The pope [Gregory III] made a
decree in the council that if anyone, in the future, should condemn those who
hold to the old custom of the apostolic church and should oppose the veneration
of the holy images, and should remove, destroy, profane, or blaspheme against
the holy images of God, or of our Lord Jesus Christ, or of his mother, the immaculate
and glorious Virgin Mary, or of the apostles, or of any of the saints, he
should be cut off from the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. And all the
clergy present solemnly signed this decree. (“Gregory III Excommunicates All
Iconoclasts, 731 A.D.,” in A Source Book for Medieval History: Selected
Documents Illustrating the History of Europe in the Middle Ages, ed. Oliver
J. Thatcher and Edgar Holmes McNeal [New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1905], 101)
