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May 7, 2024 · Eight centuries after the Fourth Crusade’s sack of Constantinople, efforts towards reconciliation between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches were notably advanced by gestures from Pope John Paul II.
Apr 15, 2014 · 810 years ago this week, on April 13, 1204, an unthinkable act occurred: Christian armies sacked Constantinople, in what became known as the Fourth Crusade.
May 7, 2024 · What was the impact of the sack of Constantinople on the relationship between the Catholic and Orthodox churches? The attack deeply damaged relations between the Catholic and Orthodox churches, leading to centuries of estrangement.
- II. Christian Images Before The Eighth Century
- III. The Veneration of Images
- IV. Enemies of Image-Worship Before Iconoclasm
- V. Images After Iconoclasm
- VI. The Principles of Image Worship
—Two questions that obviously must be kept apart are those of the use of sacred images and of the reverence paid to them. That Christians from the very beginning adorned their catacombs with paintings of Christ, of the saints, of scenes from the Bible and allegorical groups is too obvious and too well-known for it to be necessary to insist upon the...
—Distinct from the admission of images is the question of the way they are treated. What signs of reverence, if any, did the first Christians give to the images in their catacombs and churches? For the first period we have no information. There are so few references to images at all in the earliest Christian literature that we should hardly have su...
—Long before the outbreak in the eighth century there were isolated cases of persons who feared the ever-growing cult of images and saw in it danger of a return to the old idolatry. We need hardly quote in this connection the invectives of the Apostolic Fathers against idols (Athenagoras, “Legatio pro Christ.”, xv-xvii; Theophilus, `Ad Autolycum”, ...
—Coronation of Images.—After the storm of the eighth and ninth centuries (see Iconoclasm), the Church throughout the world settled down again in secure possession of her images. Since their triumphant return on the Feast of Orthodoxy in 842, their position has not again been questioned by any of the old Churches. Only now the situation has become m...
—Lastly something must be said about Catholic principles concerning the worship of sacred images. The Latin Cultus sacrarum imaginum may quite well be translated (as it always was in the past) “worship of holy images”, and “image-worshipper” is a convenient term for cultor imaginum—eikonodoulos, as opposed to eikonoklasres (image-breaker). Worship ...
The iconoclast controversy concluded with an official Church teaching on images. The icon found a place in the homes of the faithful; even today the sacred image, before which a small lamp burns, watches from on high over those who live in the house.
Tarasius opened the synod in the church of the Apostles at Constantinople, in August, 786; but it was at once dispersed by the Iconoclast soldiers. The empress disbanded those troops and replaced them by others; it was arranged that the synod should meet at Nicaea in Bithynia, the place of the first general council.
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Feb 22, 2022 · The 4th Crusade aimed to retake Jerusalem. It was well-financed and had Papal backing. So how did it end up sacking a fellow Christian city, the Byzantine Empire’s capital Constantinople?
