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 practice of venerating images, which was widely criticized during the iconoclastic controversy, was eventually recognized as legitimate by the Second General Council of Nicaea (787), allowing their use again. Later on, however, a different development led to the condemnation of the practice of worshipping lights themselves and having other lights burned before them by the Synod of Noyon in 1344.