Do you think such apparitions somehow have a logical connection to intercession and mariolatry?
as folk religion it was a survival from paganism at a time when europe was half-christianized the iconophiles were driven more by economics and factional politics than by an honest desire to glorify Christ and His martyrs
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So you reject the Council?
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It’s complicated - after Chalcedon the councils got increasingly bound up with, and dependent on, Byz politics, plus fallout over the dueling anathemas from the splinter Eastern churches
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I think the basic gist of II° Nicaea - to deny Hieria recognition as an ecumenical council, to forbid the worship of images while de-criminalizing their use in sacred art - was wise
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