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 76
Second Council of Nicea: Decree on Icons, 787.
Decree of Second Council of Nicea, 787
THE DECREE OF THE HOLY, GREAT, ECUMENICAL SYNOD, THE SECOND OF...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 77
We believe …life of the world to come. Amen.
We detest and anathematize Arius and all the sharers of his absurd opinion; also Macedonius and...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 62
Saint Athanasius against the Arians.–Book III.
The Son being of the same substance as the Father, He can justly say that He has what the...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 78
For by so much more frequently as they are seen in artistic representation, by so much more readily are men lifted up to the...
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...
