| For other uses, see Sacrilege (disambiguation).Sacrilege is the violation or injurious treatment of a sacred object.In a less proper sense, any transgression against the virtue of religion would be a sacrilege.It can come in the form of irreverence to sacred persons, places, and things.When the sacrilegious offense is verbal, it is called blasphemy.By the time of Cicero, sacrilege had adopted a more expansive meaning, including verbal offenses against religion and undignified treatment of sacred objects.Most ancient religions have a concept analogous to sacrilege, often considered as a type of taboo.The basic idea is that sacred objects are not to be treated in the same way as other objects.With the advent of Christianity as the official Roman religion, the Emperor Theodosius criminalized sacrilege in an even more expansive sense, including heresy and schism, and offenses against the emperor, including tax evasion.By the Middle Ages, the concept of sacrilege was again restricted to physical acts against sacred objects, and this forms the basis of all later Catholic teaching on the subject.Reformation England, sacrilege was a criminal offense for centuries, though its statutory definition varied considerably.Most English dictionaries of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries appealed to the primary sense of stealing objects from a church.Most modern nations have abandoned laws against sacrilege out of respect for freedom of expression, save in cases where there is an injury to persons or property.Wilson (1952) struck down a statute against sacrilege, ruling that the term could not be narrowly defined in a way that would safeguard against the establishment of one church over another, and that such statutes infringed upon the free exercise of religion and freedom of expression.This page was last modified 17:36, 26 December 2007.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.See Copyrights for details.Midlands region of England.They teamed up with Lynda Simpson, also known as "Tam", to form the new band, Sacrilege.Their second release, Within the Prophecy, was released in 1987 on Under One Flag Records, a subsidiary of the Music for Nations label.Despite having played relatively few gigs during their existence, Sacrilege are today recognised as an important band; both as an influence on later heavy metal and doom metal bands, and as an example of the blending of hardcore punk, radical politics, and heavy metal that occurred during the 1980s.Cathedral, a British doom metal band.Discography
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Thesaurus.Latin sacrilegium, robbing a temple, from sacer, sacred, and legere, to purloin.Sacrilege is in general the violation or injurious treatment of a sacred object.In a less proper sense any transgression against the virtue of religion would be a sacrilege.Theologians are substantially agreed in regarding as sacred that and that only which by a public rite and by Divine or ecclesiastical institution has been dedicated to the worship of God.Attributing a sacred character to a thing is a juridical act, and as such is a function of the governing power of the Church.It is customary to enumerate three kinds of sacrilege: personal, local, and real.Hence the irreverence offered to any one of them is specifically distinct from that which is exhibited to the others.Suarez (De Religione, tr.Personal sacrilege means to deal so irreverently with a sacred person that, whether by the injury inflicted or the defilement caused, there is a breach of the honour due to such person.This sacrilege may be committed chiefly in three ways:
by laying violent hands on a cleric or religious.This constitutes an infraction of what is known as the privilege of the canon (privilegium canonis), and is visited with the penalty of excommunication; by violating the ecclesiastical immunity in so far as it still exists.Latin Church) and religious, even those with simple vows, if these are perpetual.It need hardly be noted that the partners of sacred persons in sins of this kind are to be adjudged equally guilty of sacrilege even though their status be a purely lay one.Local Sacrilege
Local sacrilege is the violation of a sacred place.To all of these was granted the right of asylum the outraging of which was deemed a sacrilege; the commission within the sacred precincts of some sinful act by which, according to canon law, the edifice is esteemed polluted.Real Sacrilege
Real sacrilege is the irreverent treatment of sacred things as distinguished from places and persons.This can happen first of all by the administration or reception of the sacraments (or in the case of the Holy Eucharist by celebration) in the state of mortal sin, as also by advertently doing any of those things invalidly.Indeed deliberate and notable irreverence towards the Holy Eucharist is reputed the worst of all sacrileges.Likewise conscious maltreatment of sacred pictures or relics or perversion of Holy Scripture or sacred vessels to unhallowed uses, and finally, the usurpation or diverting of property (whether movable or immovable) intended for the maintenance of the clergy or serving for the ornamentation of the church to other uses, constitute real sacrileges.Sometimes the guilt of sacrilege may be incurred by omitting what is required for the proper administration of the sacraments or celebration of the sacrifice, as for example, if one were to say Mass without the sacred vestments.Publication information Written by Joseph F.Transcribed by Douglas J.Dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XIII.New York: Robert Appleton Company.Nihil Obstat, February 1, 1912.John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New YorkBibliographySLATER, Manual of Moral Theology (New York, 1908); RICKABY, Moral Teaching of St.BALLERINI, Opus theologicum morale (Prato, 1899); D'ANNIBALE, Summula theologi moralis (Rome, 1908); SPELMAN, The History and Fate of Sacrilege (London, 1888).Desecration, profanation, misuse, or theft of something sacred.The generations succeeded each other; the warrior who had committed the sacrilege perished miserably; the Moonstone passedThe Moonstone by Collins, Wilkie View in contextIt is sacrilege to struggle against so many things, my Lord.The Three Musketeers by Dumas, Alexandre View in context" he added, addressing the clerk at his side, "is it sacrilege or not, by law?All content on this website, including dictionary, thesaurus, literature, geography, and other reference data is for informational purposes only.This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional."See a map of synonyms of sacrilege in the Visual Thesaurus."BC, however, the Latin term for sacrilege came to mean any injury, violation, or profanation of sacred things.Britannica premium article for free, even those readers without a premium membership.Just copy the HTML code fragment provided below to create the link and then paste it within your web content.For more details about this feature, visit our Webmaster and Blogger Tools page."Returned " + google_ads.Note: If no ads are returned, you could show your own ads.For text ads, append each ad to the string.More from Britannica on "sacrilege"...BC, however, the Latin term for sacrilege came to mean any injury, violation, or profanation of sacred things.Legal punishment for such acts was already sanctioned, in the Levitical code of ancient Israel.The Israelites had extensive rules to safeguard what was holy or consecrated, violation of ...Greece, memorial of victory set up on the field of battle at the spot where the enemy had been routed.England (1283) for the crime of treason.Until 1867, when it was abolished, the full punishment for a traitor could include several steps.First he was drawn, that is, tied to a horse and dragged to the gallows.English monk Robert Mannyng is best known as the author of Handlyng Synne, a poem of popular morality, and of the chronicle Story of England.England and are notable for their use of the colloquial English of the day.SiteCatalyst code version: H.Sacrilege, and can also serve as a
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