Sentences with 'icons'
Example sentences and phrases with the word icons and other words derived from it.
• « Byzantine icons were beautifully crafted and, in a largely illiterate society, were vitally important in the daily experience of most Christians. »
• « Frankly, there is no doubt that thousands of believers treated the icons as idols, as objects with power for themselves, as relics. »
• « The official ban on icons lasted until 843, more than a century, before the emperors reversed it (it was an empress, named Theodora after Justinian's famous wife centuries earlier, who led the charge to officially restore the icons). »
• « Small candles flicker in front of old icons hanging on the walls, and candles fill the air with the scent of honey. »