Sacred Images Edwin O'Connor supplying omitted lines and stanzas

supplying omitted lines and stanzas to the poems

and thus redeem it

In all of this

he served the Church in a variety of positions

to express them in such a way that the path from man to God is illuminated

Sacred Images Edwin O'Connor supplying omitted lines and stanzasBy St. John Damascene Mary H. Allies War is toil and trouble, wrote the poet John Dryden in 1697. Almost a thousand years before, a war in the Byzantine Empire proved no exception to this rule. Yet it was not a war of fire and sword, but of images and words, waged not in the name of domination, but of divine worship. It was the iconomachythe war of iconsnow known as the Iconoclastic Controversy. The Iconoclasts contended, in keeping with the Old Law