4 sentences with “icons”

Small candles flicker in front of old icons hanging on the walls, and candles fill the air with the scent of honey.

Frankly, there is no doubt that thousands of believers treated the icons as idols, as objects with power for themselves, as relics.

Byzantine icons were beautifully crafted and, in a largely illiterate society, were vitally important in the daily experience of most Christians.

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).