Events Tagged: "desecration"

Antiochus IV Epiphanes becomes Seleucid king - begins aggressive Hellenization of Judea, calls himself 'God Manifest'

Abomination of Desolation - Antiochus sacrifices pig on Temple altar, dedicates Temple to Zeus Olympios, bans circumcision and Sabbath

Death of Constantine V Copronymus - dies on campaign, body later exhumed and burned by iconodules

Revolutionaries burn St. Genevieve's relics - remains publicly burned at Place de Grève, ashes thrown in Seine, some relics hidden