Brad Pitt has allegedly tattooed a prayer on his back to protect his adopted son Maddox.

Pitt’s getting a slow start on his current girlfriend, the sultry Angelina Jolie, who is infamously adorned with about a dozen works of body art. His tattoo, which reportedly sits on his strapping lower back, is said to be a Sanskrit blessing of protection for his and Jolie’s four-year-old son. Jolie had a similar tattoo inked into her shoulder shortly after she adopted Maddox. “I asked for it to be done in Buddhist Sanskrit, which is part of [Maddox's] history,” said Jolie at the time.

“A tattoo is something permanent when you’ve made a self-discovery, or something you’ve come to a conclusion about,” Jolie said.

UPDATE: So I guess this is an old story… I was half awake when I posted it.