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added info re iconography in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2663, with link
===Ninth century===
===Ninth century===
In the year 843 icons and their veneration were restored on the first Sunday in Lent. This Sunday is referred to as the '''[["Sunday of Orthodoxy"]]'''.<ref>[http://www.goarch.org Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America]</ref>
In the year 843 icons and their veneration were restored on the first Sunday in [[Lent]]. This Sunday is referred to as the '''[["Sunday of Orthodoxy"]]'''.<ref>[http://www.goarch.org Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America]</ref>
===Sixteenth century===
===Sixteenth century===
===Seventeenth century===
===Seventeenth century===
Following the [[Protestant Reformation|Reformation]], [[Protestant]] and [[Puritan]] reformers in the 17th and 18th centuries (the 1600s and 1700s) also engaged in iconoclasm, believing religious imagery to be idolatrous and sinful, and a sure and certain evidence of [[apostasy]].
Following the [[Protestant Reformation|Reformation]], [[Protestant]] and [[Puritan]] reformers in the 17th and 18th centuries (the 1600s and 1700s) also engaged in iconoclasm, believing religious imagery to be idolatrous and sinful, and a sure and certain evidence of [[apostasy]].
==[[Catechism of the Catholic Church]]==
Iconography is an element in the prayer life of the Catholic Church according to the ''Cathechism of the Catholic Church'' (CCC), paragraph 2663<ref>From [http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p4s1c2a2.htm The Catechism of the Catholic Church, Part Four, Section One, Chapter 2, Article 2 2663-2682 (scborromeo)]</ref> "In the living tradition of prayer, each Church proposes to its faithful, according to its historic, social, and cultural context, a language for prayer: words, melodies, gestures, iconography."
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