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THE WEST AND THE DOGMA OF

Virgin Byzantine glass mosaic
on the vault of the church of Murano (I), 13 ° S.

In the West, about the pictures, the Council of Trent (1542) highlights the history, the memory, but clearly not epiphanic, placing itself outside the context of the sacramental presence as recognized in the East. He said all the Catholic dogmas, but facing the reform necessarily iconoclastic, he rejected the dogma iconographic, already abandoned by the West after the VIIth Council (787).

But it is symptomatic of the iconographic approach to the mystery that Bernadette Soubirous asked to select an album image that most closely resembled his vision, has stopped without hesitation on a Byzantine icon of the Virgin, painted XI century ...

Paul Evdokimov, an Orthodox theologian in
" The Art of the Icon, Theology of the presence "