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Q: What did Catholics cite to defend using religious icons and images in their art?
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What religious images are honored by the Eastern Rite Catholics?

The religions images honored by Eastern Rite Catholics are called icons.


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What were iconoclasts opposed to?

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)


What caused the strain in the Christian church in 730?

In 730, the Byzantine emperor Leo III banned the use of icons. Icons are religious images used by Eastern Christians to aid their prayers.


Where did religious icons come from?

Most of the religious icons came from Russia.


Why do Ukrainian Catholics use icons?

Not only Ukrainian Catholics use icons - many Catholics across the world do! They are simply a visual representation of important people for different people.


What event cause a strain in the Christian church in 730?

In 730, the Byzantine emperor Leo III banned the use of icons. Icons are religious images used by Eastern Christians to aid their prayers.


What events caused a strain in the christian church in 730?

In 730, the Byzantine emperor Leo III banned the use of icons. Icons are religious images used by Eastern Christians to aid their prayers.


The Protestant condemnation of religious art resulted in iconoclasm across Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. What is iconoclasm?

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


What is the name given to individuals who were lovers of icons?

Iconolatry is the worship of images or icons


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