Sacrilege
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
In English criminal law. Larceny from a church.
4 Steph. Comm. 164.
The crime of breaking a church or chapel, and stealing therein.
1 Russ. Crimes, 848.
In old English law
The desecration of anything considered holy; the alienation to lay-men or to profane or common purposes of what was given to religious persons and to pious uses.
Cowell.