the incarnation of Jesus
The Incarnation of Jesus
The religions images honored by Eastern Rite Catholics are called icons.
Iconoclasm means the destruction or rejection of religious images or icons based on religious beliefs. It is often carried out as part of religious reform or as a response to the belief that the images are idolatrous.
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Icons. In the Orthodox religion, images of Jesus and the saints are worshipped as if they were Jesus or the saints themselves. At one period in the Byzantine Empire, a group of Emperors opposed this form of worship and moved to have the icons (religious images) destroyed: they were called iconoclasts. However the iconophiles won out, and the icons are still there (well, not in Byzantium but in the Orthodox Churches of Greece and Russia)
In 730, the Byzantine emperor Leo III banned the use of icons. Icons are religious images used by Eastern Christians to aid their prayers.
Most of the religious icons came from Russia.
Not only Ukrainian Catholics use icons - many Catholics across the world do! They are simply a visual representation of important people for different people.
In 730, the Byzantine emperor Leo III banned the use of icons. Icons are religious images used by Eastern Christians to aid their prayers.
In 730, the Byzantine emperor Leo III banned the use of icons. Icons are religious images used by Eastern Christians to aid their prayers.
Iconoclasm comes from the word iconoclast which means a breaker or destroyer of images, especially those set up for religious veneration. So iconoclasm is the breaking or destroying of (religious) icons/images
Iconolatry is the worship of images or icons