profaned

Ultimately, as Kesling put it, “The sacred was profaned.”

A group of drunken men may have profaned its soil.

“All that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life … ”

But he said he also felt he couldn’t stay silent because Italy’s RAI state television had allowed images that “mocked and profaned the sacred signs of the Catholic faith by evoking the gesture of Baptism in a dull and desecrating context.”

They added the congregation had "been wronged on such an important day for every believer" and that worship had "been profaned".