Is Vigano Our Modern Day Brandano?

On Holy Thursday 1527 while Clement VII was blessing the crowds in St. Peter’s, Brandano da Petroio, who was venerated by the crowds as ‘Christ’s Madman,’ shouted: “Sodomite bastard, for your sins Rome will be destroyed. Confess and convert, for in fourteen days the wrath of God will fall upon you and the City.” On … Read more