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Why Real Gold Is Indispensable in Sacred Art

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By Hilary White Verified
| The Sacred Images Project
I just plucked this image off Substack Notes, so I’m afraid I have no idea where it is, but it does illustrate what we’re talking about, doesn’t it. Real gold still jumps out when low light obscures mere pigment. Ancient cultures from Ireland to Egypt to Japan believed it had magical or spiritual properties and deep symbolic meaning. It looks like sunlight made solid. It never rusts, never tarnishes, never corrodes.
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The Saints Who Saved the Icons

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By Hilary White Verified
| The Sacred Images Project
St. Germanus, patriarch of Constantinople, stood up to an Emperor A glance at history will show us something we might today find rather shocking. Why did some Christians become willing to suffer exile, imprisonment and even death for painted images? Most Christians today take sacred images, (or what they think are sacred images) for granted. They’re just there, like the illustrations in your children’s picture bible.
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The Eye Is the Window of the Soul: the evil of "AI sacred art" is lying

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By Hilary White Verified
| The Sacred Images Project
I’m in a rage. Writing while you’re in a rage is always a bad idea. So, like Captain Kirk, I’m therefore going to do it anyway. Yesterday, the feast of the Martyrs of Compiègne, on Twitter, this priest (with a large following of the kind of Catholics who automatically answer “Amen,” with a praying hands emoji, to nearly everything) posted this: If you really need to assault your visual sensus fidelium, they can be found here.
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