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Thursday, October 28, 2021

Old Papal Profession Required Condemnation of Pope Honorius


Patrologia Latina, Volume 105, fol. 52, Liber Diurnus, Excerpt from the Profession of Faith required upon the Consecration of a new Bishop of Old Rome, used from the late 7th century until sometime in the 11th century:


"Auctores vero novi haeretici dogmatis Sergium, Pyrrhum, Paulum, et Petrum Constantinopolitanae, una cum Honorio, qui pravis eorum assertionibus, fomentum impendit."

"Also the authors of the new heretical dogmas: Sergius, Pyrrhus, Paul, and Peter of Constantinople, together with Honorius, who paid incentive to their depraved assertions."
https://books.google.com/books?id=sH_YAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

Additionally, Pope St. Leo II (+683), in a letter to the Emperor states:

"Anathematizamus--nec non et Honorium, qui hanc apostolicam ecclesiam non apostolicae traditionis doctrina lustravit, sed profana proditione immaculatam subvertere conatus est."

"We anathematize also even Honorius, who did not purify this Apostolic Church with the Doctrine of the Apostolic Tradition, but by wicked betrayal sought to subvert the Immaculate [Faith]." (Letter to Emperor Constantine IV, Patrologia Latina Volume 96, fol. 408)
https://books.google.com/books?
id=Ij18R__FCysC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

Processions with Sacred Images in 10th Century Monastery of Cluny, France

 


The late 10th century “Liber Tramitis”, describing the liturgical ordo of the great French monastery of Cluny speaks about the carrying of an icon of Our Lady holding Our Lord on the Feast of Purification [Hypapante]. They speak of a ‘tabula’, which is a flat board, on which, in this case, is painted Our Lady holding Our Lord. After the candles have been blessed before Mass, it says: 

The Cantor begins the Antiphon, 'A light for the revelation,' then he proceeds to say others when they gather, namely, "Hail, full of grace,' 'Do Thou adorn Thine Incense,' 'And he received.'  Also they [i.e. the monks] ought to receive the tabula to carry from the oratory, on which is depicted the image of Our Lord and His Mother.  For just as they venerate thus they are to return in order into the cloister, just as we explain thus [there follows an order of procession]..." [page 24] 


Likewise, in describing another processional, it states that on the Feast of the Apostles, the Procession is similar to that of the Nativity, except the special tabulam "wherein is affixed the image of Our Lord Jesus Christ and His Mother" is not carried in procession on the FEasts of the Apostles. [page 87]   


However, on the Feast of the Assumption [Dormition] four senior monks in sacred orders carry minor relics and also they "accept the tabulam with the image of Our Lord Jesus Christ and His Mother." [page 100]  

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Consuetudines_monasticae/mAg9AAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1


There certainly was liturgical usage for sacred images, specifically what we would clearly identify as flat-panel iconography [i.e. 'tabulam' means 'board', on which is depicted the Lord and His Mother], including veneration, in the Pre-Schism West.  Cluny was perhaps the largest and most prominent monastery in all of France, if not Western Europe in the 10th and early 11th centuries. 

 



Destruction of Ancient Spanish Churches by Muslims

 


What happened to all those many old Spanish churches built before the Islamic invasion of Iberia in 711, and even those built afterwards? Well, most of them were destroyed by Muhammad I of Cordoba upon becoming the Muslim ruler in 852. St. Eulogius of Cordoba (+859) explains:


"Though the prince's (Muhammad I's) fierce conspiracy against God's Flock was growing and he was afflicting Christians everywhere and with greater frequency even so not everyone was rushing to his rite [i.e. Islam] as part of a more widespread collapse as he thought they would. So he ordered churches of more recent construction to be destroyed, and commanded that whatever stood out in the way of new adornments on the old churches---that is, anything that had been added to the basic structure of the old churches during the time of the Arabs--be dismantled. Seizing this opportunity, the satraps of hell undermined the roofs of temples that had, in fact, been erected in the time of peace by the zeal and industry of our fathers, [thus destroying some] nearly three hundred years after their foundation."
[Chapter 3, Book III, Memorial Sanctorum, by St. Eulogius of Cordoba]

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