This latter practice, hotly denounced as idolatry during the iconoclastic controversy, was finally established as orthodox by the Second General Council of Nicaea (787), which restored the use of images. A later development, however, by which certain lights themselves came to be regarded as objects of worship and to have other lights burned before them, was condemned as idolatrous by the Synod of Noyon in 1344.
The use of images in religious practices was initially controversial but eventually accepted as legitimate by the Second General Council of Nicaea (787). Later, however, a different practice involving lights being worshipped and burned before them was condemned as idolatrous by the Synod of Noyon in 1344.