To make the incident even more ironic - The Leonine Walls that surround the Vatican were literally constructed to protect the Pope from raids by Muslim pirates, who sailed up the River Tiber and burnt down St Paul's Outside the Walls and burnt and ransacked Old St Peter's Basilica back in the 800s
To make the incident even more ironic - The Leonine Walls that surround the Vatican were literally constructed to protect the Pope from raids by Muslim pirates, who sailed up the River Tiber and burnt down St Paul's Outside the Walls and burnt and ransacked Old St Peter's Basilica back in the 800s