Another incident occurred on Saturday at St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church in Astoria by the same man who allegedly desecrated the church in early June.
On July 8, Jaime Bonilla walked into the church and began “acting erratically, disturbing the youth choir practice, and frightening the children,” the diocese said in a statement Saturday.
No one was hurt, and no damage was caused to the church, the diocese said.
The police were called and the 22-year-old from Queens was arrested and charged with criminal mischief in connection with the vandalism incident in June.
During the incident on June 5, Bonilla allegedly destroyed framed photos of Pope Francis and Brooklyn Bishop Robert Brennan. In addition, he spread paint thinner on the basement floor and dressed up in priestly vestments, a June statement from the Diocese of Brooklyn said.
One of the priests found Bonilla in the church’s adoration chapel “violently hitting himself in the head with a monstrance,” which is typically a golden vessel used to display the eucharistic host, the statement said.
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