Thus, not only were convents burned, but sepulchers were profaned and graves were emptied. Even the Scriptures themselves were profaned by their rash and sacrilegious hands. His relics were profaned by the Huguenots in 1562. Many tombs were profaned, and the human remains in them scattered. A Christian Mass was celebrated in the Umayyad Mosque and numerous mosques were profaned. All of these chapels were profaned between the 1650s and the 1680s. On March 31 2011 the tomb was profaned by some vandals. An image of the Virgin Mary was profaned. In doing this, they profaned the "Djebanet El Bashawet".