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The following images are taken from the Pitts Theology Library Digital Image Archive. Because they are faithful reproductions of a two-dimensional works of art on which copyright has expired, the images are themselves in the public domain.
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Catholics use images, such as the crucifix, the cross, in religious life and pray using depictions of saints. They also venerate images and liturgical objects by kissing, bowing, and making the sign of the cross. They point to the Old Testament patterns of worship followed by the Hebrew people as examples of how certain places and things used ...
Iconolatry (Greek: εἰκών, eikon, 'picture or image', + λατρεία, latreia, 'veritable (full) worship or adoration') designates the idolatric worship or the adoration of icons. In the history of Christianity , iconolatry was mainly manifested in popular worship, as freedom of worship while others viewed it as superstitious belief in ...
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Jacob's Ladder from a Speculum of c. 1430, prefiguring the Ascension, right The Ascension from the same manuscript, see left. Danish Royal Library. The Speculum Humanae Salvationis or Mirror of Human Salvation was a bestselling, anonymously illustrated work of popular theology in the late Middle Ages, part of the genre of encyclopedic speculum literature, in this case concentrating on the ...