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“The column in the Piazza celebrates the famous icon of the Virgin Mary in the Pauline chapel of the Basilica. It is known as Salus Populi Romani, or Health of the Roman People, due to a miracle in which the icon helped keep plague from the city. The icon is at least a thousand years old, and tradition holds that it was painted from life by St. Luke the Evangelist. “
reference: wikipedia.org
how true is this? st luke painted that image and used in worship?
That picture is nasty… and it is not Mary. Idolotry and images came into the church through the Roman Catholic system.. At the time of Constantine, there was another popular religion; mithraism. {look it up} If you look into the roots of catholic idols, you will find that they existed long before the catholic church and that they were just re-named. There is a lot that could be said about this, but it is better for one to find it for himself (or herself). For example, there is a statue of “Peter” at St Peters Basillica, whose feet have been worn from being kissed. Dig a little deeper and you will find that the statue is of Zeus, renamed “Peter” when RCC became populized and enforced.
As for the dolls, pictures, mirrors, ect… I will not tell you to go against your conscience. I will say that Babylon is everywhere- even in our language. For example, the days of the week are named after gods: Moonday, Thor's day, Fria day, Saturn day, Sun (god/ sun worship) day. Are we to not use the names of days?
Something to think about-
we can have traditions or not have them; we can abstain from dolls or not abstain from them, but if we are not walking in righteousness and turning away from sin and having a real, intimate, personal relationship with our Father through our Savior, then what is the point?
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