"Here is a review, _La voix de la septaine_, dated 1843.

It informs us that for twenty-five years, at Agen, a Satanistic association regularly celebrated black masses, and committed murder, and polluted three thousand three hundred and twenty hosts! And Monsignor the Bishop of Agen, who was a good and ardent prelate, never dared deny the monstrosities committed in his diocese!" "Yes, we can say it among ourselves," Des Hermies returned, "in the nineteenth century the number of foul-minded abbes has been legion.
Unhappily, though the documents are certain, they are difficult to verify, for no ecclesiastic boasts of such misdeeds.

The celebrants of Deicidal masses dissemble and declare themselves devoted to Christ.

They even affirm that they defend Him by exorcising the possessed.
"That's a good one.

The 'possessed' are made so or kept so by the priests themselves, who are thus assured of subjects and accomplices, especially in the convents.