1 Maccabees 1:52-54

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁵² Many of the people, everyone who forsook the law, joined them, and they did evil in the land; ⁵³ they drove Israel into hiding in every place of refuge they had.

⁵⁴ Now on the fifteenth day of Chislev, in the one hundred forty-fifth year,^[a] they erected a desolating sacrilege on the altar of burnt offering. They also built altars in the surrounding towns of Judah,