eliberine

Updated: May 19, 2025

Call ye this trusting to antiquity, when ye rent in pieces, keep back, maim, and burn the ancient fathers' works? It is a world to see, how well-favouredly and how towardly touching religion these men agree with the fathers of whom they use to vaunt that they be their own good. The old Council Eliberine made a decree that nothing that is honoured of the people should be painted in the churches.

John Jewel - The Apology of the Church of England