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Whiles these tragedies about Images were thus in working in Greece, the same question of the use of images in churches began to be moved in Spain also. And at Eliberi, a noble city, now called Granate, was a council of Spanish Bishops ¹and other learned men assembled, and there, after long deliberation and debating of the matter, it was concluded at length of the whole council after this sort, in the 36. article.

Whyles these tragidies about Images were thus in workyng in Grece, the same question of ye vse of images in churches began to be moued in Spaine also. And at Eliberi, a noble citie, nowe called Granate, was a councel of Spanishe Byshoppes ¹and other learned men assembled, and there, after long deliberation and debating of the matter, it was concluded at length of the whole councell after this sort, in the 36. article.

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We think that pictures ought not to be in Churches, least that which is honoured or worshipped ¹be painted on walls. And in the. xli. ⟨p. 75⟩Canon of that council it is thus written: We thought good to admonish the faithful, that as much as in them lieth, they suffer no images to be in their houses, but if they fear any violence of their servants, at the least let them keep themselves clean and pure from images, if they do not so, let them be accounted as none of the Church. Note here I pray you, how a whole and great country in the West & South parts of Europe, nearer to Rome a great deal then to Greece in situation of place, do agree with the Greeks against images, and do not only forbid them in churches, but also in private houses, and do excommunicate them that do the contrary: and another council of the learned men of all Spain also, called Concilium Toletanum