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If I honour the images of false gods, how can I praise and glorify and keep the feast of the three children at Babylon who would not worship the golden statue? How greatly foolish...

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 every available place, so that ever before me, I may...

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 mouths of foolish people speaking injustice may be closed. This...

And immediately Berenice the sick woman of yore, set up in the midst of her own city of Paneada a monument in bronze, adorned with gold and silver. It is still standing in the...

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 time John the Baptist became known to men, and Herod,...

Jacob, when he was about to die, worshipped on the point of Joseph `s staff, not honouring the staff but its owner. just in the same way do we greet images as we should...

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, so he who does not honour the image does not...

And may Christ fill you with the joy of His resurrection, most holy flock of Christ, Christian people, chosen race, body of the Church, and make you worthy to walk in the footsteps of...

If any man is to have his foolish way, in a short time the whole Organisation of the Church will be reduced to nothing. Brethren and beloved children of the Church do not put...

The fourth kind of worship is that of images seen by the prophets. They saw God in sensible vision, and images of future things, as Aaron’s rod, the figure of Our Lady’s virginity, the...