Iconodules

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An Iconodule (Greek eikono-doulos "One who serves images"; also Iconodulist; abstract noun Iconodulism; also Iconophile) is someone who supports or is in favor of religious images, or icons, also known as Iconography, and is in opposition to an Iconoclast (someone against Iconography). The term is usually used in relation to the Iconoclasm controversy in Byzantine times; the most famous Iconodules of that time being Theodore the Studite and John of Damascus.

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