Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 73
The Emperor, after the death of the Patriarch Anastasius (A.D. 753), summoned the bishops of his Empire to a great synod in the palace...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 74
Monasteries were destroyed, made into barracks, or secularized. Lachanodraco, governor of the Thracian Theme, seems to have exceeded Copronymus in his ribaldry and injustice....
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 75
Tarasius, the new Patriarch of Constantinople and a supporter of images, succeeded, after overcoming much difficulty, and especially distrust in Rome and the East,...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 61
If I honour the images of false gods, how can I praise and glorify and keep the feast of the three children at Babylon...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 60
On this account I depict Christ and His sufferings in churches, and houses, and public places, and images, on clothes, and store-houses, and in...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 59
St Leontius of Naples, in Cyprus, against the Jews-Book v.
Enter then heartily into our apology for the making of sacred images, so that the...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 58
And immediately Berenice the sick woman of yore, set up in the midst of her own city of Paneada a monument in bronze, adorned...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 57
John of Antioch, also called Malala, from his Chronography concerning the “Woman with the Issue of Blood, who erected a Monument to Christ.”
From that...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 56
Jacob, when he was about to die, worshipped on the point of Joseph `s staff, not honouring the staff but its owner. just in...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 55
Commentary.-Just, then, as “he who does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who sent Him,” (Jn. 5.23) as our Lord says,...
