A 76-year-old monk died on Monday after being attacked by a man shouting “I am Jesus Christ” in a monastery in southeastern Spain, the religious order said on Monday.
Two others were injured in the rampage on Saturday morning on the Santo Espiritu del Monte monastery in the hills above Gilet, a village 30km (19 miles) north of Valencia.
The middle-aged man broke into the cloister while the brothers were having their breakfast and attacked three of them with a blunt object, the Franciscan order to which the monastery belongs said in a press release.
He was driven away by Brother Angel Ramon, who immediately alerted the authorities, the statement added.
He cried out ‘I’m going to kill the brothers, I am Jesus Christ’
One of the wounded was admitted to hospital “in a critical condition” and succumbed to his injuries on Monday afternoon, a religious official told Agence France-Presse, expressing deep “sadness”.
