After beginning with sermons against icons and then ordering the destruction of the prominent golden icon of Christ at the Chalke Gate, Leo III issued a formal edict declaring that all holy images were to be destroyed. This caused an open breach between the eastern and western churches and triggered widespread riots across the empire.
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Episode 11 (5 mentions)
After beginning with sermons against icons and then ordering the destruction of the prominent golden icon of Christ at the Chalke Gate, Leo III issued a formal edict declaring that all holy images were to be destroyed. This caused an open breach between the eastern and western churches and triggered widespread riots across the empire.
“The controversy came to be called iconoclasm, or literally the destruction of icons, and”
“While the empire had been preoccupied with iconoclasm, its enemies had made massive”
“Iconoclasm smoldered on for another forty years, finally expiring during the reign”
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