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Tarasius, the new Patriarch of Constantinople and a supporter of images, succeeded, after overcoming much difficulty, and especially distrust in Rome and the East, after also removing the excited army, in bringing together a...

Second Council of Nicea: Decree on Icons, 787.Decree of Second Council of Nicea, 787THE DECREE OF THE HOLY, GREAT, ECUMENICAL SYNOD, THE SECOND OF NICEA(Found in Labbe and Cossart, Concilia. Tom. VII., col. 552.)...

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 those who following him are well styled “Foes of the...

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 Father has. Hence it was fitting and proper that after...

For by so much more frequently as they are seen in artistic representation, by so much more readily are men lifted up to the memory of their prototypes, and to a longing after them;...

St Cyril of Jerusalem, twelfth Instruction.If you seek the cause of Christ’s presence, go back to the first chapter of Scripture. God made the world in six days, but the world was made for...

Jerome, Priest of Jerusalem, On The Holy Trinity.As the Scripture nowhere enjoins you to worship the Cross, what makes you adore it? Tell us, Jews and heathens, and all inquiring people.Answer.-On this account,...

St Athanasius of Mount Sinai on the New Sabbath, and on St Thomas the Apostle.Those who saw Christ in the flesh looked upon Him as a prophet. We, who have not seen Him, have...

Throwing myself on the ground, and worshipping that holy floor, I came out, and went to her who had promised to be my security. When I came to the place in which the agreement...

As then Christ armed his Apostles against the ancient idolatry with the power of the Holy Spirit, and sent them out into all the world, so has he awakened against the new idolatry his...