toth- March 25, 1979
Zuzu was born in Germany. They married on August 13, 2000, at age 19 and 21. They share 12 children, 2 daughters-in-law, and 1 grandson.
1- Solomon Ezra- September 28, 2001
2- Isaac- February 18, 2003
3- John- December 11, 2004
4- Miriam- February 14, 2007
5- Rebecca Helen "Becky"- October 20, 2008
6- Anna Marie- December 8, 2010
7- Stephen Gilliatt- July 24, 2012
8- Boaz Barnabas- May 6, 2014
Jachin Thomas- miscarried twin of Boaz
9- Chloe Pearl- May 18, 2016
10- Peter Laszlo- January 15, 2018
11- Eva Rose- September 22, 2019
12- Oliver Philip- May 31, 2022
Solomon proposed to a Saer Marie Fairchild (March 2001) on December 25, 2018 at age 17. They were suppose to wed on November 23, 2019 but broke up. It has been rumored they broke up due to an alleged video called "Shit Filled Cupcakes" that Saer's parents filmed that might have been pornographic. Solomon married Chloe Miller on January 6, 2024.
Isaac married Artemesia Frapp "Arti" in April 2023. They are expecting their first son.
1- Baby Boy- 2024
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@iboboxingofficial Jack McGann @jackmcgann9 becomes the first ever IBO European Super Welterweight Champion tonight by beating veteran Laszlo Toth by TKO, Toth didn’t come out for round seven at the York Hall, Bethnal Green, UK. #boxing #sports #champ #champion #ibo #iboboxing #iboboxingchampion #latinboxsports https://www.instagram.com/p/CpWPjYbuqzQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Fluorite, Parádsasvár, Northern Hungary, Sándor Klaj Collection, Photo by Tóth Laszlo
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actually i think my favorite thing ever is accidentally discovering interesting rabbit holes. like today i looked up the litany against fear & clicked on some random website to read it. there was a link to go back to the homepage, and it didn’t look like a quotes site, so i clicked out of curiosity and was met with this:
he’s just really into railroads and trains. this was last updated in 2005. i’m kind of fascinated
but i think the coolest one i’ve found was from a few months ago i believe; i was planning a hypothetical road trip to visit my favorite place (the st. louis city museum) so i was looking up landmarks & stuff in st louis & found cementland. the name intrigued me so i looked up what it was and found out it was an “incomplete public art exhibit” made by bob cassilly. clicked on bob cassilly’s wikipedia page link & BOOM. he’s the guy who made the city museum!! i didn’t even know that! what a cool rabbit hole! BUT THERE’S MORE. i started reading through his wikipedia page. apparently he was in rome on his honeymoon when laszlo toth vandalized the pietà and was the first one to act to subdue him. which is cool as fuck imagine being able to tell that story. he made a shitton of sculptures for st. louis as well, some of which i recognized but hadn’t known the sculptor of. and then he started working on cementland. and i’ll just.. leave this here
so i was like. hello. oh my god. i have to solve this murder case now. but there’s like no one talking about it! i remember i found like one single true crime podcast episode on it and that was pretty much it.
this post doesn’t really have a point i just love rabbit holes like these. everyone please reblog with your favorite accidentally-discovered rabbit holes
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Today in Christian History
Today is Saturday, May 21st, the 141st day of 2022. There are 224 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
1382: A great earthquake in England destroys some churches in Kent and damages Canterbury Cathedral.
1535: Henry Phillips betrays William Tyndale to Roman Catholic authorities in Antwerp. Phillips, an agent of Henry VIII, already has a long track record of villainy. Tyndale will be strangled and burned.
1536: William Farel preaches so effectively in Geneva that its people swear an oath with lifted hands “to live in the holy evangelical law and the word of God as it has been announced to us desiring to abandon all masses, images, idols and all which may pertain thereto to live in union and obedience to justice.” They also vow to set up a school for poor children and to educate their children.
1872: Death on the Isle of Mull of hymnwriter Mary Macdougal Macdonald. The daughter of a Baptist cleric, she wrote in Gaelic. Her best known hymn is “Child in the Manger.”
1874: Ira Sankey first sings “The Ninety and Nine” (the “Lost Sheep” song). His audience is deeply moved.
1884: Fourteen-year old Matrona Petrovna Frolova enters the Krasnoslobodsky Trinity women's monastery in Penza province. Four years later she will become a nun at Kazan. In 1907 she will receive a Red Cross medal for her work during the Russo-Japanese war. She becomes abbess of a Kazan monastery, where she will make every possible defense against its dismantling by the Soviets. She will be arrested many times in succeeding years, deprived of her right to vote, and shot in her old age.
