'Why do you bend your body, held captive before silly statues and earthly pictures? God made you upright': Claudius of Turin's iconoclasm

Claudius of Turin was one of those 9th-century Catholic bishops who stood behind Byzantine iconoclasts and attempted to introduce their ideas into the Western Church. In his 'Apologeticum', Claudius condemns two sets of ideas: the cult of images and pilgrimage to Rome (perhaps any pilgrimage, as Claudius' ideas reach out to any form of sanctification th…