Recreation

So in the First Commandment we must distinguish the clauses — “Thou shalt not have strange gods before me”, “Thou shall not adore them...

The count paid the expenses. Soon after, at his death, by his will (dated 3 July, 1636) he left considerable property to the chapter...

The coronation of images is an example of an old and obvious symbolic sign of honour that has become a fixed rite. The Greek...

In both East and West the reverence we pay to images has crystallized into formal ritual. In the Latin Rite the priest is commanded...

But there is a difference not of principle but of practice between East and West, to which we have already alluded. Especially since Iconoclasm,...

Epiphanius of Salamis (d. 403) tore down a curtain in a church in Palestine because it had a picture of Christ or a saint....

Long before the outbreak in the eighth century there were isolated cases of persons who feared the ever-growing cult of images and saw in...

A curious story, that illustrates the length to which theworship of images had gone by the eighth century, is told in the “New Garden”...

The icon seems to have been in some sort the channel through which the saint was approached; it has an almost sacramental virtue in...

Long afterwards the Frankish bishops in the eighth century were still unable to understand forms that in the East were natural and obvious, but...