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Les Litanies de Satan is a poem by Charles Baudelaire published as part of Les Fleurs du mal. The date of composition is unknown but there is no evidence that it was composed at a different time to the other poems of the volume.The poem is a renunciation of religion and Catholicism in particular. It includes a blasphemous inversion of the Kyrie Eleison and the Glory Be parts of the Catholic Mass or it substitutes Satan for Mary and liturgy directed towards her.