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IMAGES life, and to be glorified are to be venerated by the reposed in images, as was of old done by the Gentiles stowed by God on men ; so that they who affirm that and retained particularly in temples, and that due who placed their hope in idols ; but because the honour Mother of God, and of the other saints are to be had living members of Christ and the temple of the Holy images which wo kiss, and before which we uncover faithful; through which bodies many benefits are be- dedicated to the memories of the saints are in vain visited with the view of obtaining their aid, are wholly VENERATION OF RELICS AND IMAGES 81 uselessly honoured by the faithful, and that the places honour and veneration are to be given them ; not that condemned, and now also condemns them. any divinity, or virtue, is believed to be in them, on which is shown them is referred to the prototypes which anything is to be asked of them ; or that trust is to be account of which they are to be worshipped ; or that Spirit, and which are by him to be raised unto eternal veneration and honour are not due to the relics of to be condemned, as the Church has already long since those images represent ; in such wise that by the Moreover, that the images of Christ, of the Virgin saints, or that these and other sacred monuments are the head and prostrate ourselves, we adore Christ ;