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The veneration of Mary was allowed by church councils from early on, but it was not very long before there were attempts to ban religious images as objects of veneration.  Thus, there was an acknowledgment of excess as well as a clinging to this type of piety. Eucumenical Church Councils The initial Council of JerusalemContinue reading “#17 Allowing and Banning of Religious Images in Church Councils”