SOULE, France (LifeSiteNews) — Radical Spanish feminist comedian and performer Ane Miren Hernández Unda, whose stage name is Ane Lindane, posted a video of herself on social media desecrating an altar inside the historic Saint-Laurent-d’Arbérats Church this week during a “comedy” show as part of a local festival.
During her Sunday, June 29 routine, Lindane, who was dressed immodestly, jumped on top of the altar, shouting multiple blasphemies about Our Lord and the Church, and used a crucifix to commit a sacrilege, then posted the sacrilegious and impure video on her social media pages. At the time, Saint-Laurent-d’Arbérats Church, which dates back to the 17th century, was being loaned for use as part of the annual Euskal Herria Zuzenean (EHZ) festival, which promotes feminism, “sexual freedom,” anti-capitalism, ecology, social justice, and cultural diversity, among other progressive ideologies.
The bishop of the Diocese of Bayonne, Lascar, and Oloron responded by strongly condemning the “anti-Christian” act of sacrilege.
“Yesterday I gave a great monologue at the Euskal Herria Zuzenean festival. In an unconsecrated church, 200 of us shook the foundations of Catholicism with laughter. We desecrated, blasphemed, and denounced the Church’s sexual abuses,” Lindane wrote on X.
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Despite Lindane’s claims that the church was unconsecrated, a light can be seen by the tabernacle, indicating that the Blessed Sacrament was indeed present at the time. Regardless, her actions on the altar are an act of sacrilege.
As canon 1210 of the Code of Canon Law states:
In a sacred place, only those things are to be permitted which serve to exercise or promote worship, piety and religion. Anything out of harmony with the holiness of the place is forbidden. The Ordinary may, however, for individual cases, permit other uses, provided they are not contrary to the sacred character of the place.
Bishop Marc Aillet of the Diocese of Bayonne, Lascar, and Oloron condemned the sacrilegious act and called for proper reparation to be made for the sacrilege in a July 2 statement.
“After standing on the altar of the Church of the village of Arbérats-Sillègue, (Lindane) made particularly obscene gestures while making violently anti-Christian remarks,” the bishop wrote.
“Such actions, which should be precise, have occurred in a church dedicated to worship, deeply aroused the Catholic community. In the eyes of the Church, they constitute a sacrilege that calls for an act of reparation,” he added.
The day after the sacrilegious performance, the Spanish Foundation of Christian Lawyers filed a complaint against Lindane for committing a crime of religious ridicule under Spain’s penal code.
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In recent years, numerous French Catholic churches have been subject to sacrilegious attacks. In one case in 2024, the Blessed Sacrament was stolen from the Church of St. John the Baptist in the Diocese of Rouen. Several French parishes have also been attacked by Islamists, including the Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Repos Church in Avignon earlier this year.
