"If the Apostles and martyrs, while still living on earth, could pray for other men, how much more may they do it after their victories?
Have they less power now that they are with Jesus Christ?"
As to the veneration of relics, he declared:
"We do not worship the relics of the martyrs, but honor them in our worship of Him whose martyrs they are. We honor the servants in order that the respect paid to them may be reflected back to the Lord."
Honoring them, he said, was not idolatry because no Christian had ever adored the martyrs as gods; on the other hand, they pray for us.
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