He Forbids His Likeness in Idol Temples

The Life of Constantine

Book 4

He Forbids His Likeness in Idol Temples

In this way he showed himself, even in painting, as constantly engaged in prayer to God. At the same time he forbade, by an explicit law, the setting up of any likeness of himself in any idol temple, so that not even the bare outline of his person might be defiled by the error of forbidden superstition.