the hooded man rose obediently to his feet and began to read from one of the papers : charges of bestiality and foul sacrifice , of the spilling of the blood of innocents , the profanation of the most holy rite of the mass by desecration of the host , the performance of amatory rites upon the altar of god-i had a quick flash of just what the healing raymond had performed on me at l'hopital des anges must have looked like , and felt profoundly grateful that no one had discovered him .