1891: George Louis Williams is ordained as a Congregational minister at Oberlin College, Ohio. He will become a missionary to China where he and his wife will work among opium addicts. Williams will be murdered in the Boxer Rebellion but his wife will heroically continue the mission work.
1921: Baptism of Jeremiah Mahalu Kisula. He will become the first bishop in Tanzania for the Africa Inland Mission, recognized as a prayer-warrior, church planter, and author.
1972: Laszlo Toth, a mad man wielding a hammer, and shouting “I am Jesus Christ—risen from the dead,” attacks Michaelangelo’s sculpture the Pieta, chipping the nose and left eye of the Madonna, and breaking off her left arm.
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Maloney recovers from sprint race crash to take maiden F3 win in feature | Formula 3
Zane Maloney, who was involved in a frightening accident during Saturday’s Sprint Race, taking his first FIA Formula 3 win in the feature race at Spa.
Caio Collet had taken pole position, with Maloney alongside him on the front row. Collet got a good start but was immediately under pressure from Francesco Pizzi and Olive Goethe, who had started on the second row.
An early incident between Pizzi, Kush Maini and Victor Martins prompted the first Safety Car of the race. Martins’ race was over, the retrieval of his car lasting from lap two to six.
On the restart, Goethe was almost immediately overtaken by Collet. Oliver Bearman, who had started eighth, was also troubling Jonny Edgar for fifth. Collet, meanwhile, was issued a five-second time penalty for leaving the track and rejoining unsafely on the opening lap, relegating him heavily.
Meanwhile, Maloney was hunting down Goethe but green flag running was short lived, when Gregoire Saucy found the barriers out of Melmedy, prompting another Safety Car from lap seven to lap ten.
On the lap 11 restart, Maloney took the lead through Les Combes, leaving the drivers behind him to scrap for podium positions. Maloney comfortably led the remaining seven laps and became the first driver from Barbados to win in Formula 3.
Bearman finished third which, combined with his Sprint Race win and a generally atrocious weekend for championship leaders Isack Hadjar and Victor Martins, puts him now into second place, just two points behind Hadjar in the standings.
Formula 3 will decide its 2022 champion over the following two weekends, in Zandvoort and Monza.
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Formula 3 Belgium race two results
Position
Car
Driver
Team
1
3
Zane Maloney
Trident
2
2
Roman Stanek
Trident
3
6
Oliver Bearman
Prema
4
21
Oliver Goethe
Campos
5
1
Jonny Edgar
Trident
6
10
Caio Collet
MP
7
20
David Vidales
Campos
8
25
William Alatalo
Jenzer
9
11
Alexander Smolyar
MP
10
31
Reece Ushijima
HWA
11
4
Arthur Leclerc
Prema
12
29
Franco Colapinto
HWA
13
26
Zak O’Sullivan
Carlin
14
18
Isack Hadjar
Hitech
15
9
Juan Manuel Correa
ART
16
17
Alexander Smolyar
MP
17
5
Jak Crawford
Prema
18
27
Brad Benavides
Carlin
19
30
Rafael Villagomez
HWA
20
19
Nazim Azman
Hitech
21
16
Francesco Pizzi
Charouz
22
22
Pepe Marti
Campos
23
15
Christian Mansell
Charouz
24
28
Enzo Trulli
Carlin
25
14
Laszlo Toth
Charouz
26
24
Federico Malvestiti
Jenzer
27
8
Gregoire Saucy
ART
28
23
Ido Cohen
Jenzer
29
7
Victor Martins
ART
30
12
Kush Maini
MP
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Pietà (Michelangelo)
The most substantial damage occurred on 21 May 1972 (Pentecost Sunday), when a mentally disturbed geologist, the Hungarian-born Australian Laszlo Toth, walked into the chapel and attacked the sculpture with a geologist's hammer while shouting, "I am Jesus Christ; I have risen from the dead!"[15] With 15 blows he removed Mary's arm at the elbow, knocked off a chunk of her nose, and chipped one of her eyelids. Bob Cassilly, an American sculptor and artist from St. Louis, Missouri, was one of the first people to remove Toth from the Pietà. "I leaped up and grabbed the guy by the beard. We both fell into the crowd of screaming Italians. It was something of a scene."[16] Onlookers took many of the pieces of marble that flew off. Later, some pieces were returned, but many were not, including Mary's nose, which had to be reconstructed from a block cut out of her back.
After the attack, the work was painstakingly restored and returned to its place in St. Peter's, just to the right of the entrance, between the holy door and the altar of Saint Sebastian, and is now protected by a bulletproof acrylic glass panel.[17]
